Global Food Systems Courses and Certifications

Understanding Agribusiness, Value Chains, and Consumers in Global Food Systems

5 ratings

Learn about the dynamic business of food and agriculture, exploring value chain thinking and the role consumers play in our rapidly evolving food systems.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Trust in Our Food: Understanding Food Supply Systems

How much do you trust your food? Learn about food supply systems, safety, sustainability, nutrition and quality.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Sustainable Global Food Systems

28 ratings at edX

How do we feed 11 billion people? Discover the importance of sustainable food systems on a global scale.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Feeding the World

257 ratings at Coursera

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.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Transformation of the Global Food System

1006 ratings at Coursera

Examine how food systems can feed 9-10 billion people within planetary boundaries: supporting small-scale farmers, transforming industrial agriculture, cutting food loss and waste, and shifting diets.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Challenges of Agribusiness Management

281 ratings at Coursera

Explore agribusiness from farm to retailer: commodity price transmission, the five largest agricultural systems, sustainable practices like crop rotation, and innovations from vertical farming to satellites.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Global Postharvest Loss Prevention: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Actors

178 ratings at Coursera

A third of all food is lost or wasted: examine grain postharvest loss through harvesting, drying and storage, its economics, prevention frameworks, and the global actor network.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Supply Chain of Agriculture

47 ratings at Coursera

Trace agricultural commodities from pre-farm inputs to the consumer: land use, farm production cycles, seed genetics, precision agriculture, industry consolidation, and environmental concerns.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Issues in Supply Chain Management

16 ratings at Coursera

Examine global agricultural trade policies, agreements, and barriers, and assess how economic disruptions, sustainability concerns, and emerging technologies reshape the production and distribution of food commodities.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

4 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?, explores how environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues and offers tools for making sense of the complexity that...

• OpenLearn
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Vision 2030 (EN)

Humanity is facing major global challenges and contradictions: increasing wealth but growing inequality; overconsumption on the one hand; malnutrition on the other; rising economic growth and extreme

• edX
• 8 weeks, 5-7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Global Food Futures and Agri-food Systems Solutions

Learners will analyze proposed solutions to some of the most pressing agri-food challenges and participate in creating innovative solutions to build a global food system in the face of rapidly changing climates, minimizing harm to Earth’s natural systems.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 10-15 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Nitrogen: A Global Challenge (Hindi)

1 rating

नाइट्रोजन की कृषि, जलवायु, वायु और जल पर दोहरी भूमिका को समझते हुए वैश्विक चुनौतियों के एकीकृत समाधान तलाशें।

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Nitrogen: A Global Challenge (Urdu)

1 rating

نائٹروجن کے عالمی چیلنجز، خوراک، آب و ہوا، ہوا و پانی کی آلودگی اور انسانی صحت کے باہمی تعلقات کا جائزہ لیں۔

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Nitrogen: A Global Challenge (Hungarian)

1 rating

A Föld népessége tart a 10 milliárdhoz, veszélyben az élelmiszer-, az ivóvíz-, az éghajlat- és az energiabiztonság. Vajon a nitrogén megoldás lehet ezekre a globális problémákra? Csak rajtunk áll!

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)