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The joint SIANI-SLU Global and Focali Workshop on Community resource management, landscapes and climate change in South- and Southeast Asia took place on 16-17 May.

With 19 participants, an introductory worskhop on Theory of Change for Agricultural Development took place at SLU, Uppsala on April 26, 2016. The event was organized by the SIANI-SLU Global theme on Sustainable Agricultural Production and Food Security.

A study by Benjamin Warner and Christopher Kuzdas, University of Massachusets recently published in the Climate and Development Journal looked into what happens in the Costa Rican agro-industrial before the dry season.

On the 22nd of April, the SIANI expert group on “Food Waste Prevention Strategies for Global Food Chains” arranged a workshop to discuss good examples and possible solutions to reduce food waste on a global scale with a whole value chain perspective in mind.

SIANI Youth held its first event in the Student Union of the University of Agricultural Sciences in Ultuna Campus in Uppsala. The purpose of the event was to create a space for sharing experience about how to start a career in international development.

Research by Tadesse Amera, PhD researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU

Research by PhD researcher Paola Ledo from the Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU

2015 is marked in history as a super development year. The Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 interconnected goals for global development which were agreed on in September 2015, are part of the super development plan.

Trots att det täcker så stor del av jordens yta är vatten en begränsad resurs eftersom i princip allt sötvatten är uppbundet i polarisar och glaciärer eller lagrat under jord i form av grundvatten. Karin Glaumann, programansvarig vid SIWI, inledde seminariet med att ge en bakgrund för vattenproblematiken och den brist som förväntas uppstå i klimatförändringarnas spår.