MSc Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty

Program Overview

This MSc program in Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty explores sustainable and equitable food and agricultural systems. It equips students with an in-depth understanding of complex issues and provides solutions for remedying them. The program emphasizes a relaxed learning environment, collaboration with active researchers, and a focus on student well-being. It is delivered at a facility with modern labs, an organic farm, and extensive gardens, and provides dedicated career advice in the field of ecologically sustainable and socially just food and agriculture.

Program Outline

Degree Overview

Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty: MSc This postgraduate program delves into sustainable and equitable food and agricultural systems. Its curriculum encompasses diverse topics, including agroecology and non-conventional farming practices, climate change impacts, gender and food systems, community resilience, farming ecology, power dynamics in food governance, food security in vulnerable environments, Indigenous food approaches, water systems, and more. The program's objectives are:

• Equip students with in-depth understanding of complex issues in contemporary food and agrosystems.

• Provide solutions for remedying these issues.
Key features include:
• Exploration of examples and case studies across different scales, locations, and social contexts.
• Incorporation of diverse knowledge systems, spanning natural and social sciences, alongside people's knowledge and participatory inquiry methods.

Other

• This program is currently one of the few of its kind, enabling students to analyze interactions between social and natural systems, theory and practice, scientific and non-scientific knowledge, politics and people, and how these shape food and agriculture outcomes.
• Students are embedded within the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), collaborating with over 50 active researchers on various projects and accessing their expertise to tailor their studies and research interests.
• The course emphasizes a relaxed and informal learning environment with a strong commitment to student well-being through personal tutors.
• It is delivered at CAWR's teaching facilities at Ryton Gardens, featuring modern labs, a 5-acre organic farm, and extensive and beautiful organic gardens.
• Dedicated career advice for MSc students is provided, focusing on the field of ecologically sustainable and socially just food and agriculture and relevant organizations.

Tuition Fees and Payment Information:

• UK, Ireland , Channel Islands or Isle of Man
£11,200 | £15,200 (with prof. experience) Request fee information
• EU
£11,200 | £15,200 (with prof. experience) per year with EU support bursary
• £18,600 | £22,600 (with prof. experience) per year without EU support bursary
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• International
£18,600 | £22,600 (with prof. experience) Not available