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.
The Sustainable Development Goals framework includes the ambition to provide all people with access to safe water, sanitation and food. However, despite multiple linkages between water, sanitation and food production, these sectors are often handled separately. Holistic approach to water, sanitation and food production is also rare in the development cooperation work.
Surveys for Estonia’s national food waste assessment reveal that the country throws away a total of 92,000 tons of food annually, worth close to €100 million.
In the next decade agricultural development in Africa will occur against a backdrop of dynamic changes in global, regional and national economies, driven by rapid globalization, increasing demand for strategic resources, instabilities affecting agro-food and energy systems and, not the least, by the growing population.
Can we ensure that the food sold in our supermarkets is delivered through a sustainable supply chain? This is not an easy question to answer, but consumers who want to be responsible face it on a daily basis. Certification schemes are one way of dealing with this issue.
According to FAO’s data about one third of all edible food that we produce is lost or wasted. Food waste is a fundamental moral dilemma because in the world with a growing population and 800 million of chronically food insecure people, it is an inexcusable to waste food and resources.