Rural transformation and AMR: Sustainable livestock production and low use of antimicrobials. Presentation by Professor Ulf Magnusson, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, on the 19th...
Presented by Melinda Fones Sundell, Senior Advisor, SIANI. Conversation with Karin Oskarsson, Programme Manager, Unit for Global Economy and Environment at Sida and Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive...
SIANI kicks off its 3rd phase with the annual meeting on 19th of January 2017. We invite everyone interested in promoting knowledge sharing, dialogue, and collaboration to advance sustainable...
The Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme is a global multi-stakeholder initiative with the goal to accelerate the shift towards more sustainable food systems.
“The challenges we face may seem overwhelming and out of reach for us to solve. But that is not true. Each and every one of us can be an agent of change, no matter our age or means.”
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.
Is it OK to keep eating meat? Or even milk, cheese and eggs? It’s almost guaranteed that this topic will come up whenever dinner table conversation turns to sustainability. Livestock production has been implicated in many of our biggest environmental challenges, from climate change to deforestation to the critical state of many coastal ecosystems.
Food security is often considered fulfilled if a nation has access to food in some fashion; whether that food is locally grown or imported from elsewhere is less important. In a way, food sovereignty approach goes a step further and emphases self-reliance and independence from external food sources.
Virginia H. Dale (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) presents a landscape design approach to assess effects of bioenergy on ecosystem and social services