Delivering global food security is one of the critical challenges of the 21st century. Each nation needs to balance local food production with imports and consider environmental and economic impact. This master's course considers the critical factors influencing global food security including the contributions of climate change, biodiversity, water, soil, land use, labour, diet and urbanisation.You will gain:An understanding of current food production and distribution practices with an appreciation of how they can fail and ensuing health and policy issuesAn ability to critically evaluate how constraints on crop production can change due to biotic and societal pressuresAn ability to select and apply appropriate tools or techniques to tackle a food security question or problemTransferable skills including team working, communicating with peers and sector specialists, organising, planning and oral presentationResearch skills including scientific report writing, conducting surveys, problem solving, data analysis and project work