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Research and doctoral education stand for 70 per cent of SLU's turnover. Sound basic research is combined with more practical studies to solve concrete problems. The researchers often work interdisciplinarily.

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24 May 2017 Nailing of thesis: The connoisseur method Helena Mellqvist nailed her thesis "The connoisseur method – A study on long-term participation i...
24 May 2017 Improving water use efficiency in small-scale maize production systems Maize yields in sub-Saharan Africa have been at the lower end of the global range for decades. A...
22 May 2017 Use of livestock resources for food security in the light of climate change Livestock are essential for food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. They serve multipl...
19 May 2017 SLU at the UN Ocean Conference SLU will participate when the world is gathering around the work of saving the world's ocean and...
19 May 2017 Tiny bite marks reveal a global pattern in predation It is well known that the tropics have many more species than the poles. But do the interactions...

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