Resources: Climate change

Scientific articles can be found here.

Reports and more

 Just Transitions. Gender and Power in India's Climate Policies
Professor Seema Arora-Jonsson, SLU, is the co-editor and she   has also co-authored a couple of the book chapters. Routledge 2023.

Rainfed systems intensification and scaling of water and soil management
Four case studies of development in family farming
Editors: Jennie Barron & Anna Tengberg. SLU 2023

Grazing with trees. A silvopastoral approach to managing and restoring drylands SLU researcher Aida Bargues Tobella has co-authored the report.
FAO 2022

A guide to forest–water management
SLU researcher Aida Bargues Tobella has co-authored the report.
FAO, USDA, IUFRO 2021

Water productivity, the yield gap, and nutrition. The case of Ethiopia
By Jan Lundqvist, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), Louise Malmquist, SLU, Paulo Dias, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Jennie Barron, SLU, Mekonnen B. Wakeyo, Policy Studies Institute (PSI), Ethiopia An FAO Land and Water Discussion Paper 2021

Harnessing nature-based solutions for smallholder plant health in a changing climate.  SLU Global, 2021.

Applying three dimensions of sustainability for a better food system and better nutrition. Knowledge, cooperation and innovation.
By the Swedish FAO Committee, February 2021.
Read a news article about the report.

Overcoming water challenges in agriculture
Latest isssue of the State of Food and Agriculture 2020, by FAO.
With contributions by SLU researcher Jennie Barron.
Read a news article about the report here.

Evaluation of SLU-Vietnam collaborations 1977-2018
SLU Global 2020.

Towards 2030 – sustainability as the business case for agriculture and forestry  
By the Swedish FAO-Committee. 2019
Read the news article about the publication here.

Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People
A new comprehensive assessment of potential and  anticipated impacts of efforts towards attaining the    different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on forests and forest-related livelihoods and development. Seema Arora-Jonsson, professor in Rural Development at  SLU, has contributed to the chapter on SDG 5: Gender Equality and to the chapter on SDG 16: Peace, justice and
strong institutions.

Acheiving the Global Goals through agroforestry
By Agroforestry Network. 2018

Sustainable Food and Agriculture: An Integrated  Approach 
By the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United  Nations. 2018
Read a news article about the book here. 

Mountain ecosystem services and climate change: A global overview of potential threats and strategies for adaptation 
Edited by Egan & Price. UNESCO Publishing. 2017

Policy briefs

• Local democracy and the legitimization of clmate action in rural municipalities in Sweden, Chile and the US
  Swedish Interantional Centre for Local Democracy, 2022
  
  
• Agroforestry and youth – possibilities and barriers Agroforestry Network 2022
  
  
• Water for Food Systems and Nutrition (UN Food System Summit brief)
  
  
• Nutrition and the Perfect Storm of Water (SIWI policy brief)
  
  
• Healthy harvests in a changing climate (SLU Global policy brief)
  
  
• Agroforestry and water for resilient landscapes (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Commercial Shrimp-farming in South-west Bangladesh: Challenges and opportunities for policy interventions (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Agroforestry, biodiversity and ecosystem services – Creating a resilient and sustainable future by farming with trees (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Building resilience and disaster risk reduction among pastoralist communities (SIANI policy brief)
  
  
• Agroforestry for adaptation and mitigation to climate change (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Improving crop productivity and mitigating climate change by building up carbon stocks in soils of East Africa (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Migration and Agroforestry (Agroforestry Network policy brief)