Online Food Systems Leadership Program

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Breakthrough Leaders for Sustainable Food Systems – Online Food Systems Leadership Program from the University of Vermont

UVM’s innovative 3-week online and on-campus cross-disciplinary Food Systems Leadership Program develops visionary leaders by offering solutions to the social, environmental, diet, and health impacts of our food system.  The University of Vermont is a recognized leader in the food systems movement, providing you with unique access to hands-on learning and collaboration with scholars, activists, leaders, and professionals in the field. 

In this unique Food Systems Leadership Program, you will spend the first two weeks in an online classroom, engaging with your peer activists, completing pre-course readings, and initiating discussions around food systems challenges. In the third week, you will come together with your peers in Burlington, Vermont to deepen your engagement in the food movement by continuing your conversations and interactions with food systems leaders through site visits and hands-on experiences. We take you on a journey through every step of the interconnected food system to help you:

• Grow your leadership skills and expand your capacity to recognize and create positive, forward-looking solutions for our broken food system.
• Gain an understanding of systems theory, the food system hierarchical structure, and evaluate every step of the interconnected food system, from growing food to distribution strategies and consumer consumption patterns.
• Engage with local sustainability based organizations via site visits and gain a hands-on perspective of community based practices, which have immediate real-world application.
• https://learn.uvm.edu/program/sustainable-food-systems/

Dates, Syllabus, and Schedule

The Online Food Systems Leadership Program has a preliminary online component in May that will be immediately followed by a residential learning experience at The University of Vermont in June.

Draft Schedule

Schedule:
Online component 5/20/19 – 5/31/19
Residential session 6/3/19 -6/7/19

 

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