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Course
Master of Science in Nutrition and Rural Development


Degree awarded
Master's Degree

Address
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium



Ghent University, Belgium

Master of Science in Nutrition and Rural Development


Programme goals

Healthy and sustainable diets are a global challenge. While large and generally poor populations face hunger and under-nutrition, overweight and diet related chronic diseases have taken on pandemic proportions mostly in developed and transforming economies. In addition, changes in nutrition and diets have a significant incontestable impact and on natural resources and climate change which cannot be underestimated.