Course summary
Access to good and healthy food is a basic human right. However, in 2023, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that about 28.9% of the global population was food insecure. Since 2019, the prevalence of food insecurity has increased globally. Several challenges are generating this complex situation, such as:
- food access and affordability
- food availability and utilisation
- climate shocks
- finite resources
- political crises
- globalisation
- global shocks as the Covid-19 pandemic
- cost of living crisis
- urbanisation
- global food shortages
- increasing food prices
- the transformation of the food system
- food supply chain
- diet and nutrition
- technology and innovation
- trade
- food waste
- conservation
- circular economy
- climate change
- income distribution
- gender inequality
- influencing human behaviour
Modules
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The University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL