- Summer 2009 @NCCROW in Bolsena, Italy: "Food, Globalization & Gender"
- Course blog archive
- Posted September 23, 2008
EXPLORE THE 2009 COURSE BLOG ARCHIVE
Archive: Call for Participation in the Summer 2009 program:
Undergraduate students, graduate students, development professionals, alumni/alumnae and serious foodies are all invited to join the
SUMMER 2009 NCCROW SUMMER INSTITUTE ON GENDER, DISASTERS, AND DEVELOPMENT
June 1-12, 2009
Bolsena, Italy
This for-credit summer institute examines gender roles in relation to a changing global food
system. The course examines the fragility of the food system, the
modern food crisis, and ways in which gender roles affect food and
health.
The course is held in Italy, the country where the United Nations agencies with the mandate on Food and Agriculture and numerous other international organizations focused on Nutrition, Food and Culture have their headquarters.
Students will earn 3 undergraduate or graduate credits per class upon successful completion of the assignments.
Approximately 40 hours of lectures will be offered during each 2-week
course, including many guest speakers from International Organizations
and University Programs. Proposed field trips include the European
Agency for Food Safety, to the Slow Food Academy, and the HQs of the UN
Food and Agriculture Organization, UN World Food Programme, and the UN
International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Other activities encouraged and supported include research and
practical workshops, along with visits to local organic producers,
markets, and gourmet kitchens offering traditional dishes with locally
grown ingredients.
Food, Globalization, and Gender Flyer
Audio Podcast
Listen in as Nathan Morrow describes the NCCROW Summer Institute in Italy (6:28/MP3) 
Pictured above: Nathan Morrow consults around the globe on food security issues and leads the Summer Institute along with NCCROW Interim Executive
Director Nancy Mock. At Tulane, Morrow is a Visiting Assistant
Professor affiliated with the Payson Center.
Learning objectives
- Review current highlights and controversies in food and nutrition science
- Understand how globalization affects food systems locally
- Review the history of food in culture and its relationship to gender roles
- Explore modern initiatives to strengthen healthy eating and food-culture
- Develop practical skills in food production and preparation
Themes
Food Security and Food Safety: Health & Nutrition / Food Intake Needs / Food Components / Food regulations and Politics / Conflict and Post conflict issues around security for Women nourishing their families.
Food systems in globalized economies: Green Revolution and New Agriculture / OGM, monocultures / Women in food production / Natural resources management, Ecofeminism perspectives / Land regulations and Women status
Gender roles towards food production, preparation and consumption / Exploring the many connections across cultures between women and food / Food and the definition of Cultural Identities / Women’s traditional knowledge about nature, nutrition, properties of plants and animals / Changing paradigms and model of rationalities on Nature and Women along with cultural transformation.
Current initiatives for Alternative Food Systems and Healthy Eating Movements: Organic farming / Fair Trade / Women’s Community practices from the South / Slow Food
Contact:
cdooge@tulane.edu
mock@tulane.edu
sabrina.aguiari@gmail.com
(NCCROW will also sponsor a Gender, Disasters, and Development Summer Institute in Rwanda in Summer 2009. Details forthcoming as of 10 01 2008. Please contact Nancy Mock for additional information.)
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| overwhelming wheels... of parmesan |
learning about properties of herbs |
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| and about cultural definition of roles between male and female.. |
... through inderdisciplinary approach = A: anthropology, C: Cinema, E: economy - etc. |
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| Field trip to the Food and Agriculture Organization HQs, overlooking the Colosseum... |
...while exercising on rethinking gender roles for sustainable development |
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| To be sure it was a convenient setting,we staged the course in a (former) Franciscan Convent, in the very heart of Italy, Bolsena | at the border of Latium, Umbria and Tuscany, overlooking the largest volcanic lake of Europe |
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