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Overview
Key facts
Learn how to quantify the sustainability of food production and consumption with techniques like Life Cycle Assessment including the newly revise international water footprint.
Apply these methods to contrasting food chains. Apply critical thinking to ensure that your claims are defendable and transparent and become able to debunk greenwash about food.
Cranfield University's Environmental Impacts of My Food Products programme will teach you more about this topic.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Critically compare different environmental claims,
- Appreciate the complexities of food impacts beyond the carbon footprint or “food miles”,
- Appreciate the strengths and limits of methods of quantifying environmental impacts,
- Identify tensions between welfare, environment and economy,
- Apply the rudiments of Life Cycle Assessment, Carbon Footprinting and Water Footprinting,
- Recognise limits to dietary change in the real world
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 1 days
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Food Science Environmental Sciences View 63 other Short Courses in Environmental Sciences in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
Who should attendFood producers, processors, distributors, consultants, commentators or passionate consumers. It is suited to those with technical, policy, corporate social responsibility or environmental interests and responsibilities.Confidence in using quantitative methods is desirable
Tuition Fee
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International
375 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 375 GBP for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
375 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 375 GBP for the full programme during 1 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
700 - 1300 GBP /month
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