Module ANTH40D15: Advanced Studies in Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Livelihoods

Department: Anthropology

ANTH40D15: Advanced Studies in Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Livelihoods

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• Equip students with an advanced in-depth understanding of poverty, food security and nutrition in a global context
• Develop advanced critical knowledge about how food environment, geo-spatial inequalities, and wider determinants of health affect food security, wellbeing, and nutritional status
• Develop advanced understanding of variable context between global North and South

Content

• The module will have an interdisciplinary approach of integrating anthropological and public health perspectives to discuss problems relating to food security, nutrition, unhealthy diets, food environments, geo-spatial inequality, and sustainable livelihood framework. The topics will include analysis of global food and nutrition security, sustainable development goals, wider determinants of health, and neighbourhood effects on health and wellbeing. Furthermore, vulnerability contexts, responses and impact of food insecurity in relation to global North and South will be discussed. Readings on this module will include quantitative and qualitative studies, documents from UN organisations, such as the World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), CONCERN focusing on broad range of issues around food security, nutrition and sustainable livelihood with its relevance for global North and South.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate advanced levels of knowledge about global food insecurity and malnutrition situation, strengths and weaknesses of various assessment techniques, and approaches to improve food security and nutrition
• Demonstrate advanced in-depth knowledge about place-based inequality, and wider determinants of health
• Demonstrate understanding of the conceptual framework of malnutrition
• Demonstrate ability to understand and interpret child grown standard from theoretical and practical perspectives

• Ability to indentify key literature in topic areas of food security and malnutrition
• Ability to critically analyse malnutrition and its causes
• Ability to link malnutrition to the geospacial distribution of poverty and food security
• Develop advanced analytical skills to critically engage with primary and secondary data and relevant literatures on food insecurity, nutrition and neighbourhood effects on health and wellbeing, and to interpret them

• Review and adapt approaches to food security, nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods and their relevance for the global North and South
• Translating subject knowledge and skills into a research project plan including a rationale for the research and a proposed methodology
• Developing a written research abstract and PowerPoint presentation

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• • Lectures covering subject-specific knowledge and skills aimed at developing student’s knowledge and understanding of theoretical and practical issues in the field of food security, nutrition, and sustainable livelihood approaches
• Seminars will cover discussion around relevant themes and provide opportunities to discuss further on formative and summative assessments.
• Formative assessment includes writing an abstract using specified content guidelines and preparing PowerPoint presentation slides to pitch their research project plans. Student will have the opportunity to engage in discussions on this through pre-arranged face-to-face/ Teams meeting with module tutor.
• Summative assessment includes producing a critical reading log and developing a research project proposal. Students will be required to keep a reading log of relevant materials which will help them to prepare the research project proposal. Detailed guideline on these will be provided in the Learn Ultra site of the module, which will include information about suggested essential and optional contents and structure for both the reading log and proposal. Students will also be able to seek further clarification from module tutor as needed.
• The module Blackboard Learn Ultra site will provide guidance about preparing formative and summative assessment, marking criteria ensuring all relevant information are available and students will be able to seek further clarification as needed.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

A 300 word abstract and presentation slides (5-10 slides) about an outline of the proposed research project.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University