Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland
A concept of resilient, embedded food systems (EFS), environmentally, economically, culturally, socially, and historically linked to certain territories, has been recently gaining attention as a vital response to the globalization of food systems and all its associated challenges. Support for territ...
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| description | A concept of resilient, embedded food systems (EFS), environmentally, economically, culturally, socially, and historically linked to certain territories, has been recently gaining attention as a vital response to the globalization of food systems and all its associated challenges. Support for territories on their way to sustain or restore such community-centric, embedded food systems requires transdisciplinary knowledge and skills, and thus effective food system education, including higher education, has an important role to play. The GOODFOOD study looked into the students’ interest in the topic of regional and territorial food systems and their opinion on the importance of certain elements of a food system that is embedded in a region or territory. Students were also asked about the presence of courses or topics related to territorially or regionally embedded food systems in their study programs, their opinion on the usefulness of such courses for their future employment, and the most demanded teaching methods that should be applied to study EFS topics. An online survey carried out among students of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland of selected study programs related to food science revealed that 70% of respondents are interested in the topic of regional food systems. At the same time, 50% of students have not had any courses related to territorial food systems in their study programs so far, even though over 70% think that such a course would be useful for their future employment. Interactive field trips and excursions, international courses (in a multicultural, international environment), interactive workshops, and cooperation with food system stakeholders (i.e., an internship in a food company) were among the most highly demanded teaching methods to study EFS. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2a4d99ff276541929a348ff9c442dcf22025-08-20T02:43:06ZengMDPI AGProceedings2504-39002024-02-0191130410.3390/proceedings2023091304Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from PolandKlaudia Kopczyńska0Rita Góralska-Walczak1Renata Kazimierczak2Carola Strassner3Alexander Wezel4Paola Migliorini5Dominika Średnicka-Tober6Department of Functional and Organic Food, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Functional and Organic Food, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Functional and Organic Food, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Food–Nutrition–Facilities, FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, 48149 Münster, GermanyAgroecology and Environment Research Unit, ISARA, 69007 Lyon, FranceUniversity of Gastronomic Sciences, 12042 Pollenzo, ItalyDepartment of Functional and Organic Food, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, PolandA concept of resilient, embedded food systems (EFS), environmentally, economically, culturally, socially, and historically linked to certain territories, has been recently gaining attention as a vital response to the globalization of food systems and all its associated challenges. Support for territories on their way to sustain or restore such community-centric, embedded food systems requires transdisciplinary knowledge and skills, and thus effective food system education, including higher education, has an important role to play. The GOODFOOD study looked into the students’ interest in the topic of regional and territorial food systems and their opinion on the importance of certain elements of a food system that is embedded in a region or territory. Students were also asked about the presence of courses or topics related to territorially or regionally embedded food systems in their study programs, their opinion on the usefulness of such courses for their future employment, and the most demanded teaching methods that should be applied to study EFS topics. An online survey carried out among students of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Poland of selected study programs related to food science revealed that 70% of respondents are interested in the topic of regional food systems. At the same time, 50% of students have not had any courses related to territorial food systems in their study programs so far, even though over 70% think that such a course would be useful for their future employment. Interactive field trips and excursions, international courses (in a multicultural, international environment), interactive workshops, and cooperation with food system stakeholders (i.e., an internship in a food company) were among the most highly demanded teaching methods to study EFS.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/91/1/304embedded food systems (EFS)GOODFOOD projectErasmus+regional and territorial foodteaching methodseducation |
| spellingShingle | Klaudia Kopczyńska Rita Góralska-Walczak Renata Kazimierczak Carola Strassner Alexander Wezel Paola Migliorini Dominika Średnicka-Tober Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland Proceedings embedded food systems (EFS) GOODFOOD project Erasmus+ regional and territorial food teaching methods education |
| title | Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland |
| title_full | Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland |
| title_fullStr | Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland |
| title_full_unstemmed | Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland |
| title_short | Territorially Embedded Food Systems as a Response to the Challenges of Globalization—Students Understanding, Current Status, Needs, and Expectations of University Education in This Subject Area: A Case from Poland |
| title_sort | territorially embedded food systems as a response to the challenges of globalization students understanding current status needs and expectations of university education in this subject area a case from poland |
| topic | embedded food systems (EFS) GOODFOOD project Erasmus+ regional and territorial food teaching methods education |
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