WORLD POPULATION AND FOOD SUPPLY

GEOG 346U

Instructor:  Martha Works

Course approved for major distribution:  Human Geography

This class is an introduction to the global spatial patterns of population growth and food production.  Population growth, agricultural responses to meet the needs of this growing population, and the consequences of the ensuing land use/land cover change are vital to an understanding of global issues.  Course material will cover the range of adaptations human communities have made to population growth, how humans have transformed landscapes in an effort to meet their basic need for  food, and on role of population growth and agricultural development as it relates to global environmental change.

Syllabus    

Key Word Lists:        Population              Agriculture                Population and Agriculture web pages

Key Word List for Final
 

See Works' Home page for Research Paper Guidelines