• Course Pitch
This course is designed to develop your understanding and ability to build a traceable food supply chain. Specifically, the course covers topics around trends and innovations in traceability and promises the following learning outcomes:
→ What are the reasons motivating major food companies to embrace sustainable sourcing approaches?
→ Considering the environmental apprehensions, how could land-based seafood production technology potentially introduce disruptive changes in the seafood industry?
→ How can clean-label ingredients seize opportunities to align with emerging novel food trends?
→ In what ways are consumer mobile apps influencing manufacturers to adopt clean ingredients?
→ How do demands for carbon labeling impact the design of value chains and the preferences for partnerships within the food industry?
→ How are food companies facing friction with respect to balancing consumer preferences for environmental friendliness and being fair to the producers?
→ What threats and opportunities are presented for different crops due to the implementation of sustainable production requirements?

The course learning and assessment will help you understand the approach to building a fool-proof traceability system and action it within your work/business.

• Content & Assessment Guidelines
Please review the course outline below to set your expectations related to the content & certificate assessment needs for the course. You can complete the assessment and download Agribusiness Academy completion certificate. You can expect to complete this course and certification assessment in about 3-5 hours. We wish you a lot of success with the course/pathway and very sure that it will help you gain more clarity and execution confidence towards your outcome.

• Course & the Pathway Connection
This course can be pursued independently or as part of “Sustainable Sourcing” learning & reflection pathway. The pathway is designed to help you understand the opportunities and risks associated with sourcing in agribusiness value chains. Also, this pathway demonstrates how value propositions that have sourcing attributes within their competitive value proposition is helping them build profitable business models. The business examples and the business models designed within this pathway demonstrate that sourcing strategies and frameworks have a biggest contribution to make in building a safe, secured and sustainable food ecosystem. If you choose to enroll in the pathway, you'll have the option to receive an extra certificate upon completing the reflection exercise for the pathway. Enrolling to the pathway also gives you access to our facilitators via the AA Slack channel. You can review and enroll to the full pathway by following this link: https://lms.agribusiness.academy/catalog/index/cat:188

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