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Oct 18 2018

Global Horticulture & Human Nutrition to Enhance Community Resilience and Food Security

HORT 689 course announcement

Global Horticulture and Human Nutrition to Enhance Community Resilience and Food Security (HORT 689) is an online course jointly developed under a USDA/NIFA Higher Education Challenge Grant awarded to the University of Arkansas, Texas A&M University and Texas Tech University. The course will cover three broad areas of global horticulture, human nutrition and international development and is intended to be multi-disciplinary. After completing the course, select graduate students will be able to:

  • Explain components of the value chain approach in international agricultural development, including marketing systems.
  • Describe methods of prevention of food loss through preservation and food processing.
  • Identify food security issues brought about by famine to mitigate child and maternal nutritional deficiencies.
  • Explain how beneficial compounds in fruits and vegetables impact human nutrition.
  • Describe the nexus of human nutrition and horticulture in addressing international development.
  • Articulate theory of change through the lens of gender and youth using measurable impacts.

Students who complete the course will be eligible to receive a scholarship to participate in an associated two-week-long international service learning experience to be held in Guatemala in late May 2019.

For more information, please contact Dana Lewis (dklewis@ag.tamu.edu) and Dr. Tim Davis (t-davis5@tamu.edu) for registration details.

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