Food Systems

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Explain what influences and determines food production at the global, regional and national level and how this can affect public health nutrition.
• Demonstrate the role and importance of food standards, laws, and regulations to enhance public health nutrition and minimise nutrition risk.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of retaining the nutritional integrity of food as it moves from ‘farm to fork’ and the implications for food-based interventions
• Explain the importance of and difference between food and nutrition security and how they relate to public health nutrition.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically examine the need for and constraints to develop a national food security strategy.
• Critically examine the notion of sustainable diets.
• Provide information on how local and national level food-based interventions can affect the population’s health and wellbeing.
• Critically assess how globalisation can affect public health nutrition at the national and local levels.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Extract and manipulate data from global data bases and communicate them effectively though charts and tables
• Compose and communicate conceptual frameworks.

• Agriculture, nutrition and public health.
• Globalisation and chronic diseases.
• Data sources and limitations.
• International and national influences and determinants of food security.
• Food standards, health claims, food laws and regulations.
• Sustainable diets.
• Nutrition sensitive policy and interventions.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching and learning strategies will include: formal lectures, workshops, and practice based learning. The emphasis will be on student centred learning in which you will be supported by a wide range of resources. Staff, tutors and colleagues will support your professional learning

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Nutrition and food systems.

2018 Global nutrition report.

Transform nutrition.

Global Panel on agriculture and food systems for nutrition.

Global food security: sustainable, healthy food for all website.

Assessment strategy

There will be two components to the assessment i) discussion/ debate and ii) written gap analysis.

The pass mark for the module and all components is 50%. The written gap analysis must be passed to pass the module.

If you do not achieve the pass mark on this module by achieving 50% or more in all components, you may still pass by compensation for the discussion/debate. To do this, you must achieve a qualifying mark of 40% in this component. Each of the component marks is then combined, using the appropriate weighting, to give an overall mark for the module. If this overall mark is greater than or equal to 50% you will have passed the module. If your overall mark is less than 50% when the weighting has been applied to the components, you will have failed the module. If you have not achieved 40% or more on all components, you cannot use compensation and have failed the module.

If you have failed the module, you will have the opportunity to submit work at the next referral (re-sit) opportunity for all components where you have not achieved the pass mark. Marks for components which were passed will be carried forward. You must achieve the pass mark in all referred components. On passing your referrals, your final module mark will be capped at 50%.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External