HLTH 475 - Food and Nutrition Security

The right to adequate food was recognized in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nonetheless, millions of people globally are not able to access enough food and/or adequate quality of food to support optimal health and well-being, with climate change and conflict exacerbating rates of hunger. Achieving food and nutrition security is fundamental to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, with SDG2 explicitly focused on achieving zero hunger. In this course, we will explore the conceptualizations and measurement of food and nutrition security; the prevalence of and factors associated with food and nutrition security at the local, national, and global levels; and interventions to ameliorate food and nutrition insecurity.