Rural transformation

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,...

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.

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...

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.

The pandemic gave rise to the use of digital tools in agricultural extension services and attracted more young people to the sector. Learn more with our insights from Eastern Africa.

The pandemic made us reflect on our priorities, and food is at the top of that list. Some grow veggies on their balcony, others take care of their forest.

Achieving food and nutrition security in fragile contexts requires transitioning from short-term humanitarian aid to long-term resilience-building strategies.

Presented by Julius Ecuru at the workshop "Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge based Bio-economy: How can Sweden assist?" organised by the SIANI Bio-economy Expert Group on 3 December 2014. 

Presented by Julius Ecuru at the workshop "Moving Africa Towards a Knowledge based Bio-economy: How can Sweden assist?" organised by the SIANI Bio-economy Expert Group on 3 December 2014. 

Aslihan Arslan, Senior Research Economist, Research and Impact Assessment Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), discussed the recent report on 'creating opportunities...