Topic: Consolidation of Global Agriculture

Summary: After an in-depth exploration of agriculture and global trade guided by Creative Change curricula, freshman high school students created a 'Monopoly'-style game to demonstrate the links among the loss of family farms in the US, the global consolidation of agriculture, & the impacts on world hunger. The game was supplemented with a report providing research and data on global trade patterns. The students presented their work at a public forum aimed at educating parents and community members about agricultural issues.

Some of the concepts and skills demonstrated through the project:

• Understanding patterns of global trade
• Comparing economic systems and their impacts
• Explaining how international trade patterns affect different regions
• Researching and documenting important public issues
• Understanding relationships between economic and social systems
• Describing the effects of export-based development, debt, and structural adjustment programs

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