Course: Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) aims to address the interlinked challenges of climate change and food security, which measures food availability and people’s access to it. CSA has three goals: to reduce …

Here, Prof Stephen Sitch describes how agriculture contributes towards to climate change and how agriculture itself is impacted by climate change in terms of future crop and pest distributions. In …

Well done for reaching the end of Week 2 of Future Food. We hope you enjoyed it, and now feel you have a better understanding of the impacts of food …

There are numerous arguments for reducing meat consumption: health, animal welfare, biodiversity, carbon footprint, water footprint, and soil conservation. Health In Week 1 (e.g. Step 1.8) we found out about …

In this video, Dr Mark van der Giezen discusses global meat consumption and highlights the differences between livestock production systems in terms of greenhouse emissions. The next step is a …

In this video, Dr Jamie Stevens talks about how he uses population genetics to monitor salmon stocks and the effect of commercial fishing on different fish populations. Now move on …

Here, Dr Mark van der Giezen talks about the increase of global fish consumption and the challenges global fisheries and aquacultures face. This is followed by another video in which …

Dr Dan Bebber demonstrates how to access statistical data, on crop production, using the UN FAOSTAT database. As we mentioned before, it might be useful to open the FAOSTAT page …

Most countries around the world keep records of what farmers produce, where they produce it, and how this has changed over time. Records are also kept on what agricultural products …

In this video, Dr Dan Bebber shows where and how crops were domesticated and how agricultural developments changed the world’s ecosystems. In the next step we will introduce you to …

Well done for reaching the end of Week 1 of Future Food. We hope you enjoyed it, and now feel you have a better understanding of Diets and Health, including: …

In this video, Prof. Natalia Lawrence explains what drives our food choices, including how conscious and unconscious processes interact. You will learn about some different strategies that help people stick …

As we just heard in the video, people in developed countries, and those undergoing a ‘nutrition transition’ in developing countries, are eating too much red meat, saturated fat, processed foods …

In this video, Dr Rob Andrew discusses the key components of healthy diets, describes what is the effect of urbanisation on people’s health and highlights the importance of eating five …

Here, Prof Harry G. West talks about how what the world eats is changing, describes the history of human diets and what diet globalisation means to food production. In the …