Youth
There was a large push at the SIANI Annual meeting in January 2015 for SIANI to involve more youth in the discussion around agricultural development, food security and nutrition. This call was heard and led to the launch of SIANI Youth – an initiative dedicated to creation and production of agriculture and food security related communication for the youngest members of the SIANI network.
Florence Opondo, Laikipia University, presenting at the SIANI Members Meeting - Nairobi 2018
Last week, members from the SIANI team participated at the Ultuna Market Day hosted by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala. The Ultuna Market Day is a job market fair...
Presentation by Rachael Mwikali, female activist, at the SIANI Members Meeting in Nairobi, November 14th 2018
Presentation by Stephen Vundi Mungula, ICRAF, at the SIANI Members Meeting in Nairobi, November 14th 2018
Presentation by Florence Opondo, Laikipia University, at the SIANI Members Meeting in Nairobi, November 14th 2018
Is agriculture an attractive career choice for the youth of today? What opportunities and constraints do young people see in agriculture? A new research project in Burkina Faso seeks to find this out.
As more and more people move from the countryside to the cities, our knowledge of what farm life is and what a farm produces is gradually getting lost. For many modern children, the connection...
In June 2018, AgriFoSe2030 organized a writeshop in Gothenburg to gather ideas from young African researchers and produce a book with success stories from research about multifunctional...
Ari.Farm is an app that you can use to invest in camel milk in Somalia. What is it exactly about and how does it work? SIANI took some time to speak to Jimale Mohamed, the creator of Ari.Farm.
During the 7-8th of June 2018, young researchers met at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala to discuss challenges related to rural development. A special focus was...