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Eating for the environment
Food, nutrition and fresh water
‘You are what you eat’, goes the old adage, but what you eat also has an impact on the environment.
Date (DD-MM-YYYY)
25-08-2025 to 25-08-2026
Available on-demand until 25th August 2026
CPD points/hours/credits
Free statement of participation on completion
Cost
Free
Education type
Virtual
CPD subtype
On-demand
Description
This free course, Eating for the environment, will explore the links between food, nutrition and environmental sustainability. It will start by exploring the diversity on your dinner plate and encourage you to reflect on it in relation to dietary choices and preferences of people around the world. It will explore the connections between food, culture and traditions, and the challenges in providing healthy and nutritious food to the world’s growing population. The course will examine innovative approaches to food that also help environmental sustainability.
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- identify the diversity of ingredients on dinner plates from around the world
- list the ingredients of a dinner plate and place them on the taxonomic tree
- recognise traditional and cultural associations of food
- identify geographical origins of different foods and intellectual property rights over them
- explore the links between food choices and environmental sustainability
Contact details
Email address

The Open University Shop
Walton Drive
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK7 6AA