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Global Food Futures and Agri-food Systems Solutions
Sustainable AgribusinessCost $199 · . Course Length: 24 hours estimated
"The challenge is to deliver nutritious, safe and affordable food to a global population of over 9 billion in the coming decades, using less land, fewer inputs, with less waste and a lower environmental impact. All this has to be done in ways that are socially and...
Offered through edX | and created by DoaneX, Doane University | Taught by Dr. Kathleen Kevany, Sarah Pittoello, Chaiti Seth
Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management
Rated 4.8★ stars based on | 55 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 42 hours estimated
Learn about the impact of infectious disease on sustainable animal-based food production by understanding the science of growth, immunity, and infection and by learning the problem-solving skills needed to advance animal health and food production through optimal...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Taught by Dr. Jim Lowe, DVM, MS, Dip ABVP (Food Animal), Dr. Brian Aldridge, BVSc, MS, PhD, Dip ACVIM (Large Animal), MRCVS
Food as Medicine
Rated 4.4★ stars based on | 51 ratings · . Cost $84 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course will have broad general interest appeal to everyone interested in food, nutrition and health....
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by Monash University | Taught by Helen Truby, Melissa Adamski
Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century
Cost $44 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
Diets and Health Impacts of Production Food Security Food Governance Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more The course is designed for anyone...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Exeter | Taught by Natalia Lawrence, Dan Bebber, Bethan Stagg
Understanding Food Labels and Portion Sizes
Nutrition Education for the ConsumerCost $49 · . Course Length: 3 hours estimated
All of us have struggled to decipher the long list of ingredients and recommendations on our food labels. This course provides a deeper understanding of labeling standards and methods for estimating food portions essential for informed decision-making and healthy...
Offered through Coursera | and created by National Academy of Sports Medicine | Taught by NASM Faculty
Public Health Perspectives on Sustainable Diets
Cost $29 · . Course Length: 10 hours estimated
What we eat and how we produce that food have significant effects on human health and the sustainability of our planet. But what is a ‘sustainable’ diet? A sustainable diet, as defined by the FAO, promotes health and well-being and provides food security for the...
Offered through Coursera | and created by Johns Hopkins University | Taught by Roni Neff, Becky Ramsing, Brent Kim and others
Agri-Food Systems Analysis
Sustainable AgribusinessCost $199 · . Course Length: 24 hours estimated
Agri-Food systems are at the heart of at least 12 of the 17 United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The wide scope of the SDGs call for holistic approaches that integrate previously “siloed” food sustainability assessments. It recognizes that...
Offered through edX | and created by DoaneX, Doane University | Taught by Katherine Yamamoto, Amanda McKinney, Amanda McKinney, MD, FACLM
Improving Food Production with Agricultural Technology and Plant Biotechnology
Cost $74 · . Course Length: 9 hours estimated
Week One: Plant biotechnology Week Two: Agricultural technology Week Three
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Cambridge, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), EIT Food | Taught by Emma G, Thomas Engel, Cristobal Uauy and others
Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability
. Course Length: 35 hours estimated
Agriculture is more than waving fields of wheat; our ability to grow food from existing natural resources –and without decimating those resources –is key to sustainably feeding the world. In this course, learn about food security worldwide, the effects of...
Offered through edX | and created by SDGAcademyX, SDG Academy | Taught by Achim Dobermann, Ken Giller, Jessica Fanzo and others
Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective
Rated 5.0★ stars based on | 1 ratings · . . Course Length: 40 hours estimated
The Mediterranean region is one of the most biodiverse in the world, home to a complex and intricate patchwork of cultures, climates, and cuisines. Food systems in the region -- represented worldwide by the "Mediterranean diet" -- are equally complex, demanding...
Offered through edX | and created by SDGAcademyX, SDG Academy | Taught by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Alessio Cavicchi, Sonia Massari and others
Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 42 hours estimated
Crop production: learn about agriculture and food production for the future How much food will be available for humankind in the future? Feeding nine billion people in 2050 without exhausting the planetary reserves is perhaps the greatest challenge humanity has...
Offered through edX | and created by Wageningen University & Research, WageningenX | Taught by Ken Giller, Gerrie van de Ven, Harrie Lovenstein
Advanced gastrointestinal physiology
Health and medicine. Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Do you live to eat, or eat to live? Either way, no one can deny the importance of food and water in our everyday lives. The energy from food is carefully extracted through ingestion, digestion, and absorption, and requires one long tube with some organs attached....
Offered through Khan Academy
The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health
Rated 4.4★ stars based on | 96 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 27 hours estimated
The New Nordic Diet is a new food culture developed in 2009-13 with key emphasis on gastronomy, health, and environment. Major research in its effect on acceptability, behaviour and learning skills, and disease prevention have been conducted by the OPUS centre at...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Copenhagen | Taught by Dr Arne Astrup, MD, DMSc.
Feeding the World
Rated 4.6★ stars based on | 16 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 36 hours estimated
This course will explore the concepts driving current food production science (population growth, urbanization, emerging affluence, resource constraints, and underlying biological limits) with the main focus on livestock production. Each of the major food animal...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Pennsylvania | Taught by Dr. David Galligan, James Ferguson, Dr. David Galligan and others
Food for Thought
Rated 4.9★ stars based on | 22 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 50 hours estimated
Eating well and understanding the nuances of food has become a complicated and often confusing experience. Virtually every day brings news about some “miracle food” that we should be consuming or some "poison" we should be avoiding. One day it's tomatoes to...
Offered through edX | and created by McGillX, McGill | Taught by Ariel Fenster, David N. Harpp, Joe Schwarcz and others
Edible Insects
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 33 hours estimated
This English language course covers the science and sociology of insects as food and feed. Increasing media, investment, and public policy attention has been given over the years to the role insects may play in the future of food. Can eating insects really save...
Offered through Coursera | and created by National Taiwan University | Taught by Matan Shelomi
Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes
The Science of CookingCost $219 · . Course Length: 42 hours estimated
What’s living in your food? Many of the foods that we consume daily owe their distinct characteristics and flavors to microbes, specifically through a biochemical process of fermentation (using bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms to produce diverse foods)....
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Pia Sörensen, Roberto Kolter
Drying and Encapsulation of Food Ingredients in Powder Form
Cost $464 · . Course Length: 20 hours estimated
Educators will facilitate from 18 Feb 2018-17 March 2019 This course is for those working in food production, this includes food scientists and technologists, chemists, and food product developers.Topics CoveredFundamentals of heat and mass transfer Drying...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Hohenheim, ETH Zurich, EIT Food | Taught by Reinhard Kohlus, Nora Ruprecht, Jakob Fröhlich and others
Sustainable Agri-food Supply Chain Management
Sustainable AgribusinessCost $199 · . Course Length: 24 hours estimated
Sustainable agri-food chains should operate in a manner that exploits and optimizes the synergies among environmental protection, social fairness and economic growth. Today, societal stakeholders demand the management of a sustainable agri-food supply chain to...
Offered through edX | and created by DoaneX, Doane University | Taught by Tasha Richard
Preventing Childhood Obesity: an Early Start to Healthy Living
Cost $84 · . Course Length: 8 hours estimated
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more The course is designed for the parents and carers of children, childhood educators and childcare workers,...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Wollongong | Taught by Rute Santos, Alyce Mason, Tony Okely and others