Future Food Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century at University of Exeter, Exeter

The Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century online programme is offered by the online educational platform FutureLearn and is developed by the University of Exeter. The course helps the candidates explore the necessity of food security and sustainability in agriculture. It is a self-study course held for four weeks with three hours of study, giving the opportunity to discuss ideas with other trainees. 

The course instruction allows the candidates to know about the dominance of the huge transnational companies over the smaller businesses in the grain supplying industry and the exploitation of the earth’s surface for agriculture. It describes the role of the techniques of agroecological food systems that can solve the economic, environmental, and social challenges in the food sector regarding diet, health, and food production. The knowledge about the global food systems from the perspective of an individual’s food choice to the agricultural influence and climate change is gained through the course training. It helps the learners analyse the concepts of consumption and production to comprehend the importance of sustainability in the agriculture and food systems in the future.