Rural transformation
The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP) (A/RES/68/231).The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments, relevant organizations, non-governmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders.
The United States is delighted to invite you to the International Year of the Woman Farmer – Empowering Woman Farmers to tackle Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change side event, to be held at the...
This brief explores how two different framings - the Resilience Discourse (RD) and the Human Security and Development Discourse (HSDD), can produce different conclusions about vulnerability in...
At the Living Soil Forum in Järna SIANI got the exciting opportunity to talk with Dr. Vandana Shiva about various issues connected to soil and soil management.
Tobias Bandel of the agricultural consultancy company Soil and More gives a background on how to make a business from teaching organic farming practices in low-income countries. Taking care of all...
Here is SIANI's Petter Nordqvist interviewing the CEO of Sustainable Food Trust: Patrick Holden. He earlier held a speech on personal field work experience and every-day reflections with...
Living Soil Forum project coordinator Pieter Ploeg summarizes the outcomes of the forum on the last day of the week. The various discussions, presentations and workshops have led not only to...
Soil biology professor Håkan Wallander on soil properties associated with organic farming, the role of nutrients, and what practices are important for a long-term sustainable farming.Also check...
What are the links between women, agroforestry, leadership, land tenure and farmer organizations? After the Focali seminar "Feminism and forest - a love story" in Almedalen 2017, Wangu Mutua,...
Focali researcher Matilda Palm is currently working at Ruth DeFries lab at Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology Department (E3B) at Columbia University. Read this interview with her to find out how it was to move from Sweden to work and live in New York.