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Systemic Practice and Action Research have made a fresh appearance in relation to the renewed focus on food security and land use globally. This has been referred to as the second wave of systems thinking in international agricultural research, which acknowledges farming systems thinking and participatory research of the 1980s as the first wave.
On August 30, 2015 Jose Graziano da Silva, FAO Director General together with Elizabeth Backteman, the Swedish State Secretary for Rural Affairs visited the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU in Uppsala. The focus of the visit was to exchange knowledge about ways to reduce the use of antibiotics in global livestock and aquaculture production.
Water is required for all stages of food production - from growing to preparation, and it is no surprise that 70% of all fresh water withdrawals are used for agricultural purposes. Yet water and agriculture actions in most of the regions often operate with little or no coordination.
The Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI) Expert Group on Higher Education for Sustainable Agriculture (HESA) in Southeast Asia has recently been very active with various national meetings in the Philippines (22-23 July), Thailand (27-28 July) and Lao PDR (4 August). These activities were possible with funding from the Swedish Intern
The 2015 World Water Week will be held under the theme “Water for Development ‘’ during August 23th – 28th in Stockholm.
This article is based on the report “Towards a comprehensive Strategic Framework to Upscale and Out-scale Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EbA) driven agriculture in Africa” released ahead of the 2nd Africa EbA for Food Security Conference which will be hosted by the UNEP in Nairobi during 30-31 of July, 2015.
En tredjedel av all mat som produceras slängs, samtidigt går var åttonde människa till sängs hungrig. Detta är inte rimligt och innebär ett enormt resursslöseri inte minst av våra vattenresurser. För att illustrera matsvinnsproblematiken så arrangerade SWH tillsammans med SIANI ett frukostseminarium där bananens väg från jord till bord beskrevs.
SLU has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the CGIAR research programme Livestock and Fish.
One-third of all edible food produced is lost or wasted each year. The UN’s proposed Sustainable Development Goal 12 aims at a 50% reduction in food waste per capita at the retail and consumer...