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Agri4D 2017 Sustainable Poverty Reduction: The market and economics of emerging bioeconomies in Sub Saharan Africa. Antony Chapoto, Research Director at the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research...
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Teaser for coming docudrama about Food Security and Nutrition in Kenya, Venezuela and Sweden made by the Co-intentional learning Expert Group. Teaser editing and sound design by Alexander Nilsen,...
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This is one of the short movies based on the experiences in the past year’s co-intentional learning project in Caracas, Venezuela and Göteborg, Sweden. It was set out as a collective film...
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This is the first, Introductory Part of a series of short movies based on the experiences in the past year’s co-intentional learning project. It was set out as a collective film assignment to...
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Youth
Does this sound like it’s from a sci-fi movie? An empty, underground car park with huge metal cylinder tanks spread throughout. Inside these tanks you can find… lettuce, pak choy, kale, coriander, and even strawberries – in the middle of winter!
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International deforestation curbing policy infrastructure is well developed. It includes the New York Declaration on Forests, the Bonn Challenge, Initiative 20x20, AFR100 and now also the UN Strategic Plan on Forests 2017-2030, just to mention a few of its components. These are all great, but throwing billions at conservation and afforestation won’t work without making agriculture sustainable and zero-deforestation.
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The demand for wood fuel in the developing regions will continue to rise, at least during the upcoming two decades. Wood fuel is here to stay, and it might be that, just like with any bad boy, we will need to figure out the right way of dealing with its trouble making.
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Researchers are still arguing about the definition of bioeconomy. However, it is an exciting concept that stimulates innovation and resource efficiency with a market value in mind. All essential for sustainable development. Clearly, the bioeconomy pathway will require transparent knowledge sharing, cross-sector collaboration and a novel view on academic research.
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The 2018 edition of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA), one of FAO’s annual flagship publications, will focus on migration and the challenges it poses to food security as well as to peace and stability. Today there is growing international attention to the phenomenon of migration, its causes, its effects and the way in which it occurs.