Deadline: 18 October 2017
Applications are open for The Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) Course on “Resilient and sustainable food systems for a food secure future”. The course starts from 9 April 2018 until Fri 20 April 2018 in the Netherlands.
This course aims to offer a systems thinking and systems dynamics approach on agriculture as well as skills and tools to design innovative, resilient and sustainable food systems. It looks at how to balance between producing food, managing natural resources, dealing with uncertainty and providing an livelihood base for the rural population. It will move beyond the technical realm looking also at the role and involvement of public, private and civil stakeholders for inclusion of social, environmental, economic, and political aspects.
Course objectives
The overall objectives of this course are to:
- Understand the global future challenges of food production and the effects on different scales of farming;
- Apply a system dynamics approach for analysing food systems in order to find new balances between producing food, managing natural resources, dealing with uncertainty and providing a livelihood base for the rural population in a changing world.
Knowledge and skills will be strengthened and after this two weeks course, applicants 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- The course welcomes 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.
How to Apply
Applications can be accessed online through the website. Applicants must first have to create an account on the website and register themselves for the course.
Eligible Countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cuba, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria , Thailand, Tunisia, Zimbabwe.
For more information, please visit Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems.