This course deals with private interests in the food system — from small food and farm enterprises to transnational corporations — that encompasses half the world’s labor force, half the world’s assets, 40% of consumer purchases and produce over 25% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The public policy issues we will deal with include: equitable sustainable development, nutrition, health, food safety, the environment and climate change, conservation of natural resources, protection of plant and animal diversity, intellectual property, genetics, food system governance and more. We will use case studies to analyze where eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity are inextricably linked in the new global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.