Food and Nutrition Security in Urbanising Landscapes

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متاح الآن إلى 2024-11-19
14.00 ساعة تعليمية
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Food and nutrition insecurity in an urban izing world
Our landscapes are changing. As towns and megacities expand, they increasingly place claim on limited natural resources, such as water and land. In turn, this competition for resources places rural areas under pressure, further aggravated by climate change and rural-urban migration. Yet, these areas are essential for producing food for a growing population. These changes in the landscape have a serious impact on food and nutrition.

Overnutrition is on the rise in one part of the landscape, resulting in lifestyle related diseases, such as obesity, type II diabetes and heart disease. At the same time undernutrition persist in other areas, causing a.o. increased mortality and poor childhood development. While some consumers are stuck in food deserts, with limited to no access to fresh produce, producers may have difficulty finding profitable markets. City governments and urban planners can play a key role in addressing these issues by putting food on the urban agenda, yet many cities lack a food agenda.

Strengthen rural-urban linkages in your landscape
Although urban, peri-urban and rural parts of the landscape are inextricably linked, urban development and rural development often occur in isolation of one another. In this course, co-produced with the Global Landscapes Forum and the UN Environment Program, you will learn to look beyond the boundaries of your personal expertise and geographic location. Taking on an integrated spatial and food systems perspective opens up possibilities to bring about structural change.

You will become acquainted with a variety of tools to analyze food and nutrition issues and their relation to your rural-urban landscape, which can help you to:

  • Raise awareness on the importance of a systems approach to FNS in your landscape
  • Think of ways to strengthen or create structural collaboration between rural and urban stakeholders
  • Jointly work towards FNS

You will bring your learnings together in a compelling story to mobilize key stakeholders in your rural-urban landscape. You will also explore your role to contribute to breaking the rural-urban divide.

For whom?
So, whether you are a researcher, an advisor working for an international NGO or multilateral agency (f.e. Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)), a nutrition officer or an urban planner, a member of a farmer’s association or a policy maker, join this course – created in collaboration between GLF, WUR and UNEP – and start addressing food and nutrition insecurity in your urbanizing landscape.

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Lotte Roosendaal
Lotte Roosendaal

Lotte Roosendaal works as Urban Food Systems advisor at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research (WUR). She has a background in global health and international development studies and focuses her work at WCDI on urban food systems governance and food and nutrition from a spatial perspective as well as capacity strengthening on these topics.

Nistia Sekar Ningati
Nistia Sekar Ningati

Nistia is a master's student of Forest and Nature Conservation, specializing in Management, Policy and Society with a special track in Sustainable Development Diplomacy. She earned her bachelor of science in forestry from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Prior to coming to the Netherlands, she worked as a junior researcher of peatland native tree species at the Research and Development Center of an Indonesian pulp and paper company for 4 years. In 2018, she was a digital host at the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn and was a participant in the Youth in Landscape Initiative Workshop. Nistia is interested in landscape management, tropical peatlands restoration, traditional ecological knowledge, ecotourism and youth empowerment. Currently, she has been actively involved in a student activity committee of Sustainable Development Diplomacy Track.

Tossa Harding
Tossa Harding

Tossa works as Learning Design Advisor at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research. She has a background in environmental systems analysis and social sciences, and focuses on the role of learning in systems transformation. Her interests lie in systems thinking and improving the relationship between people and nature as a way to solve the complex issues the world faces today. She believes in the power of education in building capacities for sustainable development and transformative action. For this reason Tossa has been involved with the development of online courses in different capacities. She sees online education as a means to empower people to contribute to a positive change in the world.

Cora van Oosten
Cora van Oosten

Cora van Oosten is a Human Geographer with over 25 years of international experience in landscape approaches, governance, and participatory planning.

She has worked as senior adviser, project manager and team leader, usually on long term assignment in Africa (Kenya, Burkina Faso, Ghana), Latin America (Bolivia) and Asia (Cambodia).

At present, Cora is employed as senior project leader at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (Wageningen University, Netherlands), where she is in charge of a project portfolio related to landscape approaches, landscape restoration, and landscape governance. All her activities have a strong component of capacity development. T

o this end, Cora and her team have developed a landscape capability framework, which, together with (public and private) partners, they apply to enhance landscape capabilities worldwide, with the aim to manage, govern and restore landscapes in an economically viable and socially acceptable manner

Confidence Duku
Confidence Duku

Dr. Confidence Duku is a Geospatial Data Scientist working within the Climate Resilience Team of Wageningen Environmental Research, which is one of the applied research institutes of Wageningen University & Research.

His research harnesses geospatial data, big data, machine / deep learning and simulation models (crop growth, hydrology, ecosystem services etc.) to provide detailed and timely information for resilient landscapes, and its food system, watersheds and ecosystems within. He is involved in several ongoing projects in the Netherlands, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

Dr. Duku has a doctorate degree in Environmental Systems Analysis from Wageningen University and a Masters degree in GIS & Environmental Modeling from the University of Hull, UK.