masterclasses
masterclasses
Welcome to our capacity-building masterclasses
Food Industry Sustainability Masterclass Structure
Masterclasses
The courses are designed to help you transform knowledge into action, and to help your organisation reach its sustainability goals. Taking any of the courses, however, is just the beginning of the journey. After completing three courses, you will be invited for a consultation process.
Action
Upon gaining the necessary knowledge from the courses, you will be taken through a consultation process that starts with identifying the gaps in your business processes on your journey towards your sustainability goals. Following this, you will be closely working with IntelliDigest to close the identified gaps.
Meet the course facilitators
Dr Wayne Martindale
Associate Professor Food Insights and Sustainability National Centre for Food Manufacturing
Course
The Role of Nutrition in Achieving a Sustainable Food System
Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu
CEO of IntelliDigest
Courses
Tech and Data as Enablers for Sustainability in the Food System
Prof Sonal Choudhary
Principal Investigator at Science Technology Facility Council Food Network+
Course
Tech and Data as Enablers for Sustainability in the Food System
Dr Tamara Bucher
Senior Lecturer - Nutritional Knowledge & Food Choices at University of Newcastle Australia
Courses
The Role of Consumer Behaviour in driving Food Sustainability
Barbara Bray
CEO of Alo Solutions - Food Safety & Nutrition Consultancy
Course
Food Safety for Sustainable Food System
Giuseppe Nocella
Programme Director MSc Food Economics and Marketing - Reading University
Course
Food Security for Sustainable Food System & Life Cycle Assessment
About the Knowledge-to-Action Masterclasses
The IntelliDigest Food System Sustainability Programme is designed to empower you to deliver sustainable impacts in your organisation.
Food sustainability is a major, global challenge for governments, companies and individuals. The next ten years will be a turning point in how we produce, process, store and distribute food sustainably across the world, from farm to fork. Our Food Sustainability Programme focuses on enabling government decision-makers, corporate executives, development institutions and farmers to plan and make the necessary change happen.
Each session is delivered once every month and takes you through the key issues in food system sustainability- policy and practice, food security, food safety, consumer behaviour, Nutrition and dietary choice, food loss and waste reduction strategies, and how to make impacts in this Decade of Action to 2030.
The programme is designed and developed by experts across academia, industry and development institutions and civil society. The courses within the programme can be taken separately, although participants will benefit most if they complete the course.
The programme is delivered online, and combines small-group sessions with one-to-one executive learning support to diagnose the sustainability challenges faced by each participant in their food business once they have completed up to three course.
The executive learning will enable us to use our unique diagnosis process to explore the sustainability gap that your organisation is facing, awarding you a Gap Certificate- a great demonstration that your organisation has taken that bold step to lead in food sustainability.
We will work with you within a period of 2-5 years as applicable to close the gaps and award you a certificate of accomplishment, an internationally recognised achievement as a leader in food industry sustainability.
What The Programme Covers
The IntelliDigest Food Sustainability Programme is structured in seven masterclasses that are accessible at all times with a monthly Mastermind sessions:
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Life-Cycle Thinking and your Supply Chain for Sustainable Food System
- Tools for supporting Life-Cycle Thinking
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The role of Nutrition in achieving a Sustainable Food System
- The role of Consumer Behaviour in driving Food Sustainability
- Tech and Data as Enablers for Sustainability in the Food System
- Food Safety in a Sustainable Food System
- Food Security in a Sustainable Food System
Each course reviews the latest thinking in both policy and practice, and provides specific actions and timeframes to help participants deliver their individual objectives. Each course also provides participants with opportunities to share individual case studies and other resources, and most importantly, build their global professional networks.
We are here to support you at every step in your food sustainability journey.
What You will Learn
The core focus of the programme is to empower participants to identify and define specific food sustainability improvement areas within their countries, organisations and communities. Participants are then provided with structured tools and methodologies to enable them to explore new policy and strategy perspectives. Team assignments and presentations are used to facilitate new thinking, and also to deepen the overall learning experience. Participants will also benefit from the latest research undertaken by IntelliDigest and its university partners, and also ongoing research by each course leader.
Who Would Benefit
Our courses will be of particular benefit to:
1. Farmers;
2. CSR and innovation managers in food manufacturing businesses, food retailing and catering businesses;
3. CEOs and operations managers of hospitality and food sector businesses;
4. Food policy makers in both Government and Non-Governmental organisations;
5. Agritech/Foodtech investors; 6. Curious and conscious consumers.
6. Curious and conscious consumers.
The IntelliDigest Food System Sustainability Programme Certificate
Participants will receive a certificate of participation in the course following the completion of any of the knowledge to action courses.
On completing of at least 3 courses, the participant will engage with us on a free 1-2-1 consultation to review the sustainability gaps in their process and business model as well as access to use our Food Industry Sustainability Index Tool to establish their sustainability rating and identify the gap(s) for improvement.
We will work with you and your organisation for the next 2-5 years to define measures to address those sustainability gaps enabling you to continuously improve your sustainability rating and profile while earning an Internationally recognised certificate of Accomplishment.