Food and Nutrition Security in Urban Landscapes
Learn to address food security challenges in urbanizing areas through integrated spatial and systems approaches for sustainable development.
Learn to address food security challenges in urbanizing areas through integrated spatial and systems approaches for sustainable development.
This comprehensive course explores the complex relationships between urbanization and food security. Students learn to analyze and address food and nutrition challenges in changing landscapes, understanding how urban expansion affects resource distribution and food systems. The course emphasizes an integrated approach, bridging the rural-urban divide through systems thinking and stakeholder collaboration. Participants develop skills in food system analysis, landscape governance, and stakeholder mobilization. Through practical applications and case studies, students learn to create effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security in urban and peri-urban environments. The course, developed in partnership with the Global Landscapes Forum and UN Environment Program, provides tools and frameworks for implementing sustainable food security solutions.
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What you'll learn
Understand key concepts of food and nutrition security in urbanizing landscapes
Analyze city region food systems using various assessment tools
Apply principles of landscape governance and food policy development
Develop strategies for rural-urban collaboration and stakeholder engagement
Identify leverage points for sustainable change in food systems
Create compelling narratives to mobilize stakeholders and drive change
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There are 4 modules in this course
The course provides a comprehensive understanding of food and nutrition security challenges in urbanizing landscapes. Through four modules, students explore key concepts, tools for food system analysis, governance principles, and strategies for stakeholder mobilization. The curriculum emphasizes practical applications, systems thinking, and cross-sector collaboration, enabling participants to develop effective solutions for their specific contexts.
Setting the Scene
Module 1
Your City Region Food System
Module 2
Mobilizing others
Module 3
Planting a Seed of Change
Module 4
Fee Structure
Instructors
1 Course
Urban Food Systems and Governance Expert
Lotte Roosendaal serves as Urban Food Systems Advisor at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), where she specializes in food systems governance and spatial approaches to food and nutrition security. After completing her Master of Science in International Development at Radboud University, she has focused on bridging urban-rural divides in food systems through transdisciplinary approaches. Her work emphasizes the integration of spatial perspectives in food system governance, particularly in urbanizing landscapes. At WCDI, she contributes to capacity strengthening initiatives and leads courses on landscape governance and food security, including the MOOC "Food and Nutrition Security in Urbanising Landscapes." Her expertise spans landscape approaches, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and facilitating learning processes, with particular emphasis on addressing food security challenges in urban-rural contexts. Through her role, she works to strengthen rural-urban linkages and improve food system governance by engaging diverse stakeholders and promoting integrated approaches to food and nutrition security.
1 Course
Forest Conservation and Sustainable Development Scholar
Nistia Sekar Ningati is pursuing her Master's degree in Forest and Nature Conservation at Wageningen University & Research, specializing in Management, Policy and Society with a focus on Sustainable Development Diplomacy. After earning her Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, she gained valuable experience as a junior researcher studying peatland native tree species at an Indonesian pulp and paper company's Research and Development Center for four years. Her expertise spans landscape management, tropical peatlands restoration, and traditional ecological knowledge. As a digital host at the 2018 Global Landscapes Forum Bonn and participant in the Youth in Landscape Initiative Workshop, she has demonstrated her commitment to youth empowerment and sustainable development. Currently active in the Sustainable Development Diplomacy Track's student committee, she combines her practical experience in peatland research with academic pursuits in conservation policy and ecotourism development, bringing a unique perspective to forest conservation and sustainable landscape management.
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