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This course will examine the major challenges facing food and agricultural systems and their implications for policymaking at national and international levels. Population and income growth are expected to raise the global demand for food, increasing pressures on natural resources. Globally agriculture produces ample calories, yet nearly a billion people remain undernourished, while an even greater number are overweight or obese. There is a pressing need to improve consumer’s food security and nutrition, while ensuring more sustainable production on the supply side. At the same time, climate change will add to stresses facing the agricultural sector, which will itself need to make a much greater contribution to mitigation efforts. Policies to address these long-term priorities will need to be reconciled with efforts to strengthen resilience to shocks, such as those inflicted by the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The course will examine how these challenges can be addressed in a coherent way, and the policy and institutional reforms that are required.