Food Systems, Culture and Sustainability

How food is produced, distributed and eaten, and how culture, equity and the environment shape what we eat.

NUTR-420 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Nutrition and Dietetics

Course content

  1. 1What a food system isComing
  2. 2Agriculture and food productionComing
  3. 3Food processing and distributionComing
  4. 4Food and cultureComing
  5. 5Traditional and Indigenous food systemsComing
  6. 6Food wasteComing
  7. 7Diets and the environmentComing
  8. 8Plant-based and sustainable dietsComing
  9. 9Food sovereignty and food justiceComing
  10. 10The global food systemComing
  11. 11Policy for sustainable food systemsComing
  12. 12Project: analysing a local food systemComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

How food is produced, distributed and eaten, and how culture, equity and the environment shape what we eat.

Part of the Health Sciences stream, typically taken in year 4.