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Health and nutrition
 
Blog Post
14 March 2018
Together for a world without hunger: Sweden commits US$370 million to WFP

Sweden and the UN World Food Programme have entered a landmark agreement that will bring hope to millions of people trapped by war and displacement crises.

Health and nutrition
 
Blog Post
7 March 2018
Born undernourished, die undernourished: We have to break that curse!

This was the concluding remark by Dr Jessica Fanzo in her inspiring presentation at the Third Global Food Security Conference in Cape Town, this last December 2017. I attended the conference on...

Rural transformation
Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia
 
Slides
16 February 2018
Strengthening Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) and Food Systems in SE Asia

Wayne Nelles from the Chulalongkorn University School of Agricultural Resources (CUSAR) presents an overview of the context and importance for achieving SDGs in southeast Asia with a focus on...

Rural transformation
Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia
 
Slides
16 February 2018
Strengthening HESA and Food Systems in the Phillipines and Southeast Asia

The Agricultural Training Insitute's (ATI) perspectives on achieving SDG's and how to improve investments and government policy towards higher agricultural education in SE Asia.

Rural transformation
Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia
 
Blog Post
8 February 2018
Why Higher Agricultural Education Matters For SDGs in Southeast Asia

While doing my Ph.D. in the 1990s one of my personal concerns was typical of a young Canadian environmentalist exposed almost daily to unsustainable logging of pristine old growth rainforests....

Climate change and resource conflict
Landscape management
 
News Story
31 January 2018
Peter Holmgren kopplar ihop skog och utvecklingsfrågor

Skog, landskap och levebröd är en livsviktig mix för människans framtid, menar Peter Holmgren, som har varit generaldirektör för CIFOR i fem år. CIFOR är ett mellanstatligt skogsinstitut...

Landscape management
 
News Story
21 December 2017
Eight SLU projects receive grants for development research

Of the approximately 154 million SEK allocated by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to development research during the period 2017-2021, more than 27 million were rewarded to SLU....

Landscape management
 
News Story
29 November 2017
Nigeria has pledged to restore 4 million hectares of degraded land by 2030

Johannesburg, November 29, 2017 –  Nigeria has pledged to restore 4 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 as part of the AFR100 Initiative and Bonn Challenge, signalling the continuing...

Gender and equality
 
Blog Post
10 October 2017
The gender agenda, a vortex of misunderstandings?

Is it really about gender? Or is it about accepting and understanding another human being?

Climate change and resource conflict
Trade and production
Forests, Landscapes and Food Security
 
Event
28 September 2017
Annual FLARE Meeting 2017 in Stockholm

Previous meetings (Paris 2015, Edinburgh 2016) emerged as a unique space for presentations and discussions around forests and livelihoods, and for generating new relationships among those in our...