Organisers
About the course
This course will provide you with an overview of our world’s food system and its many impacts from the individual to the global scale.
You will gain further appreciation of the complex implications of choices that are made along the food supply chain. You will be challenged to think critically about how the global food system may need to change to adapt to future economic and environmental conditions.
Course outline
This course is organized around fifteen questions that span our world's food system, its impacts, and its future:
- What is food?
- What foods do we eat?
- How do we prepare our food?
- How and where did our food originate?
- How and where do we grow our food?
- How do we facilitate the trade and transfer of our food?
- How do we process and distribute our food?
- How do we choose what to eat?
- How does what we eat affect our health?
- How does what we eat affect our environment?
- How much food will we need in the future?
- What challenges do we face in reforming the global food system?
- How do we assess the sustainability of the global food system?
- How can we provide more food more sustainably?
- How can we each contribute to a more sustainable global food system?
Participants background
No background is required
Resources needed for course
An internet connection and an enthusiastic attitude!
Registration
To sign up for the course, please click here
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