This blogpost is written by SLU students Emma Bergeling, Hanna Smidvik, Emil Planting Mollaoglu and Felicia Olsson. It was first published by SIANI. As a result of the corona pandemic, the embedded practices of international travel in academia drastically changed. It suddenly became customary to replace business trips with digital alternatives whenever possible. Four students at… Continue reading What the pandemic taught us about the future of academic exchange
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Antibiotics – a tragedy of the commons
This article was written by Susanna Sternberg Lewerin, Professor in Epizootiology & Disease Control at the Department do Biomedical Sciences & Veterinary public Health, SLU. Today is the Antibiotic Awareness Day. It is a day to be grateful for these important medicines, and to consider how to best preserve them for the future. Antibiotics, drugs… Continue reading Antibiotics – a tragedy of the commons
For the love of the spud in spite of its beauty spots
This article was written by Erik Alexandersson, Researcher at the Department of Plant Protection Biology, SLU. Today, 26 October, is the offical potato day here in Sweden and a good opportunity to look closer at this quite nutritional crop. The potato is grown and eaten all over the world and production is on the rise in… Continue reading For the love of the spud in spite of its beauty spots
Smallholder farmers in Kenya know how to meet climate challenges, but lack the means to do it
This article was written and first published by SIANI in collaboration with PhD Ylva Nyberg, Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU. The findings and conclusions in this blog post are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of SLU. Many smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are caught up in a negative… Continue reading Smallholder farmers in Kenya know how to meet climate challenges, but lack the means to do it