Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems for a Food Secure Future

Further your career in resilient landscapes management

Estimated Time 1 month
at 16-20 hours per week
Enroll by 06 July 2023

Sponsorship Registration Closed!
Self-funding Registration: 4 March 2024

About this program

Food insecurity is inherently linked to farming. Increasingly farmers and other food chain actors are dealing in many ways with multiple and simultaneous shocks and changes affecting food systems. While coping with increased insecurity, the agricultural sector also needs to face future challenges of feeding a growing and urbanising population with changing dietary demands and at the same time reduce the environmental impact of agricultural activities. This requires sustainable intensification (getting more from less), with reduced vulnerability to perturbations. With these increasing uncertainties and future challenges in prospect, there is the need for development of resilient and sustainable food systems that can cope with unexpected shocks and ensure a food secure future.

This course aims to offer a systems thinking and systems dynamics approach on agriculture as well as skills and tools to design innovative, resilient and sustainable food systems. It looks at how to balance between producing food, managing natural resources, dealing with uncertainty and providing an livelihood base for the rural population. It will move beyond the technical realm looking also at the role and involvement of public, private and civil stakeholders for inclusion of social, environmental, economic, and political aspects.

What will you learn?

In this course, your knowledge and skills will be strengthened. After this course, you will:

  • Have a deeper understanding on how global development trends and challenges affect farming practices and policies at local and national levels
  • Be able to use various tools and techniques to analyse food systems and to identify critical issues for change
  • Be able to develop innovative and practical oriented interventions, strategies and policies for transition to resilient and sustainable food systems, which are socially, economically and ecologically balanced
  • Understand the role of stakeholders and involve them in making food systems more resilient and sustainable

Who is this course for?

We invite technical staff, policymakers, scientists, private sector professionals and programme/project managers who want to build resilient and sustainable food system in their home countries, to enrol. Participants should be proficient in English, and have at least a BSc degree or an equivalent academic qualification and preferably several years of work experience in the agricultural domain.

This course is no longer available
   Location : Online
Institution : Wageningen University & Research
Topics: : Food & Livelihoods
Level: : Beginner
Price: : 5250 EUR

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About The Landscape Academy

At the Global Landscapes Forum, we believe that learning is the foundation of long-lasting change. Through collaborative learning among diverse stakeholders, conflicts can be mediated and solved, and innovative solutions to global challenges can be created. For professionals currently working in their landscapes or landscapes around the world, we help them understand landscape approaches and how to operationalize them within their own contexts.

For this, the Landscape Academy brings together relevant online and offline learning opportunities that you can choose from to create a customized program. GLF helps future professionals build their knowledge and shape their careers. Find your course or curriculum today.