Rural transformation

Food and plants in future landscapes

Looking forward to a diverse range of multidisciplinary experts covering the entire agricultural production chain.

Based on the article The Role of Trees in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics published in the Annual Review of Phytopathology, vol.52, by SIANI Member Roger Leakey. 

Heads up all young professionals!

The annual PBN symposium will take place this November at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark. The program will be lunch to lunch on 11-12 November and invited...

Research by PhD researcher Paola Ledo from the Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU

Man-made systemic changes to Earth’s life-supporting systems are now directly and indirectly affecting our health and well-being, climate change being the clearest example. These negative trends are also accelerated by social and economic drivers, such as poverty, inequality and conflict. Clearly, we need coordinated action to reduce the risks global environmental change imposes on global health and well-being.

Public health practitioners have long been aware of the close connections between health, ecosystems and society. In the past several decades the acceleration human-driven changes such as...

Who defines what rural development is, and how can it be understood within the wider context of capitalist development, conflicts and agrarian questions? Global climate change and sustainability...

The research associated to this PhD position focuses on understanding the role that agricultural commodity supply chain sustainability initiatives, such as certification schemes, moratoria, voluntary corporate commitments and government regulations, play in reducing the clearance forests and other ecosystems in the tropics.