Expert in Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems City-Region
From the 5 of April to the 7 of July of 2021 Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 18:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m. |
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Description
Food systems are complex and have many dimensions, including flows, exchanges, and cross-cutting impacts between rural and urban areas.
The food chain goes from the production of food, its distribution, processing, marketing, consumption and generation of waste, to the support infrastructures.
The expansion of cities has brought a growing demand for food that is linked, at the same time, with the challenges of improving rural livelihoods and their ecosystems. For this reason, it is necessary to generate proposals for comprehensive territorial development and, consequently, in which there is a greater balance in city-region relations that generates synergies that benefit both the urban and rural populations and the environment.
The city-region concept makes it clear that urban and rural links must be present in any goal or urban development plan. A key to achieving this is by creating new forms and structures of food governance that put the sustainability of life at the center and facilitate the transition to a sustainable and regenerative system.
Sustainable development goals
Zero hunger
Health & Wellness
Objectives and methodology
Objective
Strengthen the theoretical knowledge and skills applied on sustainable and regenerative food systems that allow to position an emerging approach to well-being in the province of Azuay.
Specific objectives
- Develop expertise in planning sustainable and regenerative food systems for various territorial actors that allow the integration of a new emerging approach to territorial well-being in the Azuay region and Ecuador, supported by food sovereignty.
- Prepare officials, technical staff and professionals of decentralized public entities, consultants and the public interested in making timely and efficient decisions for the development of sustainable food systems
- Propose to the Ecuadorian society proposals for territorial well-being based on sustainable and regenerative food systems.
Methodology
Each work team must carry out in each module different practices applied to a territory of incidence around the theme of sustainable food systems. Said practices will have a process configuration where each one of them will serve as input for the formulation of a final project on SASR-CR, which allows transferring a practical academic product with the possibility of being activated in the selected territory. It is worth mentioning that the formulated project must be structured based on the development and land use planning agendas on a different scale (national, provincial, cantonal and parochial). In addition, it will be oriented that the formulation of each project gives continuity to existing lines of work in the short and medium term of productive-based organizations, among others, considering in turn criteria of gender, sustainability, attention to vulnerable groups or in a situation exclusion
Duration
Total 130 hours
40 synchronous hours
40 asynchronous hours
50 hours of autonomous work
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Module I: Sustainable and regenerative agri-food models in the construction of city-region well-being
Dates: 5 from April to 25 Duration: 10 synchronous hours Capacitors: mgt. Kamila Torres Orellana Know the concepts, approaches and backbone processes around food sovereignty, the right to adequate food, agroecology, etc., as well as its link with global and local frameworks of action such as: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Habitat III, Pact of Milan, Constitution of Ecuador and LORSA, among others.
Backbone themes:
• Concepts, approaches and underlying processes on the SASR-CR for the construction of a territorial well-being.
• Understanding of the different dimensions in which the SASR-CR interact
• Regulatory, international and national frameworks around the SAS-CR.
• Sustainable and regenerative food systems of the SASR-CR in times of Covid19.
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Module II: Tools for the identification of processes related to SASR CR
Dates: The 26 16 April to May Duration: 20 synchronous hours Capacitors: Mgt. Kamila Torres Orellana and Mgt, Paúl Bravo López To contribute to the knowledge on the use of legal and geomatic tools for the activation of proposals related to the SASR that allow analyzing the systemic impact on territorial well-being.
Backbone themes:
• The importance of Ecuador's legal instruments to act on: why and how to do public policy to support and expand food sovereignty and agroecology processes.
• Geographic information systems for the identification of SASR-CR proposals.
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III: Participatory methodologies applied to the processes related to the SASR
Dates: From 17 from May to 6 in June Duration: 10 synchronous hours Capacitors: Mgt. Alicia Tenze Contribute to knowledge about the use of participatory methodologies to activate processes of collective construction around the SASR, which contribute positively to territorial well-being.
Backbone themes:
• Work with the territory's social networks
• Listening and participatory diagnosis
• The comprehensive and sustainable action plan
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IV: The formulation of projects on SASR
Dates: From 7 from June to 7 in July Duration: 10 synchronous hours Capacitors: mgt. Lina Santacruz Salazar This module will allow the student to know and apply a strategic phase of activation of the process of generating a SASR-CR. Transition proposals will be identified and formulated, based on the projection of specific actions and activities that contribute to their achievement.
Backbone themes:
• Eligibility criteria for projects related to SASR-CR.
• Identification and formulation of projects on SASR-CR in the context of COVID 19.
• Formulation of monitoring and evaluation instruments.
Certificates
Once the activities and requirements for the development of the course have been fulfilled, the participants will receive the approval certificate based on what is established in the Regulations of the Continuing Education Department, that is, that the participant obtains a minimum of 70% in the academic evaluation and 80% attendance at synchronous sessions, in each module.
Recipients
This program is aimed at public officials from the different sectional governments, consultants, representatives and technicians of community-based organizations, technicians from foundations, NGOs, and anyone interested in the subject.
Teachers
Investment
Single value $ 250,00
Payment Methods
All debit and credit cards are accepted.
Single value $ 250,00 (four modules). Code 1269
Teaching and Administrative Staff, once you check the box "Payment role discount" when making your online registration, the automatic discount to the payment role will be made, $ 83,33 in the months of April, May and June 2021.
UDA students, $ 250,00 will be deducted from the second tuition of the March-July 2021 cycle.
Site
Virtual platform of the University of Azuay
Registrations
Registrations are closed