Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Agriculture, nutrition, and health

Organisation: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Description: Explores the multi-sectoral links between agriculture, nutrition and health and consider how these interactions might be used to promote pro-poor agricultural development, reduce food and nutrition insecurity and improve the health of the poor.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Agriculture, nutrition, health, food security, programming, food systems, gender, research methods

Agri-Food Systems Analysis

Organisation: Institute for Human and Planetary Health, Doane University
Description: Understanding and evaluating sustainability metrics in relation to agri-food systems.
Geographic location: Non-specific
Access: Open access
Themes: Agriculture, food systems, sustainability, climate change, health policy, health

Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability

Organisation: SDG Academy
Description: In this course, learn about food security worldwide, the effects of malnutrition, how we manage ecosystems that provide food resources and more. You’ll emerge from this course with a clear answer to the question: What can I do to make food consumption and production more sustainable?
Geographic location: Non-specific
Access: Open access
Themes: Ecology, sustainability and environment, food security, nutrition and dietetics (including emergency nutrition), policy

Food and Our Future: Sustainable Food Systems in Southeast Asia

Organisation: Stockholm Environment Institute
Description: Explores how natural resources are currently used to take the food we eat from the field or ocean to our plates.
Geographic location: Southeast Asia
Access: Open access
Themes: Food systems, sustainability, environment, urbanisation, governance

Food science and nutrition: from the farm to you

Organisation: University of Leeds
Description: How food science and nutrition helps us to understand and study the fascinating world of food, including the supply chain, food technologies, and the differential nutrition needs across varying contexts.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Food systems, supply chain, nutrition, food chemistry, agriculture

Future of Food

Organisation: Penn State University
Description: Introductory-level science course that emphasizes the challenges facing food systems in the 21st century, including issues of sustainability, resilience, and adaptive capacity, and the challenges posed by food insecurity and modern diets to human health and well-being.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Food security, nutrition, health, sustainability, food systems

Gender in Food and Nutrition Security

Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Description: The importance of addressing gender equality in food and nutrition security and agricultural policy and programming.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Gender, food security, nutrition, policy, programming

Grand challenges: Food for thought

Organisation: Exeter University, Eden Project
Description: This course aims to educate you in the way that every human being can reduce their impact on our planet and inspire you to make global connections to tackle sustainability issues.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Sustainability, environment, food production, case study

Nutrition and Food Systems

Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Description: Professionals working in policy and institutional environments related to food, need to have the skills to design, implement, monitor and evaluate policies and programmes in a holistic and integrated way. They should be able to apply “systems thinking” in support of equitable, sustainable food systems and healthy diets. This MOOC offers an overview of food systems approaches, presents the components of food systems and analyses a range of pathways for addressing major challenges preventing the food systems from delivering healthy diets, in a sustainable way, for improved nutrition.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access, this course will take place between 17 September and 24 October 2021.
Themes: Food systems, healthy diets, sustainability, equity, systems thinking

Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition
Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition
Nutrition and Health: Food Risks

Organisation: Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
Description: Micronutrient and malnutrition and how they impact health; Macronutrients and overnutrition and how they impact health; Health hazards present in food.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Nutrition, global and public health nutrition, food chemistry, food safety

Sustainable Food Security: The value of systems thinking
Sustainable Food Security: Food Access
Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production

Organisation: Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
Description: Principles of a systems approach to food production systems with a focus on environmental sustainability; The basic principles of food access and food decision-making from a multi-level perspective; Production ecology and the ‘availability pillar’ of global food security that lie at the heart of food production.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Food security, environment, sustainability, food safety, food access, ecology

Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective
Water: Addressing the Global Crisis
Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability
Global Public Health

Organisation: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Academy
Description: Food sustainability, value chains and the interlinkages from production to consumption; Linkages between water, environment, and societal development; Food security, malnutrition, and the management of ecosystems that provide food resources; Institutions, infrastructure and the interplay of actors that constitute global health.
Geographic location: Mediterranean region, Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Sustainability, value chains, agriculture policy, agriculture, food systems, environment, water, malnutrition, food security, global health, poverty reduction, gender

The Future of Farming: Exploring Climate Smart Agriculture

Organisation: University of Reading
Description: Principles and practical applications of Climate Smart Agriculture: mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaption to climate change and stable or increased food production in the context of European dairy farming and wine production.
Geographic location: Europe
Access: Open access
Themes: Climate change, agriculture, sustainability, food security, food systems

The Health Effects of Climate Change

Organisation: Harvard University
Description: By looking at air quality, nutrition, infectious diseases, and human migration, this course will show you how increases in greenhouse gases impact public health.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Climate change, environment, nutrition, research methods, health

Trust in our food: Understanding food supply systems

Organisation: University of Reading
Description: Explores the challenges and responsibilities of different people in the food system, including the role of the consumer and assess the information available to consumers relating to issues of food safety, nutrition and quality, sustainability of production methods and how these affect consumer trust.
Geographic location: Global
Access: Open access
Themes: Food systems, supply chain, food safety, sustainability

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