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Postgraduate course

Traditional foods for the future

Local traditional foods to promote food and nutrition security: transdisciplinary approaches to advance Sustainable Development Goals

2-14 February 2025

 

 

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Scope

Graduate schools PE&RC, VLAG, WASS and the University of Zambia (Lusaka, Zambia) and Chinhoyi University of Technology Zimbabwe organise an on-site PhD course focused around the use of traditional local foods to promote food and nutrition security in the context of advancing Sustainable Development Goals. 

In many low and middle income countries local traditional foods exist that are part of local culture and tradition. They are embedded in society and usually well suited to local agronomic practice and informal value chains. However, due to specific characteristics of each of these foods and the focus on globally available alternatives, local traditional foods have been understudied. This has hampered their use to promote nutrition and livelihoods within the local context of many LMIC.

 

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In the advent of climate change, growing populations, urbanization and environmental degradation, the potential of local traditional foods needs to fully be exploited. This requires a transdisciplinary approach, connecting various scientific disciplines and both the perspective of and implementation by local stakeholders as the starting point and end goal of study.

 

Course objectives

This course aims to provide skills and methods for developing transdisciplinary research to promote advancement of Sustainable development Goals in Low and Middle Income countries by mobilizing local traditional foods. Participants will experience how this requires both in-depth expertise and knowledge from various disciplines as well as synthesis of disciplines and rooting with local stakeholders.

 

Course set-up, activities and expected outputs

This is an intensive, transdisciplinary course in which participants will work on specific case studies to design a research program to promote a specific local traditional foods. The course will have lectures, and visits to local stakeholders as basis for group work.

Participants will be divided into four to five groups, each focussing on one particular local traditional food. During the course, participants will develop a specific research and development plan with a horizon of four years. This will be through group discussions, impost of experts and field visits to farmer groups and visits to institutional stakeholders and NGOs. At the end of the course, participants are familiarized with different tools in transdisciplinary research for a focal traditional food.

 

Introductory presentations and information session

During this information session, we will present a general background of topics and approaches surrounding the course and will discuss practical information.

DATE and TIME: 11 November 2024, 12:00-13:30

LOCATION: ORION B4015, Wageningen Campus and MS Teams online

General information
Target Group The course is ideally suited for PhD students and post-docs of Wageningen University, Zambian Universities as well as (junior) staff of institutes working on and within (smallholder) production systems, rural livelihoods, and the effects of global change at the regional, national and local level
Group Size Min. 20 / Max. 30 participants
Course duration 13 days: 2-14 February 2025
Language of instruction English
Frequency of recurrence To be determined
Number of credits 3  ECTS
Lecturers
  • Sijmen Schoustra (GEN/PE&RC, Wageningen University & University of Zambia)
  • Bernard Moonga (University of Zambia)
  • Grace Madzimure (Chinhoyi University of Technology Zimbabwe)
  • Taonga Chirwa (University of Zambia)
  • Robert Nhlane (University of Zambia)
  • Thelma Sikombe (NISIR Zambia)
  • Sakile Kudita (HarvestPlus, Zimbabwe)
  • Anita Linnemann (FQD/VLAG Wageningen University)
  • Elise Talsma (HNH/VLAG Wageningen University)
  • Gerlinde De Deyn (SBL/PE&RC Wageningen University)
  • Valentina Materia (BMO/WASS Wageningen University)
Location Zambia
Accommodation Accommodation and full board catering is included in the fee of the course (accommodation will be based on room sharing)

 

Fees1
  EARLY-BIRD FEE2  REGULAR FEE 
PE&RC/WIMEK/EPS/WASS/VLAG/WIAS PhD candidates with an approved TSP and EngD candidates € 750,- € 800,-
PE&RC postdocs and staff € 1350,- € 1400,-
All other academic participants € 1350,- € 1400,-
Non academic participants € 2100,- € 2150,-
Zambia-based participants € 1350,- € 1400,-

1 The course fee includes accommodation, food, and coffee/tea
2 The Early-Bird Fee applies to anyone who REGISTERS ON OR BEFORE 1 DECEMBER 2024

Note:

  • If you would like to cancel your registration, ALWAYS inform us (and do note that you will be kept to the cancellation conditions)
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  • Please make sure that your payment is arranged within two weeks after your registration. Arrange your payment immediately if you register two weeks or less before the start of the course. 
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More information

Sijmen Schoustra

Email: Sijmen.Schoustra@wur.nl

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