#NA-04-12 Sustainable Food Production in a Changing Environment
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
EIT FoodDescription
Discover food supply chains from farm to fork
Please note this course runs without facilitation
How does food reach our plates? How is the food industry changing? What threats are there to food supply chains? How can we build a sustainable food industry?
Get answers to these questions and more with this course that explores food and agriculture in the modern world. You will learn about the complexity of the global food supply chain, the vulnerability of the food industry to emerging threats and the solutions to stopping these threats early. You will also consider the issues surrounding production of food of animal origin.
What topics will you cover?
- Threats to global food security of an environmental, biological or chemical nature
- Food integrity
- Water, soil and plant health
- Animal health and welfare
- Food safety and human health
- Climate change related to food security
Who will you learn with?
At the Dept of Veterinary Sciences, I study how natural/pollutants estrogen-mimicking compounds in the feed may affect the brain development and decrease fertility, meat quality, and animal welfare
DVM, Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Turin, Italy.
I am vet, working as a researcher at the Dept. of Veterinary Sciences – University of Torino. My field is the study of contaminant and drug residues in food of animal origin.
Who developed the course?
EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, with the aim to create a sustainable and future-proof food sector.
What Will I Learn?
- Discuss the interconnected one health approach to food production from farm to fork
- Illustrate knowledge and skills required to evaluate current and emerging risks to food safety and relate these to potential threats to human/animal health and global food security highlighting solutions to the issues
- Demonstrate the ability to critically assess the range of emerging risks that may be introduced during food production and manufacture systems and determine their potential impact on food safety and consumer health
- Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the range and types of food insecurity affecting food safety, traceability and authenticity, and the regulatory requirements and challenges to the maintenance of food quality/safety
- Examine the ethical & bioethical constraints of the food chain: at the crossroads of objects, subjects, regulations, institutions & governments
- Encourage pursuit of a career in research, industry or entrepreneurship related to the food industry sector by showcasing the rising star companies.
Topics for this course
Welcome to the Course
Welcome to the course00:01:50
Meet the Team
Course Participation
Soil Health
Water Health
Plant Health
Summary
The class was a little boring for me, but I really enjoyed the food safety and human health part of the class, because food safety is my biggest concern as a consumer.
In this course we learn about threats to the food supply chain. How can we build a sustainable food industry? That's great. There are so many problems with food safety these days.
In this course, I learn about the complexity of the global food supply chain, the vulnerability of the food industry to emerging threats, and solutions to prevent those threats early on, which is very helpful for my work.
We eat, but actually our food who knows how the food gets to our plate? How has the food industry changed? This course is very interesting.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for people looking for an introduction to food supply chains and the future of agriculture - it’s ideal for students and young people looking to learn more about careers in the food industry.