Agroforestry and Food Security

This course will prepare students to apply the most recent studies in sustainable production systems thinking and will make it easier for them to enter agroforestry-related professions.

The curriculum is appropriate for those with an interest in agri-food, farming, environmental, conservation, and agricultural policy, and it encompasses both temperate and tropical systems and contexts.

Course aims:
– Investigate the environmental, economic, and social aspects of agroforestry in the sense of food security and environmental change.
– Research how specific agroforestry management activities can increase resource quality and overall food production sustainability.
– Gain a global perspective on whether and how increasing food demand can be met with limited land resources through agroforestry and sustainable intensification.

Career

This Agroforestry and Food Security course at Bangor University will enable professionals to redirect or improve their skills.

Graduates may work in advisory and policy/advocacy positions, executive management, livestock, agribusiness, and environmental consulting and agencies, agricultural finance, land and catchment management agencies, natural resource management, agricultural education and training, and as rural counsellors.