Trade and innovation

A presentation and demonstration of the Ending Rural Hunger project, an interactive online tool which helps collect, sort and visualise data about food and nutrition security, based on three...

A review of the cooperation between SLU Global and SIANI 2015, conferences that were arranged/attended, and a call for increased multi-stakeholder dialogue.

An overview of SIANI's activities and seminars during 2015, website statistics and opinions gathered from last years' meeting.

The goal of the work was a deepened knowledge among different stakeholders in Sweden and globally about the need for a transition of the agriculture sector to an approach based on ecosystem...

FAO released the report The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2015–16 (SOCO) in December which aims to decrease polarization of views around how trade policies in the agricultural sector affect national polices on food security and development.

On September 25-27, 2015, the United Nations is holding a summit at which the Sustainable Development Goals and their associated targets for the next fifteen years are to be adopted. The Goals are...

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

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.

Presented by John McDermot, IFPRI, at Agri4D 2015.