The joint seminar aims at providing the students with an overview of economic aspects of undernutrition and obesity. Students will learn how undernutrition and obesity are measured, what are the socio-economic determinants of each of them, their consequences on people wellbeing, and policies that can be implemented to address these issues.
There is no reference text. All background materials will be made available by the lecturers on the Joint Seminar website on the Moodle platform.
Obiettivi Formativi
The overall objective is to get students acquainted with the concepts of food security and nutrition measurement and analysis.
Prerequisiti
No formal prerequisite is required. However, knowledge of introductory microeconomics, development economics and econometrics is welcome
Metodi Didattici
Each topic will be presented as a blend of theoretical constructs (concepts, models) and empirical evidence based on the most relevant/recent papers
Altre Informazioni
The lecture handouts and all relevant materials (background papers, videos and other internet sources) can be downloaded/accessed from the course website on the Moodle e-learning platform.
The course website on the Moodle platform provides also a direct link to Webex platform for lecture videostreaming.
In order to have access to the course website on the Moodle platform, students are required to:
a) first, access the Moodle e-learning platform (http://e-l.unifi.it/login/index.php), and
b) then access the course website on the Moodle platform.
The access to Moodle does not require any password for UNIFI students.
Incoming students who do not have yet an UNIFI account can request the password to access the course website, writing an email to the lecturer (donato.romano@unifi.it).
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
The lecturers will propose some topics and provide selected references to guide the development of a review paper to be developed by students. The review paper will be presented by proposers and discussed with all participants to the Joint Seminar