Do you want to learn how to design interventions, strategies and policies for resilient and sustainable food systems in your own local context? Do you want to better understand the global future challenges of food production, the effects on different scales of farming and how to apply a systems dynamics approach for analysing food systems? If yes, then this 2021 Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems for a Food-Secure Future course is for you.

In this course, your knowledge and skills will be strengthened. After this course, you will:

• Have a deeper understanding on how global development trends and challenges affect farming practices and policies at local and national levels;
• Be able to use various tools and techniques to analyse food systems and to identify critical issues for change;
• Be able to develop innovative and practical oriented interventions, strategies and policies for transition to resilient and sustainable food systems, which are socially, economically and ecologically balanced;
• Understand the role of stakeholders and involve them in making food systems more resilient and sustainable.

Course Date

• Date: Mon 29 March 2021 until Fri 23 April 2021
• Duration: Part-time, 20hrs per week (4 weeks)
• Venue: Facilitated online sessions

Criteria

The Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) invites technical staff, policymakers, scientists, private sector professionals and programme / project managers who want to build resilient and sustainable food system in their home countries, to enrol. Participants should be proficient in English, and have at least a BSc degree or an equivalent academic qualification and preferably several years of work experience in the agricultural domain.

For more information, visit CDI.