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Farm to Fork: Sustainable Food Production in a Changing Environment (FutureLearn)

Understand how food goes from farm to fork: explore food security, supply chains, food production and agriculture. Discover food supply chains from farm to fork. How does food reach our plates? How is the food industry changing? What threats are there to food supply chains? How can we build [...]

Food and Nutrition Security in Urbanizing Landscapes (edX)

Our landscapes are urbanizing, which has a serious impact on food and nutrition. Learn to look beyond the sectoral and administrative boundaries of your work and see how the rural and the urban connect around food. Look at your landscape from a spatial and integrated food systems perspective to [...]

Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability (edX)

How do we create a healthy and sustainable diet for the growing world population? Agriculture is more than waving fields of wheat; our ability to grow food from existing natural resources – and without decimating those resources – is key to sustainably feeding the world. In this course, learn [...]

A Nutritional Approach to Agriculture and Food Security (FutureLearn)

Jan 10th 2022
A Nutritional Approach to Agriculture and Food Security (FutureLearn)
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Develop skills to apply and evaluate innovative solutions that place nutrition at the heart of a sustainable food system. Modern agriculture and global food systems have become very complex and do not always provide people with affordable and nutritious food. This course presents current research, which aims to place [...]

Del desperdicio al valor: cómo abordar el desperdicio de alimentos (FutureLearn)

Jan 3rd 2022
Del desperdicio al valor: cómo abordar el desperdicio de alimentos (FutureLearn)
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Descubra las causas y el impacto del desperdicio de alimentos y aprenda cómo abordarlo a nivel personal, comunitario y nacional. Conozca cómo la lucha contra el desperdicio y la pérdida de alimentos puede ayud. La importante contribución del sistema alimentario al cambio climático está ampliamente reconocida y los consumidores [...]

Logística agrícola sostenible (edX)

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Logística agrícola sostenible (edX)
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Aprende las tendencias en el sector agrícola, las buenas prácticas agroindustriales y la optimización de procesos a lo largo de la red de valor. De acuerdo con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura - FAO-, se espera que para el 2050 la producción [...]
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Ocean Science in Action: Addressing Marine Ecosystems and Food Security in the Western Indian Ocean (FutureLearn)

Explore how innovative marine technologies can tackle the challenges of the sustainable management of marine ecosystems. Discover the new technologies that can aid marine resource management. Journey to the Western Indian Ocean alongside experts at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre to learn how we can measure and monitor the [...]

AGRIMONITOR: Agricultural Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (edX)

Learn the effects of agricultural policy in the Caribbean and Latin America, and analyze them using the AGRIMONITOR platform, developed by the IDB. As a consumer, you know the price of the food that you consume daily. However, do you know why your food costs this amount and why [...]

Climate Change: Solutions (FutureLearn)

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Climate Change: Solutions (FutureLearn)
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Explore the potential solutions to climate change and how they relate to the UN's sustainable development goals. Man-made climate change is one of the biggest threats to the world. The effects are already being seen through receding glaciers, ocean acidification and an increasingly vulnerable food supply. It’s vital we [...]

Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century (FutureLearn)

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Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century (FutureLearn)
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Find out what sustainability means for food and explore the challenges of our journey towards a more sustainable food future. Learn how culture, sustainability, and technology is changing the food system. Food production has transformed our planet. 40% of the land’s surface is used for agriculture, soils and freshwater [...]