96558 - Circular Economy and Sustainable Development Policies

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the most suitable tools to understand and analyse the principles of circular economy and sustainable development policies with special reference to the agro-food-evenvironmental system. The student knows the essential aspects of Agenda Onu 2030 for Sustainable Development, the International Organisatios and Cooperation to provide at global at local level food security.

Course contents

1. Circular economy, bioeconomy and sustainable development

2. Agenda ONU 2030 for Sustainable Development, global food policy

3. Agri-food system and sustainability

4. Food security, Organisations and International Cooperation

5. Sustanability and solidarity: food loss and food waste, diets

6. Local food policy and poverty

Readings/Bibliography

Segrè Andrea, Ilaria Pertot, La spesa nel carrello degli altri. L'Italia e l'impoverimento alimentare, Baldini + Castoldi, Milano, 2024.

Segrè Andrea, Risso Enzo, a cura di, Lo spreco alimentare nel mondo e in Italia. Quanto, cosa e perché, Castelvecchi, Roma 2023.

Segrè Andrea, L'insostenibile pesantezza dello spreco alimentare. Dallo spreco zero alla Dieta mediterranea, Castelvecchi, Roma 2022.

Segrè Andrea, D(i)ritto al cibo, Scienza Express, Trieste 2022.

Segrè Andrea, Politiche per lo sviluppo agricolo e la sicurezza alimentare, Carocci, Roma 2008.

Articles, reports and other material ara available here https://iol.unibo.it/).

Teaching methods

Lesson in the classrom

Case study approaced with Challenge Base Learning methodology 

Online seminars with experts

Assessment methods

The exam will take place in 2 steps.

1. Oral examination on course contents

2. Evaluation of the work with the Challenge Base Learning

Teaching tools

Blakckboard, viedoprojector, PC, ppt presentations, internet access.

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Segrè