Course:LFS350/Week 06

Overview

• This is 2 of 4 of the Flexible Learning sessions in the course. The objectives of the flexible learning sessions are to provide students with more time to engage with their community-based project and be exposed to different perspectives on the theories and concepts explored in class.

Objectives

After completing this session, you should be able to:

• Reflect on the connections between food, health, the environment and culture.
• Consider how behavior, identity and action is shaped by and shapes an individual's efforts to engage in positive change in the food system.

Required Readings and Resources

PODCASTS: The Moth
This week, we will engage with narratives and storytelling to explore personal connections between food, health, the environment, and culture. As a group, discuss the themes that emerge in these three different contexts and how they relate to your interests and future professionals within the food system, your community-based project, and/or prior experiences you have had in your lives. Relate and explore these themes relative to our conversations of community food security, asset-based community development, and theories and concepts specific to your community-based project.

• Story 1 - The Fish Bank (Jensi Sartin)
• Story 2 - Grandma Mahembe’s Farm (Lindiwe Majele Sibanda)
• Story 3 - A Pragmatic Idealist (Sisonke Msimang)