Continuing professional training
In this section, you will find short continuing professional development courses stemming from the Specialised Master’s in Innovation and Policy for Sustainable Food, which is aimed at candidates returning to or continuing their studies, and courses stemming from research-related projects in which the Chair is involved.
1. Modules from the IPAD Specialised Master’s programme available as short courses
The full IPAD programme runs over 13 months, but some of its modules can also be taken as short continuing professional development courses. This applies to the following modules:
- Analysis of food system governance
- Assessment of the environmental footprint of food systems
- Tools for the economic and social assessment of food systems
- Supporting innovation for sustainable development
- Urban policies for sustainable food systems
- Re-territorialisation of agriculture and food
- Standardisation of food systems, consumer expectations and practices
- Lobbying and advocacy
- Food, health and nutrition: new challenges and interventions
- Combating food insecurity, new forms of food solidarity and democracy
2. MINIPAD: new challenges and drivers for sustainable food systems
Are you involved in local food projects, initiatives to tackle food insecurity, nutrition and dietetics, or catering? Come and spend some time gaining knowledge, reflecting and sharing best practice on sustainable food.
This course has been developed by the teaching team of the Specialised Master’s® in Innovations and Policies for Sustainable Food at Institut Agro Montpellier, CIRAD and the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, drawing on nearly 15 years of expertise in the field.
The aim of this course is:
- to gain a better understanding of the industrialisation of the food system and its environmental, health, social, economic and political challenges in light of recent changes in societal contexts;
- to identify the range of social, entrepreneurial and policy innovations needed to build new sustainable models for food;
- to develop a critical perspective on certain key concepts in sustainable food in order to make courses of action more relevant and effective.