9 Best Food Production Courses on edX
We compared 9 Food Production courses currently listed on edX, priced from $5.00 to $149.00. 4 come from a named university or institution, including ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Adelaide University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 9
- Price range
- $5.00 – $149.00
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "food production" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $5.00 to $149.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Aquaponics – the circular food production system
Offered by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Aquaponics is a polyculture that combines aquaculture and hydroponics cultivation, i.e. fish farming and soil-independent food production, in a circulatory system with the aim of recycling nutrients from fish farming was...
$129.00listed price -
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Resource-Efficient Pond Aquaculture Grow-Out Operation
Offered by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Pond aquaculture is one of the most widespread and resource-efficient methods of fish farming, supporting food production and income generation. In this MOOC course of the ZHAW, you will learn the most important principl...
$139.00listed price -
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Grow Your Own Food
Offered by University of Alaska Fairbanks
Learn the basics from start to finish of how to successfully grow food. Learn how to garden productively and sustainably.
$119.00listed price -
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Understanding Agribusiness, Value Chains, and Consumers in Global Food Systems
Offered by Adelaide University
Learn about the dynamic business of food and agriculture, exploring value chain thinking and the role consumers play in our rapidly evolving food systems in this agribusiness course.
$149.00listed price -
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Siembra Directa: Contexto Histórico y Agricultura Certificada
Offered by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
En este MOOC se analiza el sistema agroproductivo y su relación con la demanda mundial de alimentos. Se abordará el sistema de siembra directa como respuesta a la producción de alimentos de forma sustentable en los tres...
$89.00listed price -
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e-Learning on Digital Agriculture
Offered by World Bank Group
Agriculture is no exception to digital revolution, going beyond a simple adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). According to ICRISAT, digital agriculture is defined as “ICT and data ecosystems to...
$5.00listed price -
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Irrigation Efficiency: more food with less water
Offered by KU Leuven
Learn to improve the efficiency of different irrigation system components over varying scales in order to extract less water from our resources while producing more food.
$59.00listed price -
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Sustainable Food: Production and Processing
Offered by CISL
Discover new models, processes and approaches for achieving sustainable food systems that can equitably meet the nutritional demands of an expanding global population within planetary boundaries.
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Sustainable Global Food Systems
Offered by The University of Edinburgh
How do we feed 11 billion people? Discover the importance of sustainable food systems on a global scale.
$59.00listed price
Best Food Production Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Aquaponics – the circular food production system | edX | ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences | $129.00 | View → |
| 2 | Resource-Efficient Pond Aquaculture Grow-Out Operation | edX | ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences | $139.00 | View → |
| 3 | Grow Your Own Food | edX | University of Alaska Fairbanks | $119.00 | View → |
| 4 | Understanding Agribusiness, Value Chains, and Consumers in Global Food... | edX | Adelaide University | $149.00 | View → |
| 5 | Siembra Directa: Contexto Histórico y Agricultura Certificada | edX | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba | $89.00 | View → |
| 6 | e-Learning on Digital Agriculture | edX | World Bank Group | $5.00 | View → |
| 7 | Irrigation Efficiency: more food with less water | edX | KU Leuven | $59.00 | View → |
| 8 | Sustainable Food: Production and Processing | edX | CISL | — | View → |
| 9 | Sustainable Global Food Systems | edX | The University of Edinburgh | $59.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 8 priced courses on this page run from $5.00 to $149.00, with the middle of the range around $119.00 — a spread of $144.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Adelaide University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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