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SIANI is currently being evaluated by an evaluation team consisting of Bo Tengnäs , Mats Denninger and Anna Tengnäs. The purpose is to evaluate the ongoing SIANI 2 and assist the secretariat and the steering committee to outline the next phase of the SIANI network development.
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A joint SIANI-SLU Global workshop took place on March 3, 2016 at SEI, Stockholm. The workshop aimed at discussing the impact of the Swedish involvement in capacity building as well as lessons learned. The workshop had the participation of international researchers, PhD and master students, members of the Swedish government, universities, consulting agencies and the SIANI network.
This new article is the result from a recently published study in Nature Publishing Group journal Scientific Reports by a team of researchers from CIFOR, ICRAF, CATIE and INERA, lead by Associate Professor Ulrik Ilstedt of SLU (The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences).
Coffee is the most traded agricultural commodity, the world’s demand for coffee is massive, and satisfying this demand needs space.
Three students are currently doing a minor field study (MFS) in Uganda, investigating how the coffee black twig borer can be controlled without cutting down trees.
The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture 2016 (GFIA 2016) is the world’s largest collection of sustainable agriculture innovations, attracting some the world’s brightest minds to show the world how game-changing technologies can feed the world. With the support of over 20 foundation partners and international collaborators, GFIA 2016 hosts over 4 000 participants from 80 nations.
On 11 February 2016 representatives from the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP) and the Field Alliance (TFA) visited SLU for discussions about cooperation on management and sustainable use of agricultural, industrial and consumer chemicals in Southeast Asia.
On 2 February 2016, the Ethiopian Ambassador for Sweden and the Nordic countries, Her Excellency Woinshet Tadesse visited SLU.The Ambassador Woinshet Tadesse met with Vice-Chancellor Peter Högberg and several SLU researchers for discussions about on-going and future research collaborations between Ethiopia and SLU.