Deadline:21 October 2014
The two-week international course on Food Security in an urbanizing society: From home gardens to agro-parks: working towards resilient agri-food systems serving densely populated areas to be held from 9-20 March 2015 in the Netherlands is now open for applications. The course addresses the challenges to food security, explores potential pathways for sustainable urban development and brings together multi-disciplinary innovative ideas, and visions to improve food security for the cities of tomorrow.
Issues
- Food production in and around cities
- Food logistics
- Selling food in the city
- Relations between agri-food systems/food & nutrition security and other grand challenges that urbanizing societies are facing
- The use of multi-stakeholder processes to design policies and new forms of governance in urban and regional food production systems
The course focuses on how Metropolitan Food Cluster (MFC) and other innovative approaches can be adapted to better facilitate rural-urban integration, and to enhance food chains such that access to nutritious, adequate quantities of food to urban dwellers can be assured while sustaining the viability of the of the production areas. The participants will get access to the latest concepts developed within the wider Wageningen UR community. The participants will be fully acquainted with the new, innovative but very practical MFC approach.
The participants of the two-week training course will become capable to –
- Understand the basic premises of the metropolitan food cluster, sub-sector and spatial planning approaches , and how these can be integrated to ensure nutritious food to all strata of rural and urban communities
- Understand and intervene in complex rural-urban planning processes from an integrated, holistic and multi-stakeholder perspective
- Have strengthened skills to develop and facilitate multi-stakeholder processes
Eligibility Criteria
Participants need to have several years of professional work experience in one of the following fields: rural and/or urban planning, local sub-sector, agribusiness cluster development and/or spatial planning, rural/urban livelihoods governance, sustainable development or other relevant areas.
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