Perspectives and knowledge from experts,
community leaders, farmers and more.
Duke University’s World Food Policy Center develops coordinated and inclusive food policies. Our approach bridges key areas of food policies and systems to improve human wellbeing, planetary health, and equity. At the heart of this work, we learn from and connect unique voices—including people most affected by food system challenges.
Our vision for The Leading Voices in Food podcast series is to offer wide-ranging perspectives and knowledge from experts, community leaders, farmers and more. We will feature topics across the food system spectrum such as food insecurity, obesity, agriculture, access and equity, food safety, food defense, and food policy issues.
Departments and programs across Duke offers a wealth of undergraduate and graduate courses that can inform and empower students interested in making change within the dynamic world of food systems.
The WFPC will gladly talk with and advise any student with an interest in food policy and food system equity.
Documentary approach to the world of food using fieldwork research. Topics of food and its preparation examined through deep stories of how food is raised, prepared, and presented in order to explore how the myriad ways in which what we eat reveal key biographical, economic, religious, and other... read more about Our Culinary Cultures »
Society in Western Europe ca. 1000-1500. Medieval sexuality (femininities and masculinities) and gender. Social relationships, norms and deviance. Power and structures of authority. Spirituality, religion, theology of sexuality and food, sin and virtue, scientific and medical ideas about the body,... read more about Medieval Bodies: Sex & Food »
Historical and present interactions between humans and plants like coffee, tea, sugar, opium, pepper, potato and hemp, illustrating major changes in human civilization and cultures as a result. Social economic, trade, exploration, spiritual, medicinal, and plant structural and chemical reasons... read more about Plants and Human Use »
Historical roles of nature—as a cultural construct and a set of biological relationships—in shaping human choices in North America, from colonial times to the present. Special attention to historical origins of contemporary environmental politics, including the origins of wilderness; environmental... read more about North American Environmental History »
Intensive summer course builds on elements acquired in Spanish 203 while engaging in multidisciplinary examination of food production/consumption in NC and Peru. Further development of language skills in context of comparative exploration of impacts of globalization on modes of preparation,... read more about Intensive Summer Spanish: Food Production and Consumption in NC and Peru »
