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Health and nutrition
 
Bilder
7 April 2016
Herbert Smorenburg – Gain cash crop value chain nutrition program

Measuring the impact: A case study on the impact of improved nutrition in the value chain

Trade and production
 
Bilder
7 April 2016
Katja Freiwald – Improved nutrition for tea farming families

Katja Freiwald (Unilever Global Partnerships Director) on improved food and nutrition security for tea farming families

Climate change and resource conflict
Trade and production
Moving Africa Towards A Knowledge Based Bio-economy; How Can Sweden Assist?
 
Blogg
29 March 2016
Opening Pandora’s box of agrobiotechnology, what’s in it for smallholder farmers in the developing countries?

Bio-technologies have already improved crop and livestock productivity for millions of small-scale farmers around the world.There is, however, a common agreement that agrobiotechnology is not a means in itself, but has to be combined with other disciplines and drivers such as agroecology, functional markets and value chains, to be fully effective.

Climate change and resource conflict
 
Video
10 February 2016
Marie Ottosson – Introduction to SIDA Development Talks: Zero Hunger in a Changing Climate

An introduction by the Assistant Director General at Sida about the challenges of reaching SDG2 - Zero Hunger.

Trade and production
Youth
 
Publikation
11 December 2015
Africa Agriculture Status Report 2015 – Youth in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

On September 25-27, 2015, the United Nations is holding a summit at which the Sustainable Development Goals and their associated targets for the next fifteen years are to be adopted. The Goals are...

Trade and production
Sustainable Agricultural Production and Food Security
 
Nyhet
23 May 2014
‘Scaling-up’ – From Technical Transfer to Empowerment

In the past scaling-up in agriculture was all about the ways extension could help informing farmers more effectively and about application of the good agricultural practice research.

Gender and equality
Trade and production
 
Nyhet
4 April 2014
How to Make Responsible Agricultural Investments in Developing Countries Effective?

A growing population as well as the growing role of biofuels has set the trend for increased demand on agricultural production systems. Meeting future food and energy demand on limited land area requires intensification in production and, hence, increased investment in the agricultural sector.

Landscape management
Trade and production
 
Blogg
18 March 2014
Can ‘Insetting’ Make Carbon Finance Work Better for Farmers?

Carbon finance has become a hot topic in rural development, with many governments and civil-society groups looking to leverage the carbon capture potential of trees and soil to raise funds for agricultural and agroforestry projects.

Gender and equality
Trade and production
 
Nyhet
26 September 2013
Transforming Gender Relations in Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa – a book by SIANI

This book distills lessons learned about integrating gender equality into agricultural development initiatives in Africa, with case studies of efforts at all levels, from households to national government.

Trade and production
Youth
 
Blogg
27 August 2013
Historic Cocoa Farming in Cameroon: Future For Smallholders?

Cocoa farming was introduced in the Mount Fako region of Cameroon in 1886 by the Germans with the aim of supplying their local factories with raw materials (cocoa beans). They owned and managed vast hectares of cocoa plantations which were worked forcefully by indigenous slaves.