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Sustainable Food Security: Food Access
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Setting the scene
Introduction to food access as one of the pillars of global food security
Week 2: Households accessing and allocating food
Introduction to social and economic determinants shaping access to food between and within households
Week 3: Traders arranging food access in local markets
Introduction to distribution and trading food at the local level
Week 4: National policy makers governing food access
Introduction to food policy and how political choices at the national level affect access to food
Week 5: Negotiators setting international trade rules for food access
Introducing the role of international trade for food access and its economic, social and cultural implications
Week 6: connecting the ingredients
Integration of levels and actors
Prerequisite
The prerequisites are secondary school or a first/second year BSc.
Instructors
Marrit van den Berg
Associate Professor at the Development Economics group
Wageningen University & Research
Hilde Bras
Personal Professor of Global Comparative Demography
Wageningen University & Research
Jeroen Candel
Assistant Professor in the Public Administration and Policy Group
Wageningen University & Research
Jessica Duncan
Assistant Professor in the Rural Sociology Group
Wageningen University & Research
Ewout Frankema
Professor and Chair of Rural and Environmental History
Wageningen University & Research
Peter Oosterveer
Personal Professor
Wageningen University & Research
Maja Slingerland
Associate Professor
Wageningen University & Research
Sietze Vellema
Associate Professor at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group
Wageningen University & Research
Editor
Wageningue University is located in Wageningue, the Netherlands. Its campus is located on the outskirts of the city, which allows it to plan numerous extensions to its premises, all of which are already ultra-modern, due to its scientific nature. The university focuses on life sciences, sociology, business relations and natural resources.
In particular, the University is home to the Alterra Institute for multidisciplinary research into the artificial and man-made environment (rural environment, urban ecology, green spaces, green webs).
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