Unit Code: DNU716

Unit Name: Food Security, Climate change and Nutrition in Emergencies

Description: The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of food security, climate change and nutrition in emergencies. The world’s climate is rapidly changing due to global warming and will continue to do so for the decades and centuries ahead. This poses major challenges for future agricultural systems to provide food and other bio-resources for the 9 billion people that will occupy the planet by 2050. So it is a challenge to food security. On the other hand there is now a growing recognition of how different agriculture systems can contribute to climate change, past and present. Hence, the dual challenge of adapting future agricultural systems to climate change, must also include mitigation of the effects of agriculture on climate change. Climate change is also associated with emerging emergencies and malnutrition. The course gives an understanding to the students about the relationship between food and nutrition security, climate change and emergencies, assessment of the nutritional status during emergencies and planning of intervention for these vulnerable groups in humanitarian settings.

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Prerequisite: DNU607

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1