Rural transformation
2015 is marked in history as a super development year. The Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 interconnected goals for global development which were agreed on in September 2015, are part of the super development plan.
New paper by Stockholm Environment Institute reviews existing methods for assessing livestock water resource use, recognizing that water plays a vital role in global food supply and that livestock production systems consumes a large amount of the available water resources.
Economic and political decisions have predominantly prioritised certain values of nature, particularly market-based instrumental values of nature. Hence, the report helps policymakers better understand the very different ways in which people conceive and value nature and shows that various pathways can contribute to achieve just and sustainable futures.
The African Development Bank has launched a ten year strategy to further the ongoing transformation of the African continent, where focus lies in two objectives: inclusive growth and transition to green growth. The continent has had a strong growth over the last decade, however it has been an uneven development and not including all citizens, hence why the first objective is very crucial.
Part of the seminar "How can climate-smart agriculture and rural development foster resilience?” on 23rd of August 2017 at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Magdalena Streijffert förklarade hur Fairtrade hjälper odlare och anställda i världens utvecklingsländer att kopplas upp till en internationell marknad där de ges en möjlighet till ökad...
När ett stort antal ”resilience-aktörer” samlades på Sida för en tid sedan var alla överens om att det är är ett område som kräver fortsatt prioritering. Studier visar att Sida gör massor på området, men det framgår dåligt i rapporteringen.
This report addresses an important aspect of the food security discourse: the ecological foundation of food security.
Representatives from the African Women Agribusiness Network on their vision and the social impact of their activities for smallholder female farmers in Africa
This document is the background document to the 2014-2015 expert group "Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge Based Bio-economy; How can Sweden assist?"