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 researchers, community leaders, policy-makers, 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.
Humans are the dominant species on Earth and ecology is key to understanding the multiple feedbacks through which their activities affect human health. Fundamental principles of ecology,from population to ecosystem levels, will be examined through the lens of human health. Topics include human... read more about The Ecology of Human Health »
Explores interactions between ecosystem health and human well-being in context of global change and human population growth. Effects of climate change on food supply, water availability, land degradation and human well-being; impact of species distribution, disease spread, and human health;... read more about Ecosystem Health and Human Well-Being »
Critical introduction to the dynamics and challenges of health care policy in China, from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular focus on the reform period. Topics to be discussed: health care and economic development, state responsibility and welfare systems, privatization,... read more about Health Policy in Transition: Challenges for China »
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 »
Viewing “agriculture,” “nature,” and “consumption” as pressing feminist themes and exploration of various dimensions of the cultural and political ecology/economy of producing, processing, circulating, preparing, and consuming sustenance. Particular focus on the ethical impact of US policy on rural... read more about Food, Farming, and Feminism »
