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Training provider: Enterprises University of Pretoria
Training Type: Online
Location: Online
Cost: R Contact for more information
On Demand
Course Duration: 2 Months
Gain valuable insights, skills, knowledge and SACNASP CPD points and enhance your career. Learn about novel approaches for achieving global food and nutrition security using a digital tool to assess and analyse food security.
Whether you’re new or established within in the food and nutrition security environment, this opportunity will help you excel and gain new insights, perspectives, skills and knowledge to advance your career and contribute towards addressing the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The Course in Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) will provide you with knowledge on what food and nutrition security is, why it matters and the impact on policies and programmes adopted to fight hunger and malnutrition. Achieving nutrition and food security globally is a complex and multi-faceted challenge, which requires novel approaches, evidence, and
new policy and institutional enabling environments. The shift is to broaden the agricultural focus in Africa from aiming to attain food security, to incorporating nutritional security.
The unique offering of this course is the comprehensive digitally enabled food and livelihood collection system as a valuable tool and method to analyse and assess food security.
This course covers the interlinkages between food, nutrition, agri-food systems and food policies, and the importance of adopting a multisectoral and multidisciplinary approach.
By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
• Understand food and nutrition security concepts and complexity
• Apply food security indicators evaluation methods
• Learn about the objective tree logical framework approaches to food and nutrition security programmes
• Map a basic value chain and understand the value of the commercialisation of value chains
• Using consumer behaviour as a tool to create more sustainable food systems
• Understand the tools and methods used to analyse food security
• Carry out an assessment of household food security
• Understand the policies associated with food and nutrition security
• Contribute to building capacity required across research and policy to tackle this multi-faceted challenge, and
help avoid the policy paralysis which in some countries led to little or no progress towards addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
To be eligible for the Course in Food and Nutrition Security, candidates
should have a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition, Epidemiology, Food or
Agricultural Science and Economics, or any related field. However,
professionals who are working in the field and do not possess the
aforementioned qualifications are also encouraged to apply. Interested
applicants who do not meet the prerequisite qualifications are required
to submit their CV for consideration.
The Course in Food and Nutrition Security is suitable for delegates who are involved in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of food and nutrition security programmes in the areas of nutrition, food security, food systems, food economics, public health nutrition, agriculture extension, consumer and food science. This course is suitable for Agricultural
extension officers, Nutritionists and dieticians, Public health
professionals, Food industry professionals, Policy makers and advisors,
NGOs working in food and nutrition security, Community development
workers, Researchers and academics in the field of food and nutrition
security, Analysts, Government officials involved in food and nutrition security
policies and programs, Health and social care professionals, and other
professionals interested in learning more about food and nutrition
security.
