Each year, more than 200 million people suffer from malaria around the world and every two minutes, a child dies from the disease. Globally, an estimated 3.4 billion people in 92 countries are at risk of being infected with malaria and developing disease. In conjunction to World Malaria Day, marked each year on 25 April,… Continue reading Flowering plants for the fight against malaria
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Tanzanian-Swedish collaboration at the World Urban Forum 2020
By: Edson Sanga, Happiness Mlula, Lazaro Mngumi, Maglan Sang’enoi and Said Nuhu. PhD candidates at SLU enrolled in the Capacity Building Research Training Partnership with Ardhi University in Tanzania. On 8-14 February, the tenth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF 10) was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). This year SLU arranged… Continue reading Tanzanian-Swedish collaboration at the World Urban Forum 2020
Chefs spill the beans, but where are the farmers? Reflections from the EAT Forum 2019 in Stockholm
By: Aniek Hebinck, Communicator and Researcher at SLU Global & Environmental Change Institute. Aniek holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability Science from the Stockholm Resilience Centre and wrote her thesis on Shaping Sustainable Food Systems. The EAT Forum carnival is back in town and it’s as ambitious as ever! This year’s edition is themed ‘The Science… Continue reading Chefs spill the beans, but where are the farmers? Reflections from the EAT Forum 2019 in Stockholm
Who pays the price for cheap seafood?
By: Dr. Alin Kadfak, Gothenburg University Thanks to globalisation we can enjoy a great variety of seafood from all over the world at a fairly affordable price. But with less fish in the sea to catch, someone has to pay for the misdeeds of unsustainable fishing. As much as one fifth of fish caught worldwide is… Continue reading Who pays the price for cheap seafood?
Report from the SIANI Annual Meeting 2019
By: Dr. Alin Kadfak, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU Did you know that about half of migrants are women? And more migrants migrate within developing countries than crossing North-South borders? Migration does not refer only border crossing, but moving from rural to urban as well as rural to rural within the same country. There… Continue reading Report from the SIANI Annual Meeting 2019