Food Security: How to Measure and Improve

Course objective: 

Ensuring food security and healthy nutrition for a growing population, while respecting the earth’s planetary boundaries and securing decent livelihoods for all is an urgent and complex challenge.

This course develops participants’ knowledge and understanding of the dilemmas low and middle-income countries face in achieving SDG 2, Zero Hunger. It focuses on relationships between conceptual understandings of food security, measurement tools, and intervention design. Participants examine approaches to sustainable food production in different contexts, and assess their economic, social, and environmental implications.

Key topics:

• Key Debates & Contested Issues
• Measurement of Food Security
• Food Security in Crises
• Approaches to Sustainable Production
• Designing Interventions

Duration: 29/09–01/10/2025

Teaching format: Classroom

ECTS points: 2

Examination: An assignment will be distributed and completed during the course

Course fee: CHF 570

Lecturers:

• Shruti Patel, NADEL
• Guest lecturers

For more information please visit nadel.ethz.ch

Registration starts 2nd of June 2025.

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