Rural Development - SLU

The Division engages in international research, teaching and cooperation that contributes to scholarship, policy and practice in the Global North and South.

[School of Global Studies @globalstudiesGU]

Join us!
PhD position in Social Anthropology: “Stone age heritage as shared landscapes: Mapping concerns, actors and perspectives”
Read more and apply before 24 May, 2024: https://t.co/5mgQcXtb0T

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

@hfischer_slu will give a talk about restoration next week!

[Focali @Focali_se]

📢Welcome to our seminar next week to explore insights & lessons on #forest & #landscape #restoration - from research to policy

📆April 23, 12.15-13.30 @sthlmresilience

#Focalimember @hfischer_slu is the main speaker
Sign up➡️https://t.co/Gz8fbuIpAH

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Short video explaining about Forest commons in Human dominated landscapes by @hfischer_slu @urbanruralSLU

[Focali @Focali_se]

We let #FocaliMember @hfischer_slu @SLU_ruraldev finish our series on multiple #ForestBenefits 🌳
"Let's move beyond #TreePlanting targets and #carbon offsets and empower people that already know how to manage #forests well"
@SIANIAgri
Find out more📽👇
https://t.co/3PNQqBcf8Q

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉 to our successful docent lectures from of our great colleagues!!! @NoemiGonda @BrianKuns Cristián Alarcón Ferrari, such rich story telling and theoretical contributions @urbanruralSLU

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Seminar: Gender Relations in Science @LinleyCKarltun
Linkages of Science and Policy focusing on Societal University Village Initiative, Rwanda @AlfredBizoza & Advancing gender in STEM @jbatamuliza
Welcome if you are around Uppsala, Wed 20 March, 10.30-12.00 at @SLUglobal1

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

@Karolinanders just revisit the field site in Kigali! Urban farming could help turning marshlands into a more productive one! Cannot wait to learn more from her visit!

[Karolin Andersson @Karolinanders]

Exciting to be back in Kigali 🇷🇼 doing some follow up fieldwork with urban farmers and exploring their gendered experiences of and adaptations to ongoing transformations of urban marshlands #PhD #Rwanda #urbanag #genderinag

[Swedish Development Research Network @SweDevNetwork]

🗣️🎙️Are you an early career researcher and want to communicate your research to wider society? Then register for this two-day communication workshop on workshop 29-30 May organised by @SLUglobal1 and @SIANIAgri!
More info here⤵️
https://t.co/c5Tx2XJurn

[Nordic Africa Institute @NordicAfrica]

🌍 Join our team! 🌍

🔍 Position: Research Assistant for a project on debt distress and food security in Africa
📍 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
📅 Deadline: 22 March 2024
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/JSQP7I9b2N
Apply now! #economics #jobsinacademia #African @Assem_Hatab

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Congratulations 🎊🎉 to our brand new star Dr.Arvid Stiernström :) @AroraJonsson
@poskar @SLU_UppdragLand @urbanruralSLU

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

📖 Ten year revisit to a small Indian coal town shows the unfortunate story of a transition toward more coal energy. Consequently aspirations change toward coal industry jobs and agriculture becomes impossible to carry out. @poskar @kuntala2 @SweDevNetwork https://t.co/9hWVsoRqnB

[Swedish Development Research Network @SweDevNetwork]

We are very happy to be part of hosting this year’s Development Research Conference in Lund in October.

🖊️Call for abstracts will open in March. Keep an eye on the conference website for more updates!

https://t.co/WRWIdRWZen

#DevRes2024
#DevelopmentResearch

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

New publication: This study investigates the impact of rural out-migration on collective action in farmer-managed irrigation systems, with a particular focus on household structure and gender relations. @Stephanie_Leder @SIANIAgri @PolEcoNet

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Arvid just nailed it this time! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 on the great thesis: Beyond the minefield... Defence date: 23 Feb 2024, 13.00-15.00 @urbanruralSLU with proud supervisors @AroraJonsson @poskar

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Exciting read by Alessandra Corrado,Lucio Pisacane & Cristián Alarcón on the agrifood-migration nexus:
migration regimes and the politics of labour
shortages in Italy and Sweden. Journal of
Ethnic and Migration Studies. @urbanruralSLU @slupub https://t.co/2ByYOB9Ash

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Another exciting paper from our team - Tracing sustainability meanings in Rosendal: interrogating an unjust urban sustainability discourse and introducing alternative perspectives in Local Environment https://t.co/yHlewmXoXW

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Check out Cristian Alarcon's recent work on Politics of forests and environmental data: Innovation from
above, innovation from below, and
conflicts over land use and property in
Sweden in Italian Review of Agricultural Economics (REA) https://t.co/92i0Fihz5d

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Get ready for our productive year #2024! Kick off with @Stephanie_Leder in Geoforum on Translocal resource governance, social relations and aspirations.
https://t.co/nbbrlAivL0

[SIANI @SIANIAgri]

#CallForExperts⎮@CNFA is seeking applications from qualified candidates in various following areas for an upcoming @USAID-funded #Nigeria Value Chain Activity.

The Activity will improve agricultural & #FoodSystems productivity & commercialization.

https://t.co/Hn8tdf9YWW

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Don't miss this seminar! @Johanna Bergman Lodin from our division will be the main moderator. @SIANIAgri @Sida register required in the link 👇

[SIANI @SIANIAgri]

🇸🇪Minister of Rural Affairs, @FAO, @Sida & @SIANIAgri host a seminar on the status of #GenderEquality in the context of #FoodSecurity.

The seminar aims to discuss challenges, solutions, & explore tools like @UN_CFS VG to reverse the negative trend.
🔗 https://t.co/JSNFPxj0Zc

[Rural Development - SLU @SLU_ruraldev]

Time to explore 'micropolitics of coal'! Coal carries different values and meanings for different actors. This new paper by @poskar @kuntala2 investigates resource politics from the ground up through a materiality lens. @urbanruralSLU @SLUpub
https://t.co/hhK1qcRwdA