IFSTAL is a pioneering learning community and resource to enable a step change in food systems thinking. We have already built a large and diverse community of over 1400 food systems thinkers, including students from a wide range of backgrounds, alumni and workplace practitioners. IFSTAL is available to all postgraduate students enrolled at the participating institutions. The programme equips participants with the skills to apply critical interdisciplinary systems thinking to issues of long-term food security through fostering intra- and inter-institution activities, and the means for taking new learning to the work-place.
- Make change happen in the workplace
- See the bigger food systems picture
- Meet others who want to enact change
- Attend exclusive workshops and webinars
Find out more about IFSTAL and how IFSTAL works.
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Latest news and blog posts
IFSTAL launches Year Five
Building on its success at creating a graduate cohort equipped to bring about positive change in the food system, the Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme is entering its fifth year... READ MORE
Summer school day 6 – The final presentations
On the last day of summer school, the groups rose admirably to the food systems challenges set at the beginning of the week, as Louise Whatford, IFSTAL Education Coordinator, explains. The final day... READ MORE
Summer school day 5 – Workplace speakers on collaboration, communication and connection
The inspiring words of our guest speakers were a reminder that the pathway to becoming a food system changemaker is not always linear. The food system is vast and complex; every IFSTAL student... READ MORE
Summer school: Field trip part two – A lot to digest
Rosina Borrelli looks back at her group’s field trip, which took in two organisations that operate at opposite ends of the food system. Our group was also assigned visits to witness two very... READ MORE