Project description

This course takes a quantitative, hands-on approach to understanding the challenges of feeding the human population of the planet Earth. We�ll discuss topics of nutrition, subsistence food consumption, and consumer demand for food to develop our understanding of the current situation. We�ll then develop both theories and computer models of population dynamics taking into account people�s decisions about childbearing, changes in mortality, and changes in food supply in order to learn something about the future of food. Focus throughout the course will be on developing practical tools to work with real-world data.

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