With Year 5 now firmly underway, IFSTAL Education Coordinator Saher Hasnain reflects on the first two workshops. Workshop 1 at SOAS, London brought together the diverse array of students from the Year 5 cohort for the first time. The focus … Continued
A comment piece in the newly launched Nature Food journal puts the IFSTAL approach to creating food-system thinkers in the spotlight. The piece, authored collaboratively by members of the IFSTAL team, sets out the case for a systems approach to … Continued
Building on its success at creating a graduate cohort equipped to bring about positive change in the food system, the Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme is entering its fifth year in October 2019. For the 2019/20 Year, … Continued
The inspiring words of our guest speakers were a reminder that the pathway to becoming a food system changemaker is not always linear. The food system is vast and complex; every IFSTAL student who has raced against the clock to … Continued
Rosina Borrelli looks back at her group’s field trip, which took in two organisations that operate at opposite ends of the food system. Our group was also assigned visits to witness two very different but equally important parts of the … Continued
In June the IFSTAL team returned to Ghana, bringing staff and students from N8 Agrifood to train alongside University of Ghana students and other food-systems professionals. “The world urgently needs more food systems analysts – the answer to that need … Continued