Food Security: How to Measure and Improve
This course enhances participants’ understanding of the challenges low- and middle-income countries face in achieving food security. It focuses on measurement tools and intervention design in different contexts.
Registration starts 2nd of June 2025.
Duration: 29/09–01/10/2025
Teaching format: Classroom
Course objective:
Ensuring food security and healthy nutrition for a growing population, while respecting the earth’s planetary boundaries and securing decent livelihoods for all is an urgent and complex challenge.
This course develops participants’ knowledge and understanding of the dilemmas low and middle-income countries face in achieving SDG 2, Zero Hunger. It focuses on relationships between conceptual understandings of food security, measurement tools, and intervention design. Participants examine approaches to sustainable food production in different contexts, and assess their economic, social, and environmental implications.
Key topics:
- Key Debates & Contested Issues
- Measurement of Food Security
- Food Security in Crises
- Approaches to Sustainable Production
- Designing Interventions
ECTS points: 2
Examination: An assignment will be distributed and completed during the course
Course fee: CHF 570
Lecturers:
- Shruti Patel, NADEL
- Guest lecturers
