Overview

Food production has a major impact on global environmental change. With changing consumption patterns, this impact is expected to increase further in the near future. The world faces a massive challenge to increase the sustainability of the current food system, thereby helping to ensure healthier diets, increase food security and support rural communities while addressing climate change and safeguarding biological diversity. 

The Environment and Resource Management - Global Food Challenges programme from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam  aims to provide you with a profound understanding of the functioning of food systems and the ways these can be studied and evaluated in terms of sustainability. The specialisation will address the ways in which food systems vary across the world and how they change with time. More specifically, we will analyse how different stakeholders (i.e. public and private sector, civil society, international organisations, research communities, consumers) can contribute in their own way to the transformation towards a more sustainable food system.

Start working

With a Master’s degree in Environment and Resource Management, you have excellent employment prospects. Start working as a project manager at an NGO, choose a role in the private or public sector, or work for a (environmental) consultancy. Throughout the programme, various training modules are offered to increase your employability.

Open Days

Join the Online Master’s Event on Thursday, 26 November, or the International Master’s Webinar on Tuesday, 6 October, to learn more about the programme and studying at VU Amsterdam.