Have you ever considered that you’re not the only one who decides what food ends up on your plate? On the occasion of World Food Day 2018, which will mark the 73rd anniversary of FAO's founding...
SLU Global supports and develops SLU’s engagement to improve poor people’s situation in low-income countries, based on the UN sustainable development goals. We are doing this through sharing...
During the 7-8th of June 2018, young researchers met at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala to discuss challenges related to rural development. A special focus was...
How much do you know about the environmental impact of milk products?
There are many initiatives and instruments for carbon offsetting and climate change mitigation, but how are they developing? What is their implementation status? And how effective are they for...
This event is part of GLF Bonn 2017. Climate change is a reality and, for those most affected by it, it is often experienced as a change in the most basic commodity: water. Drawing on the...
Man-made systemic changes to Earth’s life-supporting systems are now directly and indirectly affecting our health and well-being, climate change being the clearest example. These negative trends are also accelerated by social and economic drivers, such as poverty, inequality and conflict. Clearly, we need coordinated action to reduce the risks global environmental change imposes on global health and well-being.
Both the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the European Commission are promoting agroforestry as an important farming system for global food security as well as to adapt...
Public health practitioners have long been aware of the close connections between health, ecosystems and society. In the past several decades the acceleration human-driven changes such as...
Is it really about gender? Or is it about accepting and understanding another human being?