Rural transformation

A seminar with the ‘green economics’ expert hosted by SIANI, SEI and partners focused on the role of ecosystem services in our economy and how to include their value in the financial systems we use.

You must be wondering why the title? Well, this comes from a debate during the Third Global Food Security Conference in Cape Town in December 2017, and I will explain below the context in which it...

Energy and food are basic human survival needs. Today three quarters of the people in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) have no access to adequate, reliable and safe energy sources for cooking and heating, and rely on biomass traditional energy forms such as dung, agricultural residues, wood and charcoal.

Brian Kuns, SLU, discusses Corporations and peasants: post-communist agrarian change in Ukraine. He will focus on a dominant de-agrarianisation trend in Ukraine is corporatization of agriculture,...

A SIANI expert group will contribute to a side event at COP 16 that explains the link between violent conflicts and biodiversity.

Pursuant to provisions contained in decision 33/COP.14 and subsequent consultations with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the...

Join the a post-match analysis of the COP15 and look forward to what is in store now it has been signed.

Recording of the webinar “COP15 Post-match analysis

How can the new Global Biodiversity Framework be a transformative moment for nature and people? That is the question Focali-SIANI, Swedbio and CSPR at Linköping University, posed to a diverse panel of experts from policy and practice who participated in the COP15 in which the Framework was negotiated.

While COP15 is crowned with the title 'Paris Agreement for nature,' what are the concerns over its '30x30' target and its impacts on Indigenous peoples?