Certificate in Food Security: Assessment and Action
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The UOC is a leader in online education. We are progressive in our determination to champion open education that integrates new ideas and new technologies. We champion multilingualism and hold the UNESCO chair in e-learning.

The UOC relies on the latest in information and communication technologies. It offers an educational model based on personalization and full support of the student, beyond limitations of time and space.

The Food Security Information for Decision Making Programme aims at enhancing national capacity to generate, manage, and use food security information from different sectors for more effective policies and programmes.

 
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

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The food security e-learning courses have been produced with funding from the European Union.


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FAO-UOC Joint Certificate in Food Security:
Assessment and Action

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society are partnering to offer a fully accredited, online certificate in Food Security: Assessment and Action.

The certificate is an extension of the FAO’s Distance Learning course in Food Security Information for Action and is taught in the UOC's Virtural Campus by an international team of experts with extensive field experience. The Food Security Information for Action courses were developed by the FAO with funding from the European Union.

This certificate will provide students of all backgrounds with not only a strong and holistic understanding of food security but also the skills to assess and analyse food security projects and the tools to put those skills into action.

As a starting point, we review the concepts and tools used in food security analysis. We then consider food security and its relationship to vulnerability, hunger, malnutrition and poverty. Guidelines on how to interpret and use conceptual frameworks for analysing food security are also reviewed. Other topics include: tools to assess information systems related to food security analysis; designing, writing and increasing the impact of food security reports in different contexts, and; commonly used methods to assess food availability at regional, national and local levels.


Upon successful completion of the course, students will receive a  FAO-UOC Joint Certificate in Food Security: Assessment and Action, along with 15 credits (European Credit Transfer System). This certificate is fully transferable to the UOC's Master's in Food, Society and International Food Governance.

This programme effectively combines the FAO's experience and knowledge with the UOC's academic rigour and technological capacity.With this training you will be better prepared to undertake and support food security work in your community.


Courses run from
March 17 to July 16, 2010
Certificate fee €1200
To register or for more information, please email us at mailto:foodsystems@uoc.edu