970021 The challenges to the integrity and resilience of the global food supply systems
- Type
- Lecture
- Semester hours
- 2
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Sommersemester 2023
- Languages of instruction
- Englisch
- Content
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This lecture course will provide insight into to the global challenges to the Integrity and resilience of the entire global food supply system.
Case studies will be presented and discussed with the students. A food system based on the principles of integrity must include food safety, human nutrition, sustainability and understand the importance of ethics and respect.
Food fraud can destroy integrity and occurs in our complex food networks and how to detect and prevent cases of food crime will form an important part of this training course. With challenges such as COVID, the war in Ukraine and our climate crisis we must become much more resilient to shocks in the global food supply system and examples of national efforts to achieve this will be presented and discussed.
- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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The student will gain an understanding of the complexity and challenges of the global food supply system gained. How to feed the world’s growing population with food that is nutritious, safe and sustainable against a backdrop of climate change, pollution, water shortages and supply shocks will be focal points. The causes of accidental and deliberate contamination of the food system will be outlined to the student. A highly interactive approach with students will be used.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.