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Four SLU researchers have recently received grants amounting to more than 13 million Swedish Kronor from Vetenskapsrådet (VR) to do research on development issues.The following projects have received grants:

“That´s how universities should be”, said the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Her Exellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, after the morning presentations by Vice-Chancellor Peter Högberg, SLU Global´s Director Anders Malmer and three of SLU´s researchers. 

The Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, has said that agribusiness can curb unemployment among youth and to attract more young people to the sector, the 'Farming is Cool Rwanda' project was launched last week that is set to empower Rwanda's youth through a agribusiness.

The Swedish World Food Day celebration was held the 21st of October in Stockholm. The event was a collaboration between the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI), Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation and the Swedish FAO committee.

Very seldom forest communities are treated as true partners in project development together with organizations, companies or the government.

Melinda Fones Sundell blog from the 2nd Global Food Security Conference in Cornell.

Melinda Fones Sundell blog from the 2nd Global Food Security Conference in Cornell.

This report from Food Tank, CARE International and the CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) – Cultivating Equality: Delivering Just and Sustainable Food Systems in a Changing Climate – demonstrates how inequality determines who eats first and who eats worst, and how this shapes people’s ability to adapt to climate change.

The Georg-August-Universität Göttingen offers the MSc programme Tropical and International Forestry with the international degree Master of Science (M.Sc.).