[{"Course code":"P000099","Version":1,"English name":"Monitoring of food system sustainability","Higher education credits":3.0,"Syllabus":"Styrgrupp av SSFEB forskarskola","Valid from":"2024H","Syllabus approved":"2024-05-21","Level within study regulation":"Third cycle","Grading scale":"Pass \/ Failed","Language":"Swedish","Entry requirements":"The course is addressed to PhD students (at SLU and other universities) working in the fields of food systems’ modelling, sustainability monitoring or life cycle assessments, or other areas related to sustainable development in the food sector.","Objectives":"Upon successful completion of this course, the participants will be able to:\n\n\n- Describe how food system sustainability can be evaluated and monitored from different perspectives, at different scales and for different purposes.\n- Show how the participants’ own research relates to selected food system monitoring tools\n- Critically discuss the applicability and limitations of environmental indicators currently used for monitoring food system sustainability\n- Suggest how to innovate these indicators and modelling tools for better monitoring of food system sustainability","Content":"This course is organised as a hybrid course. The first three days of lectures as well as the final mandatory seminar are given on Ultuna campus. The remaining lectures are given on-line the first week. Before the lectures, the students prepare by reading pre-selected literature. Themes and activities included are:\n\n\n- Introduction of different perspectives on food system sustainability and the use of sustainability indicators for diets\n- Presentation of CIBUSmod, a biophysical agri-food system model for studying scenarios, and CAPRI, an economic model used for modelling environmental impacts\n- Input-Output-models as a monitoring tool\n- The use of FAOSTAT for monitoring food system sustainability\n- An individual written assignment followed by a mutual review\n- Final seminar with presentations\n\n<br>\nThe individual project will be written as an essay consisting of two parts. In the first part, the participant will select and describe one food system monitoring tool of relevance for his\/her own research and suggest how it could be applied in his\/her research context. In the second part, the participant selects one indicator\/impact category and present and discuss its relevance, applicability and limitations, and suggest an innovative way of using the indicator. The written individual assignment is peer assessed by two other participants through comments sent in via Canvas. The peer assessment gives the participants a chance to learn from each other’s experiences and reflect upon additional perspectives on food system monitoring. The revised final written assignment is then resubmitted to Canvas.\n\n<br>\nThe revised assignment is finally presented orally and discussed in a seminar.","Examination formats":"- An approved written assignment\n- Written peer review of two course participants’ assignments\n- Oral presentation and reflections at the final seminar \r\n- If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.\r\n\r\n- The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.\r\n\r\n- If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.\r\n\r\n- For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n","Organisation":[{"code":"565","Organisation":"Department of Energy and Technology"}],"Other information":"\r\n- The right to participate in teaching and\/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.\r\n\r\n- If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n"}]