ADS712 - Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods

Unit details

Note: You are seeing the 2014 view of this unit information. These details may no longer be current.
Year2014 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Online
Credit point(s):1
Previously coded as:

AID712

EFTSL value:0.125
Unit chair:M Kelly
Prerequisite:

 Nil

Corequisite:

For students who commenced prior to 2014: Nil

For students who commenced from 2014: ADS701 for students enrolled in courses A511, A611 or A727

Incompatible with:

 Nil

Note:

You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin’s online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.

Content

This unit will explore issues of food security and sustainable rural livelihoods, encompassing relevant aspects of sustainable development, environmental and resource management and conservation, and agricultural/rural production systems. Linkages between social, environmental and economic influences on development will be explored, alongside critical review of debates on population, resource scarcity, poverty, and equality. Theoretical debate will be used to inform an analysis of policy and programme responses. Contemporary case studies from Africa, Asia, and Central America will be used to highlight regional and national issues and hotspots, and assess both immediate responses and longer term development intervention options.

Proposed topics covered include:

  • Environment and development,
  • Sustainability and the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework,
  • Population,
  • Natural Resources,
  • Carrying capacity (the economists versus the environmentalists),
  • Agriculture,
  • Forestry and rural production systems,
  • Food Security,
  • HIV/AIDS,
  • Risk and coping mechanisms,
  • The role of technology.

Assessment

Two assignments, of not more than 5000 words: first assignment consists of short answer topics 40%, and the second assignment an essay on a specified topic 60%

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$755$755$2184$2815

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.