Description

Contents

Note that the Specialisation in International Agri-Food Policy can be taken as a stand-alone certificate but also makes up a mandatory part of the Masters in Food, Society and International Food Governance and the Postgraduate Degree in Food Systems and Governance.

Module 1: Policy Analysis

* Introduction and Overview of Global Food and Agriculture
* The Economics of Food Consumption
* Markets, Prices, Policies and Trade
* Critical Approaches to Policy Analysis
* Conclusion

Module 2: Agri-Food Policy, Food Safety and International Trade

* Agriculture and trade
* Food-related regulations (farm-to-fork)
* Agri-food standards
* Food safety
* Other food-related regulations
* Food- related regulations and agricultural production
* Food-related regulations in trade: barriers or catalyst to trade
* Methods of analyzing SPS and TBT measures
* Emerging issues in agri-food policy, food safety and trade
* Conclusions and summary

Module 3: Introduction to Global Food Safety Law and Regulation

* What is global food safety law?
* Global food safety law in action: characters, problems and future perspectives
* The global legal framework of food safety law and regulation and its actors
* The Codex Alimentarius Commission
* Conclusions and summary of the course

Lecturers

Management and teaching staff

F. Xavier Medina

Dr. Medina is Academic Director of Food Systems, Culture and Society. His main fields of research include: anthropology of food, food and wine tourism and social and ethnic identities. He has undertaken fieldwork in Spain (Basque Country, Catalonia), Hungary (Budapest, Tokaj), Argentina & Zimbabwe (Matabeleland) and has edited and authored several books on Food Studies. In 2005 he received the Gourmand Books Awards, (Special award of the Jury). He is currently President of ICAF-Europe, European Section of the International Commission of Anthropology of Food (ICAF).

Teaching staff

Jessica Duncan

Jessica Duncan coordinates the Masters programme in Food, Society and International Food Governance in the Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society. Her research interests include public participation in global agri-food governance and farm-level consequences of agri-food policies. She has worked in community capacity building, rural development, youth engagement and with various food and agriculture organizations. She has published on participation in global agri-food governance and on the politics of food.p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }

Dario Bevilacqua

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William Meyers

William H. Meyers is Co-Director, FAPRI and Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia since 2003. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics, University of Minnesota and MS, University of the Philippines, Los Banos. He was Professor of Economics at Iowa State University, 1979-2003 and Director, Agriculture and Economic Development Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations from July 1999 to July 2002, while on leave from ISU. He was Interim Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development 1996 to 1998 and Co-Director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at Iowa State University from 1984 to 1998. He has directed development projects in Ukraine, Hungary, Indonesia, Zambia, Jamaica, and Honduras and worked on agricultural and rural policy studies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Dr. Meyers has authored numerous publications on trade and agricultural policy, commodity market analysis, and transition economics.

Aysen Tanyeri-Abur

Dr. Aysen Tanyeri-Abur currently teaches in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University (Boston, USA). She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Food Studies and Gastronomy program at Boston University's Metropolitan College. Until 2007, she was with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome, where she worked as an Economist in the Economic and Social Analysis Division and as Senior Officer for private sector partnerships. Her research has primarily focused on modelling and analysis of food and agriculture policies and she has worked in several countries including the US, Mexico, Tanzania, Mali, Ecuador and Turkey. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M university and an MA in Economics from Ohio State University.

Programme administrationRoser Nadal

Requirements

Students can apply for this specialisation even if they do not have a university degree.
The Specialisation in International Agri-Food Policy is open to everyone with a good grasp of English. The UOC is an open university which means that even if you do not have a high school diploma or university degree you can still take our courses.
If you do not have a recognised university degree then you will receive an equivalency certificate instead of a degree.

Degrees

The course materials and teaching language is English. A strong grasp of English is required for this programme.