Sustainable Food

This course focuses on healthy and sustainable foods. After reviewing the crucial role of food for both health and the environment, we first look at the carbon footprint and environmental impacts of multiple ingredients and more complex foods. We also detail a health-based approach to quantify the impact of [...]

Dive into the environmental and social impacts of different fishing practices and discover sustainable approaches and innovations. Understand the true environmental and social impact of fisheries and aquaculture. As we discover more about unsustainable and damaging fishing practices, it’s important to have an accurate understanding of the problem in [...]

Learn what makes up a healthy, sustainable diet and how certain food types can help to treat and prevent disease. Explore the relationship between health, nutrition, and sustainability. Diet is the biggest single risk factor for preventable diseases in the world and a key driver of diabetes, heart disease, [...]

Learn the basics of sustainable development -- what it is, why it's important and how we can achieve it. Sustainable development is the most urgent challenge facing humanity.

The world has adopted an ambitious agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals, to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. Learn how we can achieve these goals through careful planning and engagement of diverse stakeholders.

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 [...]

Discover the link between food and climate change and learn about the collective journey towards a sustainable global diet. Explore the importance of food choices in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What we choose to eat matters. Did you know that a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions come from [...]