This blog offers some clues and brings you closer to the production of the world’s most aromatic rice variety.

I googled myself today. Not my name, no, I googled what you could describe me as, a ‘youth in agriculture’. If you haven’t done that yet, let me tell you that google has 179 000 000 hits on...

The discourse associated with irrigated agriculture often highlights the challenges that are faced with respect to inefficiencies, underperformance and impacts on the hydrological cycle,...

The year 2030 is approaching and we have a big challenge ahead to end hunger, achieve global food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. We should be using all the...

While doing my Ph.D. in the 1990s one of my personal concerns was typical of a young Canadian environmentalist exposed almost daily to unsustainable logging of pristine old growth rainforests....

Varför gör Afrikas och Europas ledare idag samma misstag som i samband med de afrikanska ländernas självständighet? Om befolkningen ska få mat i framtiden måste jordbruket utvecklas,...

Do you know where the palm oil on your breakfast peanut butter sandwich comes from? Can you tell if it comes from a former pristine rainforest? What if I tell you that it soon may be possible to...

In Kenya, nearly 70% of people reside in rural areas, and almost 80% of the rural population rely on agriculture for a living or sustenance. Like much of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Kenya faces two...

Valle del Cauca is where the jungle foothills of the Andes splash into the piercing green basin of the Cauca River. It is a captivating landscape. The land here is the most fertile in the entire...

In this blog I will briefly tell about the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility and describe what I found particularly interesting during this “week of land rights” in Stockholm.