PCS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Realizing the Right to Food: Social Movements, Innovation and Conflict

1 credits (Spring)

Grinnell College is near the US center of power and discourse about agricultural innovation. However, there are other important centers and different types of innovation. This short course briefly reviews ideas about hunger, and moves on to explore sites of innovation involving social movements. For examples, peasant farmers and indigenous peoples are leading debates on the right to food at the United Nations while social movements have begun to end hunger in Belo Horizonte Brazil. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.

Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: February 26 to March 14. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff