Agriculture – Sustainability

Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA)(website)

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) Berlin is an international platform hosted annually at the start of Berlin’s Green Week, convening over 2,000 experts, agriculture ministers from 70+ countries, scientists, businesses, and civil society to tackle global food security challenges.

Nutritionists and dietitians will find it invaluable for its science-based focus on sustainable agriculture, ending hunger for 720 million people worldwide, and ensuring reliable access to nutritious food amid a projected 10 billion global population by 2050.

Key offerings include the Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, which produces actionable communiqués with political recommendations (e.g., digitalization platforms and youth farmer declarations); innovation exhibitions showcasing flagship projects; and panels on synergies in food systems, resource efficiency, and climate-resilient practices like agroforestry and smart irrigation.

Professionals gain insights into scaling sustainable productivity without prescriptive policies, aligning with nutrition goals like resilient supply chains for diverse, healthy diets.

For sustainable food systems work, the site provides recaps of past events (e.g., 2025’s nature-based solutions theme), policy documents, media coverage, and networks fostering cross-border research—equipping dietitians with evidence to advocate for equitable, hunger-free futures in policy, education, and practice.

updated 2026 February

Oxford Real Farming Conference (website)

The Oxford Real Farming Conference is held annually, both online and in person, with an online archive available.

ORFC serves as a hub for the global real food and farming movement, bringing together farmers, growers, activists, policymakers, and researchers annually in January to transform food systems through agroecology and practical innovation. Nutritionists and dietitians engaged in sustainable food systems will appreciate its focus on progressive ideas like regenerative agriculture, organic farming, indigenous systems, and equitable practices that directly influence nutrient-dense, resilient food production.

Hosted by participants worldwide via an open call for submissions, ORFC 2026 programming covers farm practice (e.g., soil health, biodiversity, pest control), food policy (e.g., funding transitions, pesticide reforms), justice (e.g., land access, racial equity), agroecology movements with La Via Campesina, nature reciprocity, and youth activism—offering deep dives into scalable solutions for healthier ecosystems and diets.

The online conference is a mix of live-streamed sessions from Oxford and online-only sessions with farmers, food producers, activists, academics, authors, and many others across six continents. Anything you miss will be recorded for you to catch up on, and each session will be available for replay shortly after it has ended. There is interpretation through COATI (Colectivo para la autogestión de tecnologías para la interpretación) to ensure that sessions are interpreted into many languages.

ORFC is built on the principles of community and knowledge sharing, and makes all of the sessions from the conference accessible to the public for this reason. You can also explore past session recordings on the ORFC YouTube Channel.

Professionals gain practical tools, policy insights, diverse networking (including free online access for majority world participants), and inspiration from real-world examples, empowering advocacy for climate-informed nutrition and food sovereignty in their work.

updated 2026 February

Food Tank (website)

Food Tank is the world’s fastest-growing global nonprofit member community driving positive transformation in food production and consumption, building networks for safe, healthy, nourished eaters through education, inspiration, advocacy, and change.

Founded in 2013 by Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack, this 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, fosters dialogue across diverse voices through events prioritizing open conversation over endorsement, equipping practitioners with actionable insights to scale real-world nutrition impact.

Nutritionists and dietitians will find value in its role spotlighting sustainable solutions to hunger, obesity, and poverty while connecting professionals – farmers, policymakers, researchers, academics, and journalists – to amplify on-the-ground innovations in fields, kitchens, cities, and labs that bridge domestic and global perspectives for resilient food systems.

The Food Talk Podcast is hosted weekly by Danielle Nierenberg, interviewing key food industry figures; expert articles and interviews; global summits and webinars; partner directories; reports on policy and equity; and toolkits for advocacy and replication.

Food Tank memberships offer three different levels. Food Tank is dedicated to building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters.

updated 2026 February

People’s Food Summit, World Food Day, October 16 (website)

Regeneration International hosts the People’s Food Summit on World Food Day, October 16 each year. It is the only 24-hour global, participatory, virtual summit starting in Oceania and moving westwards through the time zones of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America. The People’s Food Summit enhances the connectedness of global work amongst numerous like-minded organizations.

The People’s Food Summit is a truly participatory summit that empowers most of the world’s food producers: the family farmers, pastoralists, and foresters who produce 70% of our food. We seek to engage hundreds of thousands by exchanging information and sharing inspiring stories. We present proven, farmer-based, real-world examples that are the future of our food and farming systems. These include agroecology, organic and regenerative farming, permaculture, agroforestry, holistically managed grazing, and many other systems.

The 2021 and 2022 events were spectacularly successful, with over 500,000 people, each time, from all regions of our world, tuning in to watch and listen to our numerous speakers and their essential topics. In 2022, we promoted videos that we regarded as highlights of each region and reached another 700,000 views, bringing the total views to 1,200,000. Because we reached so many people, this event had a very high impact and will continue to. The past events remain available through the s a m e link.

Our hope for the outcomes:
1. Information Exchange
2. Creating connections where different groups can continue working together after
3. Stimulating a citizen-led research and storytelling journey
4. Starting a partnership where Regeneration International continues to enable the scale-up of projects
5. Increasing the reach of this vital information to hundreds of thousands of people

updated 2026 February

Diploma in Sustainable Food: For A Planet In Crisis (Chile, online in Spanish)

The Diploma in Sustainable Food: For a Planet in Crisis is an e-learning course offered in Spanish by the University of Chile, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition.

Sustainable nutrition and food arise as a response to the planetary crisis as a result of climate change that threatens the nutritional food security of the population. Addressing this requires an intersectoral and transdisciplinary approach that encompasses food systems, human nutrition, and planetary health.

The global interest in sustainable nutrition and food is inserted in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has defined sustainable diets as those that have a low environmental impact and contribute to food and nutritional security and a healthy life for present and future generations.

The Department of Nutrition (DNUT) is ideal for issuing this diploma, since the academic team has experience from different axes that are interrelated to seek answers to a complex problem.

The course targets graduates or professionals from careers related to health disciplines, nutrition, food, innovation, agronomy, environment, and others, who want to acquire knowledge and tools that complement their disciplinary area, in the context of nutrition and sustainable food.

Module 1: The current global food and health crisis.
Module 2: Food systems and their impact on nutritional food security.
Module 3: Food and the food industry: Impact on health and sustainability.
Module 4: Sustainable food for adequate nutrition in health and disease.
Module 5: Sustainable food systems applied to public health.

Register here: https://medichi.uchile.cl/diploma-alimentacion-sostenible/

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Sustainable Nutrition (Bern, Germany)

**Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Sustainable Nutrition**

The Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Sustainable Nutrition is offered at Bern University of Applied Sciences, in person, in German, at the Bern Campus. The course is generally held over seven months in two-day blocks on Fridays/Saturdays. It provides 12 ECTS credits, with a workload of 360 hours (incl. study days). There is a fee.

The CAS Sustainable Nutrition looks at global perspectives and Swiss contexts, and enables you to derive concrete nutritional recommendations for a healthy and sustainable diet in Switzerland. For this purpose, exemplary challenges are deepened, and solutions are discussed that you can network with your traditional professional field or carry into new occupational fields. A sustainable food system should give the entire world population access to safe and needs-based nutrition with fairly produced food produced taking into account planetary boundaries. This requires nutritionists who help shape the transformation of the nutrition system.

The target audiences for this course are nutritionists, food scientists, and other actors in the Swiss food system with a tertiary degree and a nutrition background.

Immerse yourself in the complexity of sustainable nutrition and become a mediator in the transformation of the nutrition system. In the CAS degree program you will:

explore the complexity of the different dimensions of sustainable nutrition.
discuss the Planetary Health Diet of the EAT Lancet Commission and other references as well as guidelines and recommendations and transfer global concepts to local conditions.
deal with the production and consumption of selected foods of animal origin such as meat and fish, the nose-to-tail approach and cultured meat.
design measures to reduce food loss or waste.
you will get to know the perspective of different actors in the nutrition system.
connect different aspects of a sustainable nutrition system with your own professional field and design a vision of your own role in it.
work on a self-selected topic to promote a sustainable food system.

updated 2026 February

Class Central MOOCS

Browse Class Central for more in depth distance courses offered as MOOCS (massive open online courses) from various universities around the world. This is a database of free online courses run by a small company with a mission to make education accessible.

The listing contains 250+ courses relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), several of which are of direct relevance to health and sustainability. Details vary by course but most run for 4-8 weeks and have instructors who provide feedback. Some are not accessible from all geographic regions, and while auditing is generally free, payment is required to receive an official certification.

We suggest the following as good places to start.

**Food Security & Sustainability**
(Course fees)

**Sustainability of Socio-Ecological Systems: The Nexus Between Water, Energy, and Food**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Systems Thinking in Public Health**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Food & Our Future: Sustainable Food Systems in South East Asia**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Climate Adaptation in Africa**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

updated 2026 February

Food EDU, Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)(Website)

Food EDU from the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) provides free, interdisciplinary online courses that integrate advanced food science with practical applications for sustainable, planetary health-oriented nutrition practice. These asynchronous e-learning modules distill complex data on food composition, foodomics, and agrifood systems into evidence-based insights, addressing key gaps in professional education worldwide.

Foodomics & Society Track (Modules 1–7): Builds foundational knowledge on diverse ways of understanding food, multi-omics tools for health, agriculture, and equity, featuring video lessons, case studies, reflection questions, and knowledge assessments (∼1 hour per module).

You can also watch a recording of their Food EDU Webinar: Learn Foodomics with The Periodic Table of Food Initiative Science Trainings on their YouTube Channel.

Other Key Resources

Good Food Fellows Program: Professional development opportunities for community-engaged research.

Workshops and Global Case Studies: Applied examples addressing varied nutrition challenges.

Networking Opportunities: Connections with scientists, policymakers, and food system stakeholders.

updated 2026 February

British Nutrition Foundation (website)

The British Nutrition Foundation is a public-facing charity that exists to promote health and wellbeing and prevent diet-related ill health through evidence-based nutrition science. They provide a bridge between nutrition science, government, industry, education, and people, and a conduit to a healthier, more sustainable food environment for all.

Their team of nutrition scientists and education professionals is dedicated to making trusted, evidence-based nutrition science accessible to everyone. They empower people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make healthier food, diet, and lifestyle choices with the aim of having a future where everyone has a healthy and sustainable diet.

Food, a fact of Life is a page dedicated to teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking, and healthy eating.

They also host many webinars on a wide variety of topics to watch live or on demand.

updated 2026 February

Youth’s World Food Forum (WFF)

The World Food Forum (WFF) Youth website empowers young leaders to transform agrifood systems through action, innovation, and partnerships, hosted by the FAO Youth Committee. Nutrition and dietetics professionals gain access to youth-led resources on sustainable diets, food security, and SDG-aligned nutrition strategies via programs like the Youth Education track and Innovation Lab. It supports client counseling on planetary health diets and global policy advocacy.

Youth Assembly & Local Action: Tools for grassroots nutrition campaigns in diverse settings.
Thematic Programs: Education modules and cultural initiatives linking food systems to malnutrition prevention.
Annual Events: Networking for intergenerational collaboration on resilient food futures.

Reviewed 2026 February