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WUR short course on Food Systems for Healthy and Sustainable diets

Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation is facilitating the next round of OKP and MENA fellowship applications (6 September - 16 October 2018) for 15 of its short courses for professionals in the area of Agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security.

Featuring this round is the "Food Systems for Healthy and Sustainable diets", a 3-week short course that is open for professionals and master students of WUR. This course explores the role of food systems in the provision of healthy and sustainable diets at national, regional and global levels. This course will be held between 3 June 2019 until Fri 21 June 2019 on the campus of the Wageningen University and Research.

For impression by the course participants please visit this website.

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