1. Food system thinking

• Food system structure and processes
• Food and nutrition security outcomes
• Food system dynamics

2. Policy analysis

• The structure of the policy problem and framings
• The policy cycle: Agenda setting, Policy design and instrument mix, Implementation, Monitoring and evaluation

3. Food system policies and governance

• Policies for Food security
• Policies for Food safety
• Food systems and circular economy
• Urban food policies
• Diets, sustainability, food environments
• Food and rural development
• Food systems and technological innovation

Materials are available on the e-learning

• Nutrition and food systems. A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security. September 2017. HLPE Report 12. http://www.fao.org/policy-support/resources/resources-details/en/c/1155796/
• Searchinger, T., Hanson, C., Ranganathan, J., Lipinski, B., Waite, R., Winterbottom, R., ... & Dumas, P. (2019). Creating a sustainable food future. A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050. World resources report 2013-14: interim findings. Creating a sustainable food future. A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050. World resources report 2013-14: interim findings, World Resources Institute (2014).
• Béné, C., Oosterveer, P., Lamotte, L., Brouwer, I. D., de Haan, S., Prager, S. D., ... & Khoury, C. K. (2019). When food systems meet sustainability–Current narratives and implications for actions. World Development, 113, 116-130.
• Capacci, S., Mazzocchi, M., Shankar, B., Brambila Macias, J., Verbeke, W., Pérez-Cueto, F. J., ... & Saba, A. (2012). Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: a structured review of policies and their effectiveness. Nutrition reviews, 70(3), 188-200.
• Clapp, J., Newell, P., & Brent, Z. W. (2018). The global political economy of climate change, agriculture and food systems. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(1), 80-88.
• Ericksen, P., Stewart, B., Dixon, J., Barling, D., Loring, P., Anderson, M., & Ingram, J. (2010). The value of a food system approach. Food security and global environmental change, 25
• Freidberg, S. (2014). Footprint technopolitics. Geoforum, 55, 178-189.
• Godfray, H. C. J., Beddington, J. R., Crute, I. R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J. F., ... & Toulmin, C. (2010). Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people. science, 327(5967), 812-818.
• Gómez, M. I., & Ricketts, K. D. (2013). Food value chain transformations in developing countries: Selected hypotheses on nutritional implications. Food Policy, 42, 139-150.
• Gharajedaghi, J. (2011). Systems thinking: Managing chaos and complexity: A platform for designing business architecture. Elsevier.
• Friel, S., & Ford, L. (2015). Systems, food security and human health. Food security, 7(2), 437-451.
• Henson, S., & Caswell, J. (1999). Food safety regulation: an overview of contemporary issues. Food policy, 24(6), 589-603.
• Howlett, M., Ramesh, M., & Perl, A. (2009). Studying public policy: Policy cycles and policy subsystems (Vol. 3). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ingram, J. (2011). A food systems approach to researching food security and its interactions with global environmental change. Food Security, 3(4), 417-431.
• Muller, M., Tagtow, A., Roberts, S. L., & MacDougall, E. (2009). Aligning food systems policies to advance public health. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 4(3-4), 225-240.
• Reardon, T., & Timmer, C. P. (2012). The economics of the food system revolution. Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ., 4(1), 225-264.
• Sonnino, R., Tegoni, C. L., & De Cunto, A. (2018). The challenge of systemic food change: Insights from cities. Cities.
• Tilman, D., & Clark, M. (2014). Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health. Nature, 515(7528), 518-522.

In itinere policy brief reports and oral presentations. Final essay.