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Action roadmap: Wageningen University & Research Food systems course
What: 3-day action roadmap workshop
Where: Netherlands
Hosted by: Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Wageningen Centre for Development and Innovation (WCDI)
When: March 2022, March 2023, planned for March 2024
Who: Between 90-100 participants in each year of the course; a mix of WUR MSc students and international professionals across from both public and private sectors in the fields of nutrition, food systems, agronomy, and ecology
Aim: To use the Backcasting approach as a practical systems thinking tool to support the intensive graduate level course tailored for professionals in food-systems-related fields and Food Systems students.
Key takeaways:
- International and inter-generational collaboration ignited innovative thinking and enriched the learning experience.
- Diverse experiences uncovered common synergies spanning various sectors, emphasizing the potential for collaborative pathways to drive lasting and scalable impacts.
- Innovative solution bundles for real-world food contexts and settings were developed, taking into account possible barriers, mitigating strategies and factors to help accelerate and boost impact for healthier diets on a healthy planet
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