SIANI Annual Meeting 2016

Workshop
Jan 19, 2016 09:00 AM to Jan 19, 2016 04:30 PM.

Open invitation to the SIANI (Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative) annual meeting. SIANI and Focali have a thematic collaboration around Forests, Landscapes and Food Security, insights from this theme will be presented at the meeting.

Launch of the new Sida-funded program: Agriculture for Food Security 2030

Launch event
Jan 26, 2016 01:30 PM to Jan 26, 2016 04:00 PM.

Save the date 26 January for the launch of the new Sida funded programme AgriFoSe, Agriculture for Food Security 2030 ‐ translating Science into policy and development, at SLU Ultuna Campus in Uppsala. Focali member Madelene Ostwald is leading the work with multifunctional landscapes in the programme.

Apply for PhD position in environmental social science at University of Gothenburg

Jan 04, 2016

The School of Global Studies at University of Gothenburg is advertising a doctoral studentship in environmental social science. Deadline to apply is 1 February 2016.

Meet Focali at the Global Landscape Forum in Paris

Dec 03, 2015

Take the time to meet Focali at the Global Landscape Forum (GLF) in Paris on December 5-6. The network will participate at the forum as part of the thematic collaboration with the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI) around forests, landscapes and food security.

Agricultural commodity consumption and trade responsible for over 40% of tropical deforestation

This new Focali brief is written by Martin Persson, Sabine Henders and Thomas Kastner and is mainly based on their article: Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities. Environmental Research Letters (in Press)

The politics of natural resource enclosure in South Africa and Ecuador

Torsten Krause with colleagues are published in Conservation and Society.

Indonesiens regnskog brinner – vad har orsakat miljökatastrofen och hur kan regnskogen byggas upp igen?

Seminar
Nov 10, 2015 01:15 PM to Nov 10, 2015 03:00 PM.

Information in Swedish about Focali rainforest seminar 10 November.

Workshop on drained organic soils

Workshop
Dec 01, 2015 11:00 AM to Dec 01, 2015 04:00 PM.

This workshop aims to present how emissions from drained organic soils in Sweden (dränerade organogena jordar) can be reduced. The workshop is arranged by Focali researcher Åsa Kasimir and supported by Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate (BECC) and Gothenburg Atmospheric Science Centre (GAC).