Sustainable Food and Natural Resources MSc, PgCert, PgDip

Centre for Alternative Technology

Develop your knowledge and understanding of the impacts of environmental change on global and local food systems and the natural world on our MSc Sustainable Food and Natural Resources.

Explore solutions that could help address some of the urgent and crucial issues that we face, looking at different approaches and competing paradigms.

Key Areas of study

On the course you will explore a variety of issues linked to food system sustainability, focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation in food and natural resources, natural climate solutions, and food and land management systems.

Some of the topics you will study include:

• Social, political and economic aspects of sustainable food production and natural resource management
• The actual and potential use of plant breeding and agricultural technologies to support a sustainable agriculture
• The effects of industrial-scale farming, agriculture and materials production on ecosystems and our environment
• The impacts of economic structures and environmental change on diet, health, sustainability and community empowerment
• Underlying theory in a range of related topics, such as soil ecology and health, environmental impacts of materials and design for sustainability