After successful completion of both practice and graded assignments related to this course, you will:

• Understand that food manufacturing has changed during the past century
• Understand the basic principles of food access
• Understand actors’ choices influencing food access
• Discern dilemmas at household, local, national and international levels.
• Unravelling the connections between levels and actors regarding access to food

Week 1: Setting the scene
Introduction to food access as one of the pillars of global food security

Week 2: Households accessing and allocating food
Introduction to social and economic determinants shaping access to food between and within households

Week 3: Traders arranging food access in local markets
Introduction to distribution and trading food at the local level

Week 4: National policy makers governing food access
Introduction to food policy and how political choices at the national level affect access to food

Week 5: Negotiators setting international trade rules for food access
Introducing the role of international trade for food access and its economic, social and cultural implications

Week 6: connecting the ingredients
Integration of levels and actors

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