Rural transformation

In discussing food systems transformation, there are always two camps with very different solutions. But do you really need to pick a side?

Cocoa farming was introduced in the Mount Fako region of Cameroon in 1886 by the Germans with the aim of supplying their local factories with raw materials (cocoa beans). They owned and managed vast hectares of cocoa plantations which were worked forcefully by indigenous slaves.

Launch of the note on Critical, emerging and enduring issues for food security and nutrition

The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition is pleased to announce that the hybrid event for the launch of its 17th report "Data collection and analysis tools for food security...

Launch of the HLPE 18th report on “Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition”

Yusra Moshtat is from Baghdad, Iraq. She fled the Gulf War in the 1990s and came to Sweden. This blog tells her astonishing story and how she ended up working with new immigrants, helping them to integrate through exploring Swedish nature. 

Coffee is usually grown in tropical forest areas – places rich in biodiversity which are often home for poor smallholder farmers. Coffee is the second most consumed drink in the world after...

This is a summary of a SIANI seminar about the impact of coffee certification on livelihoods and sustainable farming practices

A study by Benjamin Warner and Christopher Kuzdas, University of Massachusets recently published in the Climate and Development Journal looked into what happens in the Costa Rican agro-industrial before the dry season.

Dr. Segenet Kelemu, Director General of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) was one of the keynote speakers in the "Zero Hunger in a Changing Climate" Sida Development Talk, co-organised by SIANI and SEI.