This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on sustainable food systems, designed to equip policymakers and practitioners with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking and taking a sustainable food systems approach can help to significantly improve our work in project and policy design for sustainable food systems development and transformation.
This second course in the series explores key concepts for sustainable food systems in more detail, and presents an analytical framework to describe and analyse the complexity and various elements that constitute food systems.
Audience
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Farmer representatives
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Support services providers
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Consumers
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Agribusiness representatives
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Development practitioners
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Government policymakers
You will learn about
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The concepts of interlinkages and sustainability in food systems, including sustainability trade-offs
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The concept of value-added in sustainable food systems development
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Applying the Food System Wheel as an analytical framework to describe and analyse food systems
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The Structure - Conduct - Performance (S-C-P) and development paradigms to explain the dynamics of the Food System Wheel
Course structure
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Lesson 1 - Key concepts in sustainable food systems
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Lesson 2 - An analytical framework