Programme description

Access to good and healthy food is a basic human right.

However, in 2023, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that about 28.9% of the global population was food insecure. Since 2019, the prevalence of food insecurity has increased globally. Several challenges are generating this complex situation, such as:

• food access and affordability
• food availability and utilisation
• climate shocks
• finite resources
• political crises
• globalisation
• global shocks as the Covid-19 pandemic
• cost of living crisis
• urbanisation
• global food shortages
• increasing food prices

This MSc programme explores important issues related to food security. It is designed to specifically address the social and economic aspects of food security, such as the intersection of food production, distribution, consumption, agriculture, environment, nutrition-related policies, and human behaviour.

There is an increasing demand for qualified experts in this field to contribute to policy creation and legislation in food production. Furthermore, companies need food security experts to assess the Agri-industry by tracing their development strategy to improve food production and distribution in a sustainable way.