Course: Food Security

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Course title Food Security
Course code LUEB/LCOPB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Snopek Lukáš, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Definition of terms: food security, food sovereignty, food quality, food, level of food security, international institutions dealing with food security, critical infrastructure of the state. Instead of food security in the country's national security, determinants of food security, public supply system. A breakdown of the food security in the Czech Republic - strength index of food safety, possible methods for calculating food security. Definition of problems related to food security (globalization, developing countries, sustainable development, etc.). The topicality of the issue of food security and food self-sufficiency in the Czech Republic (indicators of food self-sufficiency in the country). Strategic framework for food security in terms of fundamental documents of the Czech Republic, the institutional framework for food security. Food market in the Czech Republic, the issue of food supply and demand, affordability of quality food, relation to food sovereignty and security. Hygiene standards in the food sector, quality management system, HACCP (hazard analysis issues in the food industry). Eating populations in crisis situations - nutritional and economic aspects, risk analysis. Globalization and integration and their implications for agricultural production. Global and international food markets and sustainable development. The Common Agricultural Policy - the history, protectionism in European agriculture, its causes and consequences.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming), Teamwork
  • Home preparation for classes - 30 hours per semester
  • Participation in classes - 16 hours per semester
  • Preparation for course credit - 10 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Without preconditions.
Without preconditions.
learning outcomes
The student defines food security.
The student defines food security.
The student will explain the content of the term food security.
The student will explain the content of the term food security.
The student will explain the role of the state ensuring food security.
The student will explain the role of the state ensuring food security.
The student characterizes Czech agriculture.
The student characterizes Czech agriculture.
The student will explain the issue of food security in connection with membership in the EU.
The student will explain the issue of food security in connection with membership in the EU.
Skills
Determine the food supply for the household.
Determine the food supply for the household.
Choose a possible option to ensure food self-sufficiency of the selected household.
Choose a possible option to ensure food self-sufficiency of the selected household.
Plan to ensure household food security.
Plan to ensure household food security.
Improve your approach to food waste.
Improve your approach to food waste.
Collaborate on the development of a group project within the subject food safety.
Collaborate on the development of a group project within the subject food safety.
teaching methods
Knowledge
Teamwork
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Teamwork
assessment methods
Didactic test
Didactic test
Preparation of a presentation
Preparation of a presentation
Composite examination (Written part + oral part)
Composite examination (Written part + oral part)
Recommended literature
  • DOLEŽEL Martin a kol. Základy ochrany obyvatelstva. UP Olomouc, 2014. ISBN 978-80-244-4268-6.
  • KUNA, Z. Demografický a potravinový problém světa. Praha, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7357--588.
  • Lawrence,S. Work measurement and methods improvement. New York:Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0-471-370894.


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