Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century
This multidisciplinary course addressed current challenges and potential solutions to sustainably feeding the planet. The course covered changing food cultures, diets for personal and planetary health, the drivers of eating behaviour, how crops have changed the planet, over-fishing and fisheries, livestock farming and the environment, adapting to climate change, conserving soils, new technologies, empowering farmers and smallholders, food as a commodity, and ecosystem services in agriculture.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Dan Bebber
Senior Lecturer in Biosciences
University of Exeter
Dr Natalia Lawrence
Associate Professor in Psychology
University of Exeter
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate global patterns and trends of food consumption and production
- Discuss what sustainability means with reference to food
- Explain where and how to find reliable information about food
- Debate the main issues related to food
- Discuss how individuals choose their food and what effects this has
- Explore how technological advances are changing the food system
Syllabus
Diets and Health
- Changing food cultures
- Diets for personal and planetary health
- The drivers of eating behaviour
Impacts of Production
- How crops have changed the planet
- Over-fishing and fisheries
- Livestock farming and the environment
Food Security
- Adapting to climate change
- Conserving our soils
- Novel technologies
Food Governance
- Empowering farmers and smallholders
- Food as a commodity
- Ecosystem services
Issued on 29th December 2020
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