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 1500 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.
Latest news and blog posts
Workshop 3: Time for team work
Nobody is perfect, but a team can be. IFSTAL students Katharina Wabnitz and Joaquim Muntané reflect on Workshop 3 as well as their IFSTAL experience so far… Workshop 3 took place in Oxford... READ MORE
8 Takeaways from the 2019 IFSTAL Public Lecture
The IFSTAL Public Lecture provides an excellent opportunity to sit back and reflect on the learnings from the year. Sue Pritchard’s talk in particular, had just the right sort of messaging we needed... READ MORE
Exploring system complexity: Workshops 1 and 2
With Year 5 now firmly underway, IFSTAL Education Coordinator Saher Hasnain reflects on the first two workshops. Workshop 1 at SOAS, London brought together the diverse array of students from the Year 5... READ MORE
Nature Food highlights the IFSTAL approach
A comment piece in the newly launched Nature Food journal puts the IFSTAL approach to creating food-system thinkers in the spotlight. The piece, authored collaboratively by members of the IFSTAL team, sets out... READ MORE