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Ashoka University’s undergraduate course curriculum is taught across three semesters: Spring, Summer and Monsoon (Fall). Courses are broadly divided into three categories – Foundation Courses (core curriculum), Major & Minor Courses and Co-Curricular Courses.
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In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), agri-food systems can be instrumental in not only reducing poverty and hunger, but also ensuring sustainable food and nutrition security; healthy populations and environment; efficient use of resources, and resilience to shocks and crises. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the concept of agri-food systems, their role in economic development, why and how they should/could be transformed to be sustainable, resilient, and inclusive in providing livelihoods and nutritious, safe, accessible, affordable, and sufficient food for current and future generations. The course will focus on topics such as global trends in food demand and supply; the roles of organizations, institutions, policy and technology, as well as shocks and crises (such as climate change and COVID-19) on agri-food systems, and will highlight national, regional and global level opportunities and challenges for LMICs to transform their agri-food systems into one that produces sufficient, affordable, accessible, culturally acceptable, safe and nutritious food for all its citizens. In addition to providing the theoretical framework and the latest literature on each topic, each session may also feature an invited guest speaker, an expert from the field, and where appropriate will feature to make the topics and working thereon more relatable and accessible to those who may want to work in this field. All these themes will be presented and discussed with an equity, sustainability, and social justice lens. In each class students will have opportunities to present, discuss or debate the topics, and in a few of the classes, experts from the field from within Ashoka or outside will be invited to share their points of view and discuss opportunities and challenges of working in their fields.
