Food Production Courses

Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management

489 ratings at Coursera

Learn about the impact of infectious disease on sustainable animal-based food production by understanding the science of growth, immunity, and infection and by learning the problem-solving skills needed to advance animal health and food production throug…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 15th Aug, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Farm to Fork: Sustainable Food Production in a Changing Environment

3 reviews

Understand how food goes from farm to fork: explore food security, supply chains, food production and agriculture.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

EIT Food;  University of Cambridge

Improving Food Production with Agricultural Technology and Plant Biotechnology

2 reviews

Build your knowledge of food production challenges and technology on this course for 16-19 year olds studying A level biology.

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 3 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Aquaponics – the circular food production system

Aquaponics is a polyculture that combines aquaculture and hydroponics cultivation, i.e. fish farming and soil-independent food production, in a circulatory system with the aim of recycling nutrients from fish farming wastewater. In this MOOC course of th…

• edX
• 4-6 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Feeding the World

186 ratings at Coursera

This course will explore the concepts driving current food production science (population growth, urbanization, emerging affluence, resource constraints, and underlying biological limits) with the main focus on livestock production.

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 5 days from now (22nd Aug)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production

1 review

In this course of the XSeries in environmental studies, you will examine the principles of crop production. You will learn about the ‘availability pillar’ of global food security that lies at the heart of food production, applicable to both crops and ani…

• edX
• 6-8 hours a week, 6 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University of Exeter

Grand Challenges: Food for Thought

Where does our food come from and what impact does it have on our environment?

• FutureLearn
• 3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Lancaster University

Global Food Security: Addressing the Challenge

1 review

In this course, we introduce the issue of food security and explore some of the different ways in which it has been described both in research and in practice and consider key concerns for the future.

• FutureLearn
• 8 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course (Audit)

FSSCPx: Food Security and Sustainability: Crop production

Feeding nine billion people in 2050 without exhausting the planetary reserves is perhaps the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced. This environmental studies course will examine the principles of production ecology and the ‘availability pillar’ of g…

• edX
• 6-8 hours a week, 46 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Avans University of Applied Sciences

Think Biobased!

Our planet is running out of fossil fuels and the climate is changing. We need to change from an oil-based to a biobased society. “Think Biobased!” stimulates the transition towards a Biobased Economy. You will learn the basics of the Biobased Economy.

• Canvas Network
• 3 hours a week
• Finished
• Free Online Course