Sustainable Food Systems and Global Health
Explore the challenges and solutions for creating sustainable food systems that ensure food security and promote planetary health.
Explore the challenges and solutions for creating sustainable food systems that ensure food security and promote planetary health.
This comprehensive course examines modern food systems through multiple lenses, analyzing their impact on human health, environmental sustainability, and global food security. Students explore the complex factors shaping current food systems, including historical, political, economic, and environmental influences. The course covers critical concepts like food sovereignty, nutrition transition, and agroecology while presenting real-world initiatives and solutions for building more sustainable food systems.
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What you'll learn
Analyze factors influencing global food systems and their sustainability
Understand the connection between food systems and climate change
Explore the relationship between food security and food sovereignty
Evaluate alternative food systems and agroecological approaches
Assess interventions for creating sustainable food networks
Apply One Health concepts to food system analysis
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Module Description
This course provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable food systems and their role in addressing global challenges. The curriculum explores the relationships between food systems, human health, and environmental sustainability. Through case studies and global examples, students learn about alternative food systems, agroecological approaches, and strategies for building resilient food networks that support both human and planetary health.
Fee Structure
Instructors
3 Courses
Food Systems and Public Health Research Scholar
Sabrina Rimouche is pursuing her PhD in nutrition at the Université de Montréal under Professor Jean-Claude Moubarac's supervision at the Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique (CReSP). With a Bachelor's in Biomedical Sciences from Monash University and a Master's in Public Health specializing in Global Health from the Université de Montréal, she focuses her research on the economic, environmental, and political impacts of ultra-processed foods. Her work includes collaborations with the Heart and Stroke Foundation to study impacts on Canadian farmers' incomes and with CIRAIG to develop new food sustainability assessment methods. Her experience includes valuable work at the FAO headquarters on sustainable food systems and non-communicable disease prevention policies. She dedicates her research to finding innovative solutions for contemporary food challenges, emphasizing practices that benefit human health, animal welfare, and environmental sustainability.
3 Courses
Nutrition Policy and Public Health Researcher
Louna Maria Hardan is pursuing her Master's degree at the Université de Montréal's Department of Nutrition under Dr. Malek Batal's supervision within CIENS. Following her bachelor's degree in nutrition from the same university, she has focused her research on examining the impact of front-of-pack labeling on food quality in Quito, Ecuador. Her professional experience includes a significant internship with the United Nations High-Level Panel on Food Security and Nutrition, where she developed expertise in food systems, food security, and public policy. As a registered dietitian, she combines her clinical knowledge with research interests in public health nutrition, particularly focusing on how food labeling policies can influence population health outcomes and consumer behavior.
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