Short courses

Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture
  • Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Description: Challenges facing agriculture and food production systems and a coordinated approach towards sustainable food and agriculture. 
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English and Portuguese
  • Themes: Food production systems, agriculture, sustainability, agriculture policy, food security
Gender in Food and Nutrition Security
  • Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Description: The course helps raise awareness about the importance of addressing gender equality in food and nutrition security and agricultural policy and programming. It also provides concrete skills and tools that can be used in real-life policy and programming situations.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English and French
  • Themes: Gender, equity, food policy, nutrition, food security, programming
Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Food Systems
  • Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Description: Linkages between agriculture, food systems and nutrition. 
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English, French, Portuguese and Russian
  • Themes: Agriculture, food systems, nutrition, nutrition-sensitive intervention, policy
Introduction to IPC
  • Organisation: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
  • Description: This course introduces the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) as an analytical approach for decision-makers. It explains the concepts on which the IPC is based, and provides all the necessary information to appreciate and critically use IPC products.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English
  • Themes: Food security, malnutrition, governance, conceptual framework
Nutrition Essentials
  • Organisation: American Society for Nutrition
  • Description: This interactive online course helps you understand more about the foods you eat and how your body uses food to generate energy. You will learn how to build a healthy meal, follow easy-to-remember recommendations for food portions, and get tips to keep up healthy eating habits. This course is designed for any individual interested in learning the basics of good nutrition and healthy eating practices.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Fee required. English
  • Themes: Nutrition basics
Nutrition for Global Development
  • Organisation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
  • Description: This Master's-level module has been designed to explore the complicated problem of malnutrition in all its forms, highlighting its multi-sectoral causes, exploring the available evidence and identifying potential solutions.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English
  • Themes: Nutrition, food systems, climate change, humanitarian and fragile contexts, food security, interventions
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
  • Organisation: Tufts University
  • Description: Understanding the broad impacts of the food system in order to create effective policy and market solutions.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Fee required. English
  • Themes: Supply chain, policy, food systems, sustainability, nutrition, interventions
Sustainable Food Systems
  • Organisation: Food and Planet
  • Description: A two-hour self-paced course aimed at nutritionists and health professionals. Four areas of sustainability are covered: planet, nutrition, sociocultural, and economic
  • Geographic location: Global 
  • Access: Open access. English
  • Themes: Food systems, planetary health, sociocultural importance, nutrition and economics
Sustainable Food Systems Certificate
  • Organisation: Harvard University
  • Description: Issues of food sustainability through the lens of agroecology, biology, anthropology, environmental studies, economics, and nutrition.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Fee required. English
  • Themes: Food security, sustainability, anthropology, agroecology, environment, nutrition, economics
Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
  • Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Description: This course aims to equip project designers and managers with the concepts, principles and tools they need to leverage value chain approaches to improve nutrition through agriculture and food systems
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English, French and Spanish
  • Themes: Food and nutrition security, sustainable food systems, health 
Understanding the risk environment in agriculture
  • Organisation: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Description: Agriculture is a risky sector. Extreme weather conditions, pests and diseases and market uncertainties are just few examples of events that can negatively affect farming activities, posing a major threat to households livelihood and food security. This course will present an overview of concepts linked to agricultural risk management, describing which risks farmers face, within a holistic approach that covers the entire agrifood system.
  • Geographic location: Global
  • Access: Open access. English and French
  • Themes: Agriculture, food systems, food security, economics
FAO has other courses which may be of interest, they can be found at https://elearning.fao.org/

     

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    It is also very Important to Offer course in Agricultural Educational, training and Extension

    William Mwaisumo

    03 Dec 2023
    Thank you so much for this suggestion, William! Do you have any suggestions of high quality, accessible short courses on agricultural education, training, and extension that we could highlight on this page? You can submit any suggestions on our "Contact Us" page at https://www.anh-academy.org/scanr/about-scanr. Thank you!

    Elena Martinez

    12 Dec 2023
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