Globala försörjningssystem och matsäkerhet

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Grading criteria for the course 'Global Food Systems and Food Security' of the Master's Programme; Rural Development and Natural Resource Management.

Spring semester 2022
Course code LU 0092.

Course learning objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with an understanding of global food chains, i.e. how food is produced, sold, distributed and apprehended on global and local levels. The course discusses how food systems are linked globally, while food production simultaneously is part of local livelihoods. The course deals with questions of global balances and imbalances in production and consumption with a specific focus on how food systems are integrated into social, cultural, and political contexts. The course provides students with abilities to analyze the challenges caused by climate change as well as economic, political and social challenges as well as what is needed to establish food security. The course gives students knowledge and capabilities needed for further studies as well as professions centering on global food systems and food security.

After finishing the course students should be able to:

- understand and analyze production and marketing of agricultural products on regional a global levels, and understand how the global and the regional is intertwined;

- understand and analyze the historical transformation of agriculture from subsistence to industry, and the effects of these transformations on producers and communities;

- understand and analyze how international political relations and the globalization of markets have influenced food production, marketing, transportation and consumption;

- understand and analyze the importance of food security and its dependence on ecological, economic, political and social factors;

- understand and discuss the social theories needed to analyze global changes in food production, marketing, transportation and consumption.

Examination and demands for approval (grade 3):

The course is graded through a written home exam. The students are required to obtain a minimum number of points to pass the examination.

In order to pass the course students must also participate actively in weekly discussion seminars.

Comments to the grading criteria:

Using the learning objectives as a frame, the following areas of assessment are being used to evaluate the quality of the exam:

The ability to combine empirical material/descriptions with analytical reasoning

The ability to analyze

The ability to coherently understand and deal with complex questions

The ability to describe and analyze the importance of theorizing for understanding the complexity of global food systems and food security

The ability to produce a scientific and well-written text

The grading criteria should be regarded as comprehensive descriptions of different levels of quality. The assessment of the totality is the most important factor. This means that single weaknesses within one area to be assessed may be balanced by strengths in other areas. The grading criteria specifies the minimum level to achieve a specific grading level (3 - 5).

Grading criteria

3. In writing: be able to account for different aspects of and perspectives on global food systems and food security, according to the specified learning objectives of the course.

Participate actively in weekly discussion seminars.

4. In writing: be able to account for, compare or evaluate different aspects of and perspectives on global food systems and food security, according to the specified learning objectives of the course.

Participate actively in weekly discussion seminars.

5. In writing: be able to account for, compare, evaluate and theorize on different aspects of and perspectives on global food systems and food security, according to the specified learning objectives of the course.

Participate actively in weekly discussion seminars.