Improving the effectiveness and sustainability of agri-food systems is vital to tackling the challenges of global population growth, rapid urbanisation, food and environmental security, and diet and health. These challenges affect affluent and low and middle income countries. Addressing them is key to moving hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and central to many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. You will be assessed through in-course assessments and examinations. A research project or dissertation will form an important part of your final-year assessment. This programme aim to equip you for careers in: agri-food research, such as PhD and ultimately postdoctoral positions;  national or international policy roles, such as researchers, research project commissioners/managers, or science advisers in government or inter-governmental departments or agencies; non-governmental organisations, as science advisers or research managers for agri-food/planetary health/international development/aid-related charities; the agri-food industry, for example as farming or agri-food industry consultants, technical experts, researchers, research project commissioners/managers for multinational agri-food companies, or as food product supply chain managers for retailers.