Rural transformation

“How can we change the food system in order for it to provide us with healthy food, save environment and make a business sense?” “Should we give up on our planet if the solutions don’t make business sense?” and “Does food production need stricter regulation and how does business get on board of the global race for sustainability?”

If you are young and interested in the link between climate and gender but don’t know where to start, or if you have already engaged in some activism but want tips on how to make sense of the...

Presented as part of the SLU Global Food Security Research Symposium in 2013 

The following blog highlights five critical ingredients I have gleaned from my participation in COP28 as necessary to create sustainable climate-friendly agriculture and food systems.

Reproduction is a key parameter determining the level of production and profitability in a dairy herd. Low fertility leads to productivity losses which can be directly translated into economic...

Damiano de Felice from Access to medicine foundation is being interviewed by SIANI during the World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Interview in connection to the Social and Sustainability Science in ASEAN conference, co-arranged by the SIANI Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) Expert Group.

The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition reflects on what the work being done to make SDG2 a reality and the road ahead to reach it

Flora Hajdu discusses the de-agrarianisation in rural Eastern Cape: abandonment of field farming, but intensification of vegetable gardening?. She will focus on the findings from a 14-year...

David Neves is a Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa. He will be discussed...