Overview
Re: Food Justice/Security Issue Paper
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You will write an 8-10 page, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins, paper on a current food justice/security issue. Please provide a cover page, which is not page 1 of the 8-page paper, and include page numbers.
You should have a minimum of 10 original sources cited in the text, as well as in the bibliography. Wikipedia is not a source. Citations: in text, you choose the style.
Provide history/background to the issue. What is happening? Why is it a food justice/security issue? Discuss the various stakeholders that have been working on the issue, being sure to include all of the angles and viewpoints of those stakeholders. Note key, already-established policies and programs that are being used to address the problem, if applicable, as well as being sure to highlight any new policy suggestions and/or practical actions being made by any/all of the stakeholders.
Possible Issues to Research: San Diego food justice movement, other U.S. locations, how to feed 9 billion people by 2050, food access in USA/other countries, nutrition in schools, U.S. Farm Bill, agricultural policy initiatives to address hunger, international trade agreements and food justice, fair trade programs, a specific crop/product to address food security, race/class/economics and food, sustainable farming, science/research, GMOs, etc.
Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. You may submit your papers in such a way that no identifying information about you is included. Another option is that you may request, in writing, that your papers not be submitted to Turnitin.com. However, if you choose this option you will be required to provide documentation to substantiate that the papers are your original work and do not include any plagiarized material.
A paper that has zero in-text citations will be an automatic zero for the grade. A paper with improper citations will have points taken off accordingly and any paper that is submitted and determined to have been the result of using AI, e.g. ChatGPT, will be a zero for the paper and I will begin the university disciplinary process, which could possibly result in expulsion from the university. Students might consider this SDSU Library training on plagiarism: https://libguides.sdsu.edu/onlineinstruction/plagi...
Dates to Remember:
This serves as a guideline. You are graded only on the final paper that you turn in on/by 9 April.
1 March 2026 – turn your topic in to me via email or during office hours for approval.
1 April 2026 – turn in an outline/rough draft of your paper, including at least 5 cited sources.
9 April 2026 – paper is due by 11:59 PM San Diego time, submitted to Canvas.