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At this year’s Annual Meeting we have followed the nutrition trail to see how better nutrition can unlock sustainability pathways. This post shares the highlights brought by the speakers at our event.

African leaders and their governments must whole-heartedly take on the issue of agricultural development in order to become the force of change which is now needed in order to create a modern African society. This can, however, only be done gradually but still with the final goal in sight.

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...

Recent study by researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Mistra Council for Evidence-Based Environmental Evidence (EviEM) suggests that sequestration effects of low-tillage agriculture can be limited only to the topsoil.

EU-funded BONUS RETURN project is offering pre-commercialisation support to top innovations addressing nutrient and carbon reuse in the Baltic Sea.

Varför gör Afrikas och Europas ledare idag samma misstag som i samband med de afrikanska ländernas självständighet? Om befolkningen ska få mat i framtiden måste jordbruket utvecklas,...

Today, there are durum wheat varieties that can be grown on the savannah, along the Senegal River during the four months of the year when temperatures reach 35-40 degrees (°C) and it is too hot...

Salme Timmusk from the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and colleagues have received 3 million SEK from VR (the Swedish...

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....