geog2001 geographies of food security semester...

Unit study package code: GEOG2001

Mode of study: Fully Online

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Credit Value: 25.0

Pre-requisite units: Nil

Co-requisite units: Nil

Anti-requisite units: 314939 (v.1) Geographies of Food Security 514

Result type: Grade/Mark

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Unit coordinator:

Title: DrName: Tod JonesPhone: +618 9266 4709Email: [email protected]: Building: 201 - Room: 612

Teaching Staff:

Name: Sudeep ThingPhone: +618 9266 2713Email: [email protected]: Building: 201 - Room: 614D

Administrative contact: Name: Dean JohnsonPhone: +618 9266 4023Email: [email protected]: Building: 201 - Room: 320

Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au)

Unit Outline

GEOG2001 Geographies of Food Security Semester 1, 2016

Faculty of Humanities Department of Planning and Geography

GEOG2001 Geographies of Food Security Bentley Campus 24 Feb 2016 Department of Planning and Geography, Faculty of Humanities

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Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present.

Syllabus This unit will provide an insight into the global food situation and the challenge to increase food production given the contexts of population growth and increased competition over access to resources. A range of topics will be examined through case studies from Australia and its region. These case studies will highlight the linkages between urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes, economies and societies.

Introduction This unit analyses food, an essential part of life and politics. As Berthold Brecht has written, “Food first, then morality.” The unit provides insights into global food production systems, the challenges of ensuring that we all have access to enough safe and appropriate food, and how all this relates to the kind of communities we currently live in, and want to create in the future. We look at a variety of issues and case studies, from the impacts of global trade, to urbanisation, to the challenges of climate change. Case studies include the challenges facing oil palm farmers in Papua New Guinea and challenges facing Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Nepal, to the dynamics and impacts of urban foo. Students will learn about food security and food sovereignty, how to analyse both immediate and structural causes of food insecurity, and be challenged to think about the ethical and political implications of what we choose to have on our plates.

Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine graduate attributes during their course of study. These tell an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers say would be useful in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the graduate attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes tell you what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your achievement of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.

Your course has been designed so that on graduating we can say you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning process in each unit.

Curtin's Graduate Attributes

On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed

1 Examine the geographical principles of sustainable environments

2 Identify and evaluate key issues relating to the global food situation and the challenges to increase food production

3 Evaluate adaptation strategies to address the challenges of food security

4 Develop skills in the interpretation, presentation and analysis of data

Apply discipline knowledge Thinking skills (use analytical skills to solve problems)

Information skills (confidence to investigate new ideas)

Communication skills Technology skillsLearning how to learn (apply principles learnt to new situations) (confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems)

International perspective (value the perspectives of others)

Cultural understanding (value the perspectives of others)

Professional Skills (work independently and as a team) (plan own work)

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Learning Activities

1. Key concepts in food security and this unit

This week provides an introduction to food securities and looks at what we will be covering during the semester. It introduces:

l A brief history: from the green revolution to the 2008 food crises l An introduction to proximate and structural causes; l Food security vs. food sovereignty; l The critical concept of political ecology; and l The different dimensions of food security that we will examine this semester;

Preparation for next week: measure your calories for a single day using an app like “Easydiet diary” or “MyFitnessPal”.

Required reading:

l Lawrence, G., Lyons, K., & Wallington, T. 2011. Introduction: food security, nutrition and sustainability in a globalized world. In G. Lawrence, K. Lyons & T. Wallington (Eds.), Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability. London: Taylor and Francis: 1-15 (not all of chapter). https://link.library.curtin.edu.au/cgi-bin/gw?url=http://CURTIN.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=483775

l Robbins, P. 2012. Political ecology : a critical introduction. Chichester & Malden, Mass.: J. Wiley & Sons 23-36. https://link.library.curtin.edu.au/gw?url=&url=http://curtin.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=822568

l The Forum for Food Sovereignty (Producer). (2007, 13 May 2014). Declaration of Nyéléni. Retrieved from http://www.nyeleni.org/spip.php?article290

l Ockham’s Razor on Radio National—talk by Professor Mark Wahlqvist: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/the-foresight-saga/4491164

Further reading:

l Young, E. M. 2012. Food and development. Oxon and New York: Routledge: chapter 1. l Brown, L. R. 2012. Full planet, empty plates : the new geopolitics of food scarcity. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. l Pollan, M. 2007. Unhappy Meals. The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?_r=2&





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2. Introduction to the concept, dimensions and measurements of food security

This week unpacks the concept of ‘food security’ and analyses some of its different dimensions. It covers:

l What is food security? l Measuring food security l Poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity l Food security in the developing and developed world

Required reading:

l Pinstrup-Andersen, P. 2009. "Food Security: Definition and Measurement." Food Security 1: 5 -7. l FAO. 2015. The State of Food Insecurity in the World. Rome. www.fao.org/3/a-i4646e.pdf Pages 8 – 17.

Further reading:

l FAO. 2008. Impacts on Poverty and Food Security. FAO. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DLyYXUIN1cIJ:ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011../i0100e/i0100e06.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a.

l Gibson, Mark. The Feeding of Nations : Re-Defining Food Security for the 21st Century / Mark Gibson. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012.

l International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. 2006. How to Conduct a Food Security Assessment: A Step-by-Step Guide for National Societies in Africa. Geneva. http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Publications/disasters/food_security/fs-assessment.pdf

l Lawrence, Geoffrey, K. Lyons, and T. Wallington. Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability. London: Taylor and Francis, 2011.

l Martin, W. "Food Security and Poverty: A Precarious Balance." The World Bank Group, 2010. l Peacock, K. W. Food Security. Edited by Mary K. Hendrickson. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2011.





http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4646e.pdf

3. Scale and Food Security

This unit provides a more detailed analysis of proximate and structural causes of food (in)security, and provides an overview of the key players at the different scales of the global food production and consumption system. It also looks at the relationships between scales and some of the key players.

l The definition of structural and proximate causes and an introduction to the concepts of structure and agency l The historical relations between locations, populations and relevant food security issues l The key stakeholders and stakeholder types at global, national, regional and local scales. l The influence of overlapping scales and causes of food security and the livelihoods of individuals

Required reading

l Young, E. M. 2012. Young Food and Development New York : Routledge, pp.69-95 (chapter 3).

Further reading:

l The Power of Community. How Cuba Survived Peak Oil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUWces5TkCA l Shiva,Vandana 1991, The Green Revolution in the Punjab. The Ecologist, March-April, Vol.21(2), p.57(4), 57-61. l Melillo, E. D. 2012. The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Trade, 1840–1930.

The American Historical Review, 117(4), 1028-1060. doi: 10.1093/ahr/117.4.1028





4. Population Growth, Settlement Patterns and Urbanization

This week investigates the challenges presented by global population growth and urbanization trends. It covers:

l History of population growth l Demographic Transition; l The implications of urbanisation for food security. l A critical appraisal of Malthusian population theory;

Required Reading:

l Popkin, B. M. 2004. The nutrition transition in developing countries. In S. Maxwell & R. Slater (Eds.), Food policy: old and new (43-56). Oxford: Blackwell.

l McKenzie, F. M. H. 2013. Food security in a two speed economy: horticultural production in Western Australia. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future (339-352). Boston, MA: Springer.

l Szabo, S. 2016. Urbanisation and Inequalities in a Post-Malthusian Context: Challenges for the Sustainable Development Agenda. Cham: Springer, 29-55.

Other reading:

l Morgan, K. 2015. "Nourishing the City: The Rise of the Urban Food Question in the Global North." Urban Studies 52 (8): 1379-1394. doi: 10.1177/0042098014534902.

l Dyson, T. 2010. Population and Development, London, Zed Books. l Gallaher, C., Kerr, J., Njenga, M., Karanja, N., & WinklerPrins, A. 2013. Urban agriculture, social capital, and food security in

the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Journal of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, 30(3): 389-404. https://link.library.curtin.edu.au/gw?url=&url=http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-013-9425-y

l Gibson, M. 2012. The Feeding of Nations : Re-defining food security for the 21st century Boca Raton, CRC Press. l Goldstone, J. A. 2010. The New Population Bomb. Foreign Affairs, 89, 31 - 43. l Guilin, L., Ying, Z. & Shenghui, C. 2013. Effects of urbanization on arable land requirements in China, based on food

consumption patterns. Food Security, 439–449. l Hazell, P. 2002. Green Revolution: Curse or blessing?, Washington, IFPRI. l Jain, H. K. 2010. The Green Revolution: History, Impact and Future, New Delhi Studium Press. l Kemp, D. 2004. Exploring Environmental Issues : An integrated approach London, Routledge. l Ladner, P. 2011. The Urban Food Revolution : Changing the Way We Feed Cities. New York: New Society Publishers. l Reeves, T. 2009. A Sustainable Green Revolution for Global Food Security. Marcus Oldham. l Runge, C. F. & Runge, C. P. 2010. Against the Grain: Why failing to complete the green revolution could bring the next

famine. Foreign Affairs, 89, 8 - 14. l Soby, S. D. 2013. The End of the Green Revolution. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26, 537-546.





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5. Tuition free week

6. Food insecurity, conflict and aid

This week reviews food security issues related both natural disasters and conflicts.

l Examine case studies of natural disasters; l Explore concepts of risk management and response; and l Examine case studies that explore the relationship between food security and conflicts—food scarcity as both cause and

consequence. l The politics of food aid

Required readings:

l Messer, E. & Cohen, M. J. 2007. Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization. Food, Culture and Society, 10, 297 - 315. l Clay, E. J. 2004. Responding to Change: WFP and the global food aid system. In: Maxwell, S. & Slater, R. (eds.) Food

policy : old and new. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. l Rashmee Roshan Lall. 2014. The west's peanut butter bias chokes Haiti's attempts to feed itself. The Guardian Online 10

July: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/10/haiti-peanut-butter-food-aid-malnutrition

Further reading:

l 2005. Special Issue: Food security in complex emergencies. Disasters, 29, 1 - 113. l Gibson, M. 2012. The Feeding of Nations : Re-defining food security for the 21st century Boca Raton, CRC Press.

l Section 4.3.4 - Stability l Section 19.6.2 – War/conflict and social displacement

l Messer, E. & Cohen, M. J. 2007. Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization. Food, Culture and Society, 10, 297 - 315. l Peacock, K. W. 2011. Food Security, New York, Infobase p. 34-35 l Young, E. M. 2012. Food and development. Oxon and New York: Routledge: chapter 8 “Conflict and hunger”.

On food aid:

l Holt-Gimenez, E. 2012. Food Rebellions : Crisis and the hunger for justice, New l Tusiime, H. A., Renard, R. & Smets, L. 2013. Food aid and household food security in a conflict situation: Empirical evidence

from Northern Uganda. Food Policy, 43, 14-22. l York, Food First Books. Chapter 7, p. 145 – 153.

On economic sanctions:

l Koc, M., Das, R. & Jernigan, C. 2007. Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Iraq: The Impact of War and Sanctions on the Civilian Population. Food, Culture and Society, 10, 317 - 348.





http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/10/haiti-peanut-butter-food-aid-malnutrition

7. Environmental Challenges: Climate Change, Water Availability and adaptation

The first part of this week explains the changes that are predicted for climate change and water availability to food production. This second part investigates how companies, governments, organisations and individuals are addressing or not addressing water scarcity with a focus on Australia, and some examples from overseas. In particular, we will focus on Western Australia’s response to changing rainfall patterns. In particular, it presents:

l Ecosystems, climate change and food security; l An overview of the causes of climate change; l An understanding of the language of prediction and risk assessment; l A focus on its impacts on water availability globally and the different distribution of the impacts; l An assessment of the impacts on developed and developing countries; l Issues of scale in the responses to water scarcity in Australia.

Required readings:

l Gonzalez, C. G. 2011. Climate Change, Food Security and Agrobiodiversity: Toward a just, resilient and sustainable food system. Fordham Environmental Law Review, 22, 493 - 522.

l Walker, B., & Salt, D. 2006. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Washington DC: Island Press: chapter 2 (28-38).

Other reading:

l Ajambo, E. & Synnevag, G. 2011. Women: Key to food security and climate change. Appropriate Technology, 38, 40 - 42. l CSIRO, & Bureau of Meteorology. 2014. State of the climate 2014. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia. l Department of the Environment information: http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/climate-science/climate-

change-impacts/western-australia

http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/

l Ingram, J. S. I., Ericksen, P., & Liverman, D. (Eds.). 2010. Food security and global environmental change. London: Earthscan: chapter 1.

l Lal, R., Stewart, B. A., Uphoff, N. & Hansen, D. O. (eds.) 2005. Climate change and global food security, Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis.

l Lobell, D. & Burke, M. (eds.) 2010. Climate Change and Food Security : Adapting agriculture to a warmer world Dordrecht: Springer.

l Parry, M. L., Canziani, O. F., Palutikof, J. P., van der Linden, P. J., & Hanson, C. E. (Eds.). 2007. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press: chapter 5. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/

l Pittock, A. B. 2009. Climate change: the science, impacts and solutions. Melbourne: CSIRO: 226-36, 284-89 (Australia and New Zealand). [available as ebook through the library].





http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/climate-science/climate-change-impacts/western-australia



https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/

8. Tuition free week

9. Geographies of food consumption

This lecture examines the geographical dimensions of malnutrition, understood as both undernutrition (not enough to eat) and overnutrition (eating too much leading to obesity and related illnesses). In covers:

l Critical understanding of global patterns and geography of malnutrition l Understand global patterns and shifts in food consumption and implications l Familiarity with key global facts of malnutrition l Critically insights into proximate and structural causes of malnutrition

Required reading:

l McMillan, T. 2014. The New Face of Hunger. National Geographic, 226(2): 66-68,70,72-74,77-80,83-89. http://search.proquest.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/docview/1554511836

l Friel, S., & Lichacz, W. (2011). Unequal food systems, unhealthy diets. In G. Lawrence, K. Lyons & T. Wallington (Eds.), Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability (pp.111-125). London: Taylor and Francis.

l Keats, S., & Wiggins, S. (2014). Future diets: Implications for agriculture and food prices. UK: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). [Executive Summary]

Further reading:

l Joosse, S. & Hracs, B.J.. 2015. "Curating the Quest for ‘Good Food’: The Practices, Spatial Dynamics and Influence of Food-Related Curation in Sweden." Geoforum. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.024.

l FAO. 2015. The State of Food Insecurity in the World. Rome. www.fao.org/3/a-i4646e.pdf l Farmar-Bowers, Q., Higgins, V., & Millar, J. (2013). Introduction. In Food Security in Australia: Challenges and Prospects for

the Future. Boston, MA: Springer. [Chapter 1: Introduction, pp.1-17] l Self control in an age of excess:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/self-control-in-an-age-of-excess/3005468 l Food labelling wars:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2014-03-30/5350092





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http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4646e.pdf

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10. Global Food Networks, Supply Chains and Integration

This week overviews the historical development of global food networks and how these have changed in the last three decades. Particular attention is given to Australia’s position within the global supply, distribution and consumption networks. It also looks at the drivers of vertical integration and the risks and opportunities it generates for different groups.

l The structural aspects of global food systems, markets and their effects on local social and ecological systems. l The role of transnational corporation (TNCs), vertical integration, horizontal integration and monopolies. l How concepts of food security and food sovereignty correspond to different types of development. l The politics behind genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Required reading

l Young, E. M. 2012. Food and development. Oxon and New York: Routledge: 342-77 (chapter 9). l Supermarket price wars:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/whos-winning-the-supermarket-discounting-wars/3584608

Further Reading

l Friel, S., Gleeson, D., Thow, A.-M., Labonte, R., Stuckler, D., Kay, A., & Snowdon, W. (2013). A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement. Globalization and Health, 9(1), 46.

l Milk price wars: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2013-03-24/4582278

l Ruben, R., Slingerland, M., & Nijhoff, H. 2006. Agro-food chains and networks for development. In R. Ruben, M. Slingerland & H. Nijhoff (Eds.), The agro-food chains and networks for development (1-25). Dordrecht: Springer.

l Stamm, Andreas. 2008 Agribusiness and Poverty Reduction: What Can be Learned from the Value Chain Approach? In Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks C. Stringer & R. Le Heron (Eds.) Aldershot: Ashgate.

l Coates, L. 2013. How do you eat the elephant in the room? Agri-food sustainability and King Island. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future (25-38). Boston, MA: Springer.





http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/whos-winning-the-supermarket-discounting-wars/3584608


11. Food Safety: protecting populations and controlling markets and indigenous peoples’ food security

This week examines issues of food safety. Following from Week 9’s discussion of changes in the food distribution systems and the amount of food moving huge distances, this week we look at the implications of the regulation of food to ensure that it is safe for human consumption, the multiple ways that food and beverages are regulated (alcohol in particular), and the tradeoffs between food safety and trade, in particular how it effects different places and groups (producers, middle men, consumers, those in proximity).

In this week we will explore food security issues of two Indigenous peoples in two different countries. We will first venture into the experiences of a poor indigenous minority group called Sonaha from Nepal who are still struggling for formal recognition from the state as indigenous peoples and contesting conservation regime. We will then explore issues of aboriginal peoples in remote areas of Australia. This week covers:

l Nature conservation, national park and Sonaha indigenous peoples l Aboriginal peoples in remote Australia and food insecurities l Current scenario and some evidences l What are factors/facets of food insecurity of remote aboriginal population? l Crafting interventions and solutions

Required reading:

l Watson, M., & Meah, A. 2012. Food, waste and safety: negotiating conflicting social anxieties into the practices of domestic provisioning. The Sociological Review, 60: 102-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12040

l Brimblecombe, J., Maypilama, E., Colles, S., Scarlett, M., Dhurrkay, J. G., Ritchie, J., & O’Dea, K. (2014). Factors Influencing Food Choice in an Australian Aboriginal Community. Qualitative Health Research, 24(3), 387-400.

Further reading (food safety):

l Lam, H.-M., Remais, J., Fung, M.-C., Xu, L., & Sun, S. S.-M. 2013. Food supply and food safety issues in China. The Lancet, 381(9882): 2044-2053. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1365665642?accountid=10382

l Ghosh, D. 2014. Food safety regulations in Australia and New Zealand Food Standards. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 94(10): 1970-1973. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/doi/10.1002/jsfa.2014.94.issue-10/issuetoc

l Radio National Curse of the Frankenfoods http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/past-programs/subjects/index=food-safety

l 2014 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture special issue on the Global Harmonisation Initiative (for food regulation. 94(10). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/doi/10.1002/jsfa.2014.94.issue-10/issuetoc

l Devaney, L. 2013. Spaces of security, surveillance and food safety: interrogating perceptions of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's governing technologies, power and performance. The Geographical Journal, 179(4): 320-330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12001

l Worosz, M. R., Knight, A. J., Harris, C. K., & Conner, D. S. 2008. Barriers to entry into the specialty red meat sector: the role of food safety regulation. Southern Rural Sociology, 23(1): 170-207. http://search.proquest.com/docview/213103530?accountid=10382

l Talbot, D. 2007. Regulating the Night : Race, Culture and Exclusion in the Making of the Night-time Economy. Farnham: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

l Holloway, S. L., Valentine, G., & Jayne, M. 2009. Masculinities, femininities and the geographies of public and private drinking landscapes. Geoforum, 40(5): 821-831.

l Duff, C. 2012. Accounting for context: exploring the role of objects and spaces in the consumption of alcohol and other drugs. Social & Cultural Geography, 13(2): 145-159.





http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12040

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/doi/10.1002/jsfa.2014.94.issue-10/issuetoc

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/past-programs/subjects/index=food-safety

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.dbgw.lis.curtin.edu.au/doi/10.1002/jsfa.2014.94.issue-10/issuetoc

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12001

http://search.proquest.com/docview/213103530?accountid=10382

Further material (indigenous peoples’ food security):

l Pollard, C. (2013). Selecting interventions for food security in remote Indigenous communities. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia: Challenges and Prospects for the Future (97-112). Boston, MA: Springer.

l Robbins, P. 2012. Political ecology : a critical introduction. Chichester & Malden, Mass.: J. Wiley & Sons: chapter 9 “Conservation and control” pp.176-98.

l Adams, K., Burns, C., Liebzeit, A., Ryschka, J., Thorpe, S., & Browne, J. 2012. Use of participatory research and photo-voice to support urban Aboriginal healthy eating. Health & Social Care in the Community, 20(5): 497-505.

l Pollard, C. 2013. Selecting interventions for food security in remote Indigenous communities. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future (97-112). Boston, MA: Springer.

l Scelza, B. A. 2012. Food scarcity, not economic constraint limits consumption in a rural Aboriginal community. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 20(3): 108-112.

l http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/ l http://www.justconservation.org/ l http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/





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http://www.justconservation.org/

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12. Urban Agriculture and farmers markets

Urban agriculture covers a diverse range of food practices in urban spaces. Urban agriculture is positioned in response to industrial agriculture and urbanization, which advocates argue separates populations from food and the people who grow it. Urban agriculture is an attempt to bridge the divide between urban consumers of food and the rural producers, while also providing an alternative to large industrial and commercial practices. These positions on urban agriculture bring food sovereignty perspectives into urban environments, including Australia’s cities. This week addresses:

l Urban Agriculture and the Environment: Population bomb, peak oil and climate change l Politics of Urban Agriculture: ‘Big Food’, supermarkets and food sovereignty l Identity and Urban Agriculture: Local, ethical and social consumption l Case Study: Redfern and Eveleigh Farmers’ Market

Required reading

l Zitcer, A. 2015. Food Co-ops and the Paradox of Exclusivity. Antipode, 47(3): 812-828. l Peter Hartcher ‘A new food crisis on our plates’ (http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/a-new-food-

crisis-is-on-our-plates-20110221-1b2f3.html) l Wood, Stephanie. 2012. There goes the neighbourhood. The Sydney Morning Herald,

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/there-goes-the-neighbourhood-20120827-24vnk.html

Further Reading

l Ramírez, M. M. 2015. The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces. Antipode, 47(3): 748-769. l Guthman, Julie. 2008. "“If they only knew”: color blindness and universalism in California alternative food institutions." The

Professional Geographer no. 60 (3):387-397. l Mayes, Christopher. 2014. "An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted

History." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics no. 27 (2):265-286. doi: 10.1007/s10806-013-9463-x l Knowd, Ian, David Mason, and Andrew Docking. 2005. "Urban Agriculture: The New Frontier." City no. 23:1





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http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/there-goes-the-neighbourhood-20120827-24vnk.html

13. Sustainable livelihoods case study: small holder settlers in Papua New Guinea

This week introduces a powerful framework for analyzing food security choices, and issues of poverty more generally: the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA). It covers:

l Issues of structure and agency; l The concept of sustainable livelihoods l Sustainable livelihoods framework and its various components l Critiques of the framework and its approaches in practice.

It explores the SLA through the case of small land holders in PNG in the global food network and the opportunities and vulnerabilities presented by this form of production. It is based on the research of two Curtin researchers who have worked in Papua New Guinea for many years: Prof. George Curry and Dr. Gina Koczberski. This week covers:

l Strengthening livelihoods for food security among cocoa and oil palm farming communities in Papua New Guinea l Strengthening smallholder livelihoods and food security: strategies from the oil palm sector, Papua New Guinea l Assessing the status of food security among cocoa and oil palm households.

Required reading:

l DFID. (1999). Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets. London: United Kingdom DFID Department for International Development (DFID). Retrieved from http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/0901/section2.pdf

l Curry, G., Koczberski, G., Omuru, E., & Nailina, R. (2007). Farming or Foraging? Household Labour and Livelihood Strategies amongst Smallholder Cocoa Growers in Papua New Guinea. Perth: Black Swan Press. Chapter 1: Introduction, page 1-5. Retrieved from: http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1431406969969~955&usePid1=true&usePid2=true

l Koczberski, G., Curry, G. N., & Blue, V. 2012. Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 53(3): 288-299.

Further reading:

l Rigg, J. (2007). An Everyday Geography of the Global South. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis: (Chapter 2 Structure and agency).

l Scoones, I. (2009). Livelihoods perspectives and rural development. Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(1): 171-196. l Curry, G., Koczberski, G., Omuru, E., & Nailina, R. (2007). Farming or Foraging? Household Labour and Livelihood

Strategies amongst Smallholder Cocoa Growers in Papua New Guinea. Perth: Black Swan Press. l Curry, G., Koczberski, G., Lummani, J., Ryan, S., & Bue, V. (2012). Earning a Living in PNG: From Subsistence to a Cash

Economy. In M. Robertson (Ed.), Schooling for Sustainable Development: (Vol. 3, pp. 159-184), Netherlands: Springer. l Koczberski, G., & Curry, G. N. 2005. Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm

settlers in Papua New Guinea. Agricultural Systems, 85(3): 324-339.





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Week 14: Geography Quiz II: Food Fight

Time for the next round of competitive quiz training, this time with a food security focus. There will be bragging rights and prizes.

Learning Resources Library Reserve

There are resources for this unit in the library Reserve collection. To access these resources, please click on the following link:

http://link.library.curtin.edu.au/primo/course?GEOG2001

Online resources

l There is no need to purchase any books for this unit. However, if you choose to buy a book to assist your studies, I recommend an excellent book written by a geographer who takes a critical approach to issues of food production, distribution, sovereignty and security:

Young, E. M. 2012. Food and development. Oxon and New York: Routledge. (https://link.library.curtin.edu.au/gw?url=&url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=456069 )

(ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-415--49800-5)

Other resources

l 2005. Special Issue: Food security in complex emergencies. Disasters, 29, 1 - 113.

l Ajambo, E. & Synnevag, G. 2011. Women: Key to food security and climate change. Appropriate Technology, 38, 40 - 42.

l Brimblecombe, J., Maypilama, E., Colles, S., Scarlett, M., Dhurrkay, J. G., Ritchie, J., & O’Dea, K. (2014). Factors Influencing Food Choice in an Australian Aboriginal Community. Qualitative Health Research, 24(3), 387-400.

l Brown, L. R. 2012. Full planet, empty plates : the new geopolitics of food scarcity. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

l Clay, E. J. 2004. Responding to Change: WFP and the global food aid system. In: Maxwell, S. & Slater, R. (eds.) Food policy : old and new. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing

l Coates, L. 2013. How do you eat the elephant in the room? Agri-food sustainability and King Island. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future (25-38). Boston, MA: Springer.

l CSIRO, & Bureau of Meteorology. 2014. State of the climate 2014. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.

l Curry, G., Koczberski, G., Lummani, J., Ryan, S., & Bue, V. (2012). Earning a Living in PNG: From Subsistence to a Cash Economy. In M. Robertson (Ed.), Schooling for Sustainable Development: (Vol. 3, pp. 159-184), Netherlands: Springer.

l Curry, G., Koczberski, G., Omuru, E., & Nailina, R. (2007). Farming or Foraging? Household Labour and Livelihood Strategies amongst Smallholder Cocoa Growers in Papua New Guinea. Perth: Black Swan Press.

l DFID. (1999). Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets. London: United Kingdom DFID Department for International Development (DFID). Retrieved from http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/0901/section2.pdf

l Dyson, T. 2010. Population and Development, London, Zed Books.

l FAO, IFAD and WFP. (2013). The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013: the multiple dimensions of food security. Rome, FAO. [Executive Summary]

l FAO. 2008. Impacts on Poverty and Food Security. FAO. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DLyYXUIN1cIJ:ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011../i0100e/i0100e06.pdf+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&client=firefox-a.

l Farmar-Bowers, Q., Higgins, V., & Millar, J. (2013). In Food Security in Australia: Challenges and Prospects for the Future. Boston, MA: Springer. [Chapter 1: Introduction, pp.1-17]





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l Friel, S., & Lichacz, W. (2011). Unequal food systems, unhealthy diets. In G. Lawrence, K. Lyons & T. Wallington (Eds.), Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability (pp.111-125). London: Taylor and Francis.

l Friel, S., Gleeson, D., Thow, A.-M., Labonte, R., Stuckler, D., Kay, A., & Snowdon, W. (2013). A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement. Globalization and Health, 9(1), 46.

l Gibson, M. 2012. The Feeding of Nations : Re-defining food security for the 21st century Boca Raton, CRC Press.

l Goldstone, J. A. 2010. The New Population Bomb. Foreign Affairs, 89, 31 - 43.

l Gonzalez, C. G. 2011. Climate Change, Food Security and Agrobiodiversity: Toward a just, resilient and sustainable food system. Fordham Environmental Law Review, 22, 493 - 522.

l Guilin, L., Ying, Z. & Shenghui, C. 2013. Effects of urbanization on arable land requirements in China, based on food consumption patterns. Food Security, 439–449.

l Guthman, Julie. 2008. "“If they only knew”: color blindness and universalism in California alternative food institutions." The Professional Geographer no. 60 (3):387-397.

l Hazell, P. 2002. Green Revolution: Curse or blessing?, Washington, IFPRI.

l Holt-Gimenez, E. 2012. Food Rebellions : Crisis and the hunger for justice, New York.

l Ingram, J. S. I., Ericksen, P., & Liverman, D. (Eds.). 2010. Food security and global environmental change. London: Earthscan: chapter 1.

l International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. 2006. How to Conduct a Food Security Assessment: A Step-by-Step Guide for National Societies in Africa. Geneva. http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Publications/disasters/food_security/fs-assessment.pdf

l Jain, H. K. 2010. The Green Revolution: History, Impact and Future, New Delhi Studium Press.

l Jana, S. (2013). A National Park, River-dependent Sonahas, and a Biocultural Space in Peril. In H. Jonas, H. Jonas & S. M. Subramanian (Eds.), The Right to Responsibility - Resisting and Engaging Development, Conservation and the Law in Asia. (pp. 100-119).

l Keats, S., & Wiggins, S. (2014). Future diets: Implications for agriculture and food prices. UK: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). [Executive Summary]

l Kemp, D. 2004. Exploring Environmental Issues : An integrated approach London, Routledge.

l Koc, M., Das, R. & Jernigan, C. 2007. Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Iraq: The Impact of War and Sanctions on the Civilian Population. Food, Culture and Society, 10, 317 - 348.

l Koczberski, G., & Curry, G. N. 2005. Making a living: Land pressures and changing livelihood strategies among oil palm settlers in Papua New Guinea. Agricultural Systems, 85(3): 324-339.

l Koczberski, G., Curry, G. N., & Bue, V. 2012. Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in Papua New Guinea. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 53(3): 288-299.

l Ladner, P. 2011. The Urban Food Revolution : Changing the Way We Feed Cities. New York: New Society Publishers.

l Lal, R., Stewart, B. A., Uphoff, N. & Hansen, D. O. (eds.) 2005. Climate change and global food security, Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis.

l Lawrence, Geoffrey, K. Lyons, and T. Wallington. Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability. London: Taylor and Francis, 2011.

l Lobell, D. & Burke, M. (eds.) 2010. Climate Change and Food Security : Adapting agriculture to a warmer world Dordrecht: Springer.





http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Publications/disasters/food_security/fs-assessment.pdf

l Martin, W. 2010. “Food Security and Poverty: A Precarious Balance." The World Bank Group.

l Mayes, C. 2014. "An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted History." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics no. 27 (2):265-286. doi: 10.1007/s10806-013-9463-x

l McKenzie, F. M. H. 2013. Food security in a two speed economy: horticultural production in Western Australia. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future (339-352). Boston, MA: Springer.

l Melillo, E. D. 2012. The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Trade, 1840–1930. The American Historical Review, 117(4), 1028-1060. doi: 10.1093/ahr/117.4.1028

l Messer, E. & Cohen, M. J. 2007. Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization. Food, Culture and Society, 10, 297 - 315.

l Parry, M. L., Canziani, O. F., Palutikof, J. P., van der Linden, P. J., & Hanson, C. E. (Eds.). 2007. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press: chapter 5. https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch5.html

l Peacock, K. W. 2011. Food Security, New York, Infobase p. 34-35

l Peter Hartcher ‘A new food crisis on our plates’ (http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/a-new-food-crisis-is-on-our-plates-20110221-1b2f3.html)

l Pinstrup-Andersen, P. 2009. "Food Security: Definition and Measurement." Food Security 1: 5 -7.

l Pittock, A. B. 2009. Climate change: the science, impacts and solutions. Melbourne: CSIRO: 226-36, 284-89 (Australia and New Zealand). [available as ebook through the library].

l Pollan, M. 2007. Unhappy Meals. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?_r=2&

l Pollard, C. 2013. Selecting interventions for food security in remote Indigenous communities. In V. Higgins & J. Millar (Eds.), Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future (97-112). Boston, MA: Springer.

l Popkin, B. M. 2004. The nutrition transition in developing countries. In S. Maxwell & R. Slater (Eds.), Food policy: old and new (43-56). Oxford: Blackwell.

l Porter, J. R., Dyball, R., Dumaresq, D., Deutsch, L. & Matsuda, H. 2014. Feeding capitals: Urban food security and self-provisioning in Canberra, Copenhagen and Tokyo. Global Food Security, 3, 1 - 7.

l Reeves, T. 2009. A Sustainable Green Revolution for Global Food Security. Marcus Oldham.

l Rigg, J. (2007). An Everyday Geography of the Global South. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis: (Chapter 2 Structure and agency).

l Robbins, P. 2012. Political ecology : a critical introduction. Chichester & Malden, Mass.: J. Wiley & Sons.

l Ruben, R., Slingerland, M., & Nijhoff, H. 2006. Agro-food chains and networks for development. In R. Ruben, M. Slingerland & H. Nijhoff (Eds.), The agro-food chains and networks for development (1-25). Dordrecht: Springer.

l Runge, C. F. & Runge, C. P. 2010. Against the Grain: Why failing to complete the green revolution could bring the next famine. Foreign Affairs, 89, 8 - 14.

l Scelza, B. A. 2012. Food scarcity, not economic constraint limits consumption in a rural Aboriginal community. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 20(3): 108-112.

l Scoones, I. (2009). Livelihoods perspectives and rural development. Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(1): 171-196.

l Shiva,Vandana 1991, The Green Revolution in the Punjab. The Ecologist, March-April, Vol.21(2), p.57(4), 57-61. l Soby, S. D. 2013. The End of the Green Revolution. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 26, 537-546.





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l Stamm, Andreas. 2008 Agribusiness and Poverty Reduction: What Can be Learned from the Value Chain Approach? In Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks C. Stringer & R. Le Heron (Eds.) Aldershot: Ashgate.

l Tusiime, H. A., Renard, R. & Smets, L. 2013. Food aid and household food security in a conflict situation: Empirical evidence from Northern Uganda. Food Policy, 43, 14-22.

l Walker, B., & Salt, D. 2006. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Washington DC: Island Press: chapter 2 (28-38).

Online resources:

l http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/ l http://www.justconservation.org/ l http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/ l Department of the Environment information: http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/climate-science/climate-

change-impacts/western-australia l http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/ l The Forum for Food Sovereignty (Producer). (2007, 13 May 2014). Declaration of Nyéléni. Retrieved from






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Assessment Assessment schedule

Detailed information on assessment tasks

1. Assessing Food Security Concepts

This mark is assigned through two quiz (20%) and a case study essay (30%).

Quiz

There will be TWO online quizzes throughout the semester. One in Week 5 and the other in Week 13. They are individually worth 10% of your final grade. The format will be multiple choice and you will be assessed on content from Weeks 1-4 and Weeks 5-10 respectively.

The two quiz are administered through Blackboard. You will have 1 week from the opening date to complete the quiz. Each quiz is 10 questions and is open book. You have 10 minutes to complete the 10 questions from the time you start the quiz. Please ensure that you have no interruptions for that 10 minutes.

The first quiz opens at 9am on 17 March and the second quiz opens at 9am on 26 May.

Case Study

This will be on a topic relating to food security and of your choice (subject to approval by the lecturer). The topic chosen will be a specific case study – for example:

l The impacts of climate change on food security in a region and how it is being addressed; l Land access issues for an Indigenous group and how this affects their food security. l The growth of farmers markets in a specific location including why they were established and how they

address food security issues; l Developed country issues with food security, such as obesity; l The implications of demographic transition in a developing country on diet, and how these issues are being

addressed; l The food security issues between Australia and Indonesia (could be live exports, could be food safety for

tourists); l Changes in agribusiness and their implications for different interest groups (for instance, free trade

agreements, free trade zones, or the growth of supermarkets) l A case study of the relationship between an armed conflict and food security (as a cause and/or a

consequence of the conflict); l Urbanisation/counter urbanisation of a farming area and its implications for food security; or l A topic of your choice to be approved by the lecturer.

The assessment involves submission of a short report (maximum of 1500 words).

Make sure you read through the marking guide provided in the assessments area of blackboard for this unit as it explains how marks are allocated and what the tutor will be looking for when they read your submission.

Due date is midnight on 10 April.

External and online students will need to check their case study topic and approach with the unit tutor via email.

2. Internal students will assess a food venue. More information will be provided in class on the assessment technique.

You will be divided into groups to assess the social, environmental, economic and ethical dimensions of a food and beverage retailer on campus, and make recommendations about how they can improve their operations without

Task Value % Date DueUnit Learning Outcome(s)

Assessed

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Exercise 50 percent Week: 4,6,13 Day: 17 March, 10 April, 26 May Time: See below

1,2,3

2Report 50 percent Week: 15

Day: Friday 9 June Time: Midnight

2,3,4





excessive economic or time costs to the business. The groups will collect and enter the data. You will write up the report individually.

We will be using the Real Food Calculator (http://calculator.realfoodchallenge.org/help/assessmenttips) to assess a food and beverage venue on campus.

Your report (maximum of 2500 words) will: provide a literature review on issues of ethical and environmentally sustainable food purchasing (issues that you may want to include are environmental justice and food sovereignty); include a research objective; summarise the methods you use; include your results; include a discussion of your results that links your findings to the literature review; draw conclusions.

Present your report like you would for an employer. Make use of tables and write in a clear and direct style. Make sure you use subheadings. Include a title page and index. Include an executive summary. Ensure you have a reference list.

Make sure you read through the marking guide provided in blackboard for this unit as it explains how marks are allocated and what the marker will be looking for when they read your submission. Submit your assignment through blackboard

External and online students:

This will involve researching a topic relating to food security (and will be different to your topic chosen for the case study). Selection of the topic is subject to approval by the tutor.

Your report (maximum of 2500 words) will describe the significance of the topic; identify key areas of concern, and strategies for achieving a more sustainable future. Specific examples should be selected to demonstrate the key food security issues discussed in class and how sustainable solutions are being, or may be, implemented at different scales – be they global, national, regional or local.

Make sure you read through the marking guide provided in blackboard for this unit as it explains how marks are allocated and what the tutor will be looking for when they read your submission. Submit your assignment through blackboard.

Pass requirements

Students must achieve a final mark of 50 or greater to pass this unit.

Fair assessment through moderation

Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning outcomes, and that student work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation of assessment are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from policies.curtin.edu.au/policies/teachingandlearning.cfm

Late assessment policy

This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable, and that penalties are consistently applied.

1. All assessments students are required to submit will have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission (eg a mark

equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.

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The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.

Deferred assessments

If your results show that you have been granted a deferred assessment you should immediately check your OASIS email for details.

Supplementary assessments

Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit.

Referencing style

The referencing style for this unit is Chicago.

More information can be found on this style from the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing.

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Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.

Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.

From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm

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For specific assistance with any of the items listed below, please contact The Learning Centre: life.curtin.edu.au/learning-support/learning_centre.htm

l Using Blackboard, the I Drive and Back-Up files l Introduction to PowerPoint, Word and Excel





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Information on all these things is available through the University's "Student Rights and Responsibilities" website at: students.curtin.edu.au/rights.

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Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.

Recent changes to this unit include:

The final report assessment has been updated and new readings have been included on urbanisation and urban food.

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Program calendar

Week

Begin Date

Lecture/

Seminar

Assessment Due

Orient-ation

25 February No classes

1. 3 March Geographies of food security: key concepts and this unit

2. 10 March Introduction to the concept, dimensions and measurements of food security

3. 17 March Scale and food security

4. 24 March Population growth, settlement patterns and urbanization Quiz 1 opens 17 March on weeks 1-4

5. 31 March Tuition free week

6. 7 April Food insecurity: disaster, conflict and aid Case study due: 10 April

7. 14 April Environmental challenges: climate change, water availability and adaptation

8. 21 April Tuition free week

9. 28 April Geographies of food consumption Case Study Presentations

10. 5 May Global food networks, supply chains and vertical integration

11. 12 May Food Safety: protecting populations and controlling markets

Indigenous food security: from land conflict to health promotions

12. 19 May Urban agriculture and farmers markets

13. 26 May Sustainable livelihoods case study: small holder settlers in Papua New Guinea

Quiz 2 Opens 26/5

14. 2 June Food Fight II—quiz and wrap up

15. 9 June Research report due: Friday 9 June

16. 16 June Exam Weeks

17 23 June Exam Weeks





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