Trade and innovation
The discourse associated with irrigated agriculture often highlights the challenges that are faced with respect to inefficiencies, underperformance and impacts on the hydrological cycle,...
African leaders and their governments must whole-heartedly take on the issue of agricultural development in order to become the force of change which is now needed in order to create a modern African society. This can, however, only be done gradually but still with the final goal in sight.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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!
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.
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.