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.
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.