Rosina Borrelli outlines the key elements of the IFSTAL (Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning) programme and describes progress since its launch in 2015.

The food sector needs to be able to tackle the interrelated food system challenges of food (in)security, diet-related and animal-to-human diseases, inequities and environmental degradation. There is great scope for enhanced policy and practice in the sector, while also identifying opportunities for business and enterprise and the many livelihoods they support. Possible interventions are embedded within political, economic, business, social, cultural and environmental contexts related to the whole food system, but ‘food systems thinking’ is needed to realise them. This was defined as a major skills gap by leading experts in the sector and so the Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme was conceived.

IFSTAL was launched back in 2015 by a group of seven higher education institutions with complementary knowledge offerings and a clear vision: to train a cohort of food systems professionals and equip them with the additional capabilities to define and tackle the systemic problems in the food system. The original partner institutions were: University of Oxford; City, University of London; University of Reading; University of Warwick; and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) – an interdisciplinary collaboration between Royal Veterinary College (RVC); London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Six years on, while the world has changed more than we could have imagined, the aim is still the same, yet more urgent. With a Community of Practice now being formed to facilitate the 1800+ group of global alumni, there is an even greater need for these individuals to find roles in the workplace.

Rosina Borrelli 概述了 IFSTAL（跨学科食品系统教学和学习）计划的关键要素，并描述了自 2015 年启动以来的进展。

食品部门需要能够应对粮食（不）安全、饮食相关疾病和动物对人类疾病、不平等和环境退化等相互关联的粮食系统挑战。该部门有很大的改进政策和实践的空间，同时也为商业和企业及其支持的许多生计寻找机会。可能的干预措施嵌入与整个粮食系统相关的政治、经济、商业、社会、文化和环境背景中，但需要“粮食系统思维”来实现它们。这被该领域的领先专家定义为主要的技能差距，因此构思了跨学科食品系统教学 (IFSTAL) 计划。

IFSTAL 于 2015 年由七所高等教育机构发起，提供互补的知识和明确的愿景：培训一批粮食系统专业人员，并使他们具备定义和解决粮食系统系统性问题的额外能力。原合作院校有：牛津大学；伦敦大学城市学院；雷丁大学；华威大学；和 Leverhulme 农业与健康综合研究中心 (LCIRAH)——皇家兽医学院 (RVC) 之间的跨学科合作；伦敦卫生与热带医学院（LSHTM）；和东方和非洲研究学院（SOAS）。

六年过去了，虽然世界的变化超出了我们的想象，但目标仍然相同，但更加紧迫。随着实践社区的形成，为 1800 多名全球校友提供便利，这些人更需要在工作场所找到角色。