Rural transformation

Anders Malmer, International Coordinator Swedish Forest Agency and Professor in Tropical Forestry SLU

Matthew Fielding is the Communications Manager at the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI). Established in 2008, SIANI aims to enhance collaboration among international development actors with a focus on reducing poverty through sustainable agricultural production.

SIANI 4 will support the transformation of food systems by promoting the rights and agency of rural youth, the prosperity of smallholder farmers and SMEs in production systems.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on small livestock producers in low-income countries and worsened food insecurity. Assem Abu Hatab, Lena Krautscheid and Sofia Boqvist,...

A short presentation of the SIANI Agriculture-Sanitation Expert Group.

In a recent debate article published in the Swedish local newspaper, Uppsala Nya Tidning, Professor Kjell Havnevik of the Nordic Africa Institute, questions the reporting of economic growth in Africa.

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

Learn the main highlights from the 32nd SuSanA meeting on the value of human excreta and wastewater as fertiliser for improving soil quality and crop productivity.

The SEI Initiative on Sustainable Sanitation organized a session at AfricaSan 4 in Dakar entitled Productive Sanitation, Food Security and Resilient Livelihoods: What Have We Learned and What Are Barriers to Scale and Sustainability?

The seminar will examine the widely neglected and underestimated adverse nutritional impact of lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). It makes apparent how governments struggling to...