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Doctor in Sustainable Food Systems

The Doctorate in Sustainable Food Systems focuses on researching and designing innovative solutions in nutrition, food, and sustainability. With a multidisciplinary approach, you will develop projects that improve the health and well-being of populations, integrating ethical and humanistic values while working in teams to address global food-related issues.

Mode:
Online
Duration:
2 years
Subjects:
14
Program details

The globalization of the food economy makes Sustainable Food Systems a topic of general interest, influenced by numerous factors. It requires a comprehensive approach that addresses food-related issues from all possible perspectives. The program aims to train doctoral professionals who can produce research and projects to improve and solve the challenges posed by Sustainable Food Systems, ultimately improving the quality of life and health of the population.

Career Opportunities

Graduates will engage in research activities within the field of Sustainable Food Systems, generating, transferring, and applying innovative theoretical, methodological, or technological knowledge. They will design, implement, monitor, and evaluate research projects that contribute to solving challenges in nutrition and food, sustainable development, food legislation, and food psychology.

Doctorates will also be involved in training human resources, outreach, and linking activities in the fields of nutrition, food, sustainable development, food legislation, and food psychology for the benefit of health, well-being, and people’s rights. They will promote a humanistic and ethical-professional work philosophy, collaborating in multidisciplinary teams to address food system issues based on specific needs.

Curriculum

  • Module 1

  1. Nutrition and Food

  2. Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainable Food Systems

  3. Problematization of Nutritional Reality

  4. Nutritional Epidemiological Transition

  • Module 2
    5. Food Science and Technology
    6. Sustainable Food Chains
    7. Development and Formulation of Foods
    8. Hygiene, Safety, and Food Security in the Food Industry

  • Module 3
    9. Psychology and Food
    10. Biopsychosocial Approach
    11. Community Social Psychology
    12. Eating Disorders, Food Intake, and Obesity

  • Module 4
    13. Public Food Policies
    14. Food Sovereignty and Security
    15. Sustainability and Ethics
    16. Public Food Policies

Module 5
17. Methodological Approach
18. Thesis Design I
19. Thesis Design II
20. Research Activities
21. Thesis

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