Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Global Food Security: Addressing the Challenge
Lancaster University
This course defined the various components of the food security challenge and explored some of the different ways in which we might work to ensure that more people have access to a supply of nutritious safe food which is adequate to ensure an active healthy lifestyle.
8 weeks, 3 hours per week
Bill Davies CBE
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
Lancaster University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the broad spectrum of issues which contribute to food insecurity.
- Explore both mainstream agricultural production and alternative food supply chains in different parts of the world to consider how enhanced food production can address the food security challenge.
- Reflect on alternative ways in which we can increase peoples’ access to good quality and safe food in quantities that are adequate to ensure an active, healthy life style.
- Investigate the ways in which food has shaped our environmental and social landscapes.
Syllabus
- Is food security really just about food?
- In working to develop increase food security should we have concerns about health, social justice, environmental degradation and cultural diversity?
- From the local to the global: which scale of action is most appropriate?
- What are the likely impacts of climate change on food production?
- Can farmers successfully balance high productivity with appropriate environmental stewardship and can we produce more food while reducing essential inputs?
- What is the role of technology and innovation in promoting food security?
- Why do we waste so much food?
- Is my food safe and is it good for me?
- What are food systems and food chains?
- What is food poverty?
Issued on 19th November 2016
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