Welcome to SLU's global blog!

This blog is about global development contributing to Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SLU with its mission, to develop knowledge and capacity for sustainable management and use of natural resources has an important role to play in the implementation of Agenda 2030. In this blog you will find posts from students, researchers, teachers and staff at SLU, as well as the occasional guest blogger, all somehow engaged in global development. We hope that you will enjoy the reading and also that you would like to contribute to the blog by writing a post!

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Indigenous farmer-to-farmer learning in Northern Guatemala

In Guatemala, deep inequality hides the realities faced by indigenous peoples. In regions like Alta Verapaz, centuries of exclusion have driven extreme poverty, yet Maya-Q’eqchi’ communities continue to defend their lands and revive resilient, sustainable ways of farming.

Woman sitting in a field.
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From Afghanistan to MSU and GCUA 2030

In this reflection, GCUA 2030 student Latifa Salangi shares her powerful academic and personal journey from Afghanistan to MSU, illustrating how GCUA's Agenda 2030 course has helped her connect the SDGs to lived experience, responsibility, and the realities of inequality, conflict, and resilience.

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Bridging science and practice for goat farmers in Zambia

My veterinary training and subsequent PhD research revealed the vital role goats play in supporting rural livelihoods in Zambia.

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SLU Youth Institute at the World Food Forum

Engaging discussions about some of the most crucial challenges of our time, global leadership, and friends for life. That could summarise the experiences that we, coordinators, and the nominated high school students from SLU Youth Institute had at the World Food Forum in Rome earlier this autumn...

From soil to solidarity

Now it has been one month since Agri4D 2025, and we have had some time to reflect and land in what we learned and how we can continue forward with our new knowledge and networks. SLU's brilliant Master's student Loukas has given their reflection on new perspectives, how to build new knowledge based on old experience and how different opinions can lead to a sustainable future.
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Participants holding seeds in their hands during the reflective process.

Reflect, connect, and express with seeds

"The Agri4D Conference took place this year at SLU. Among the many scientific discussions, I designed and facilitated an alternative workshop—The Journey of Seed, an embodied workshop that explored our relationship with seeds through reflection, creativity, and immersion in the form of art...", Kushal Poudel.
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