The safety and wholesomeness of food is a critical element of a prosperous and healthy society. Consumers expect food to be grown, processed, and handled in ways that maintain high quality and safety standards. This is achieved, in part, through development of food standards implemented through food regulations that establish performance and process criteria related to foodborne hazards along the...

In this interdisciplinary unit, students will be introduced to systems thinking and practice in a farming context. Systems approaches will be used to explore how broader social, cultural, political, economic and ecological factors influence farming. Using local and international case studies, students will apply different systems approaches to analyse complex problems in agriculture and explore...