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A team from the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) visited SLU on 17 November with the aim of strengthening existing and exploring new partnerships.

Take the time to get to know the themetic cooperation between SIANI & Focali around forests, landscapes and food security at the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) in Paris on December 5-6.

Zero net deforestation is the new standard for doing business in production of soy, beef, palm oil, paper, and other agricultural commodities.

This expert group aims to establish a network linking the international and the national Swedish resource bases for agriculture and development.

Are we ready to meet the world’s  increasing food demand over the coming decades? Some people are doubtful of how we are going to feed 2.4 billion more people when no extra land is available and degradation of existing farmland is widespread.

The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP) (A/RES/68/231).The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments, relevant organizations, non-governmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders.

Four SLU researchers have recently received grants amounting to more than 13 million Swedish Kronor from Vetenskapsrådet (VR) to do research on development issues.The following projects have received grants:

“That´s how universities should be”, said the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Her Exellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, after the morning presentations by Vice-Chancellor Peter Högberg, SLU Global´s Director Anders Malmer and three of SLU´s researchers. 

The Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, has said that agribusiness can curb unemployment among youth and to attract more young people to the sector, the 'Farming is Cool Rwanda' project was launched last week that is set to empower Rwanda's youth through a agribusiness.