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SIANI 2015: A look back

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Stockholm 19th Jan, 2016

This time last year…...

• 68 people helped

set the network

some targets for

2015.

• SDGs

• Soils

• Nutrition

• For SIANI

• Food Waste and Losses

1. SIANI produced of a ‘bite-size’ summary of the CFS

report on ‘Food Waste and Production’

2. New Expert Group; Food Waste Prevention for Global

Food Chains (managed by SP Bioscience)

3. Invited to moderate a round table discussion on how

“Social Innovation Reduce can Food Loss and Waste?”

4. World Food Day: Social Protection and Agriculture:

Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty”.

Following up: Coming of the

SDGs

Almedalen

Schyssta kedjor – bananensväg från jord till bord

Moderated by FairtradePanel:• ICA • We Effect,• Politicians (from C and M)

1-2 July

5) Organised a seminar looking at the losses of water along the Banana production chain with SIWI

Stockholm - 24-28 September

6) Organised seminar “Landscape approaches for sustainable development, water and land resource management” - SIWI, SLU Global, SEI, Swedish Water House

World Water Week

Global

Landscapes

Forum

Paris – 6-7 December

7) “How to ensure responsible practices along agricultural supply chains?” A multi-stakeholder dialogue with Focali & Fairtrade

Following up: Soils

• Raise the profile of soil sustainability

1. 2015 was the International Year of Soils.

2. Speaking and blogging from International

Soil Conference 2015 in Thailand

Almedalen

1-2 July

3) “Fifty Shades of Green“ seminar

50 Nyanser av grönt – mot ett grönare Afrika

Participation from:• Vi Skogen• Max Hamburgers• Mellanskog• SLU Global, • GD from Sida and SEI

Odlingsjordarna

hotas - vad gör vi?

KSLA - 10 December

4) World Soil Day Seminar – with Swedish FAO Committee, and KSLA

S.O.S Save Our

Soils

Malmö – 20 May

5) Public event on soils in central Malmö

Panel:• Swedish board of Agriculture • VI Agroforestry• Findus• Region Skåne• Lund University

Following up: Nutrition

1. Focus on new and nutritious crops– Water for Food Security and Nutrition - IWMI,

SIWI, CGIAR, Sida, FAO, Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation.

– Presented at World Forest Congress in linkages between fuel production and nutrition.

– Nutrition has been part of the discussion in two expert group seminars on ‘Urban Agriculture’ and ‘Urban Animals’.

2. Look at gender and nutrition 👎

Blogged on “Animal

borne diseases: a

double trouble for

health and nutrition”

by Kristina Osbjer

3) Look at sustainable and nutritious diets in different cultures

Blogged and

supported the cook

book “In Our

Hands” by Jamila

Haider

Following up: For SIANI

1. Have a focus on Sweden

– Seminars in Malmö, Lund, Umeå, Gothenburg, and

Uppsala.

2. Promote collaboration between Swedish

agencies (PGU) for stronger impact

– SIANI secretariat actively seeks to find synergies with

different sectors to work towards coherence,

understanding and respect for different views on the

same problem.

3) Stimulate youth engagement within the network

CFS42

Rome - 12-15 October

4) Participating in international conferences with the objective of bringing back content and news from the global dialogues into the Swedish context

Agri4D

Conference

Uppsala - 23-24 Sep

5) Bringing forward learning and knowledge generated through the Swedish resource base into the international policy arena.

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Publications

8 Policy Briefs10 Blogs

4 Q&A Interviews

Expert Groups

Agricultural transformation in Low Income Countries under Environmental Change –hosted by SNF

Restorations of Rural Landscapes for Food Security - hosted by SLU Global

Urban Animals balancing good and bad -hosted by SLU Global

Food Security and Energy Access - hosted by SEI

Moving Africa towards a Knowledge based Bio Economy - hosted by SEI

Co-international learning: shortage of food water-vulnerability to ill health, abuse, and exploitation - hosted by the Red Cross High School

International Swedish Agricultural Research Base (ISARB) – hosted by ILRI

Commercialization of the Agriculture Sector in Kenya – hosted by the Agricultural Sector Support Program

Food Waste Prevention for Global Food Chains – hosted by SP Biosciences

Linkages Water Sanitation Food Security and Nutrition – hosted by KTH

Higher Education and Sustainable Agriculture in South-East Asia – Hosted by Chulalongkorn University

Theme

sSustainable Agricultural

Production and Food

Security

Forests, Landscapes

and Food Security

SIANI.se3305 visitors per month

Stats 2015

Members 1460 (+368)

Twitter 2463 (+938)

Facebook 829 (+265)

Linkedin 199 (+74)

Last Year

• SIANI HAS RECEIVED VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD – SO MANY COUNTRIES THAT IN FACT THERE WERE ONLY 4 COUNRTRIES THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE A RECORDED VISIT FROM IN 2014

• Turkmenistan, Mauritania and Western Sahara AND GABON

Did we get Gabon?We got Gabon!

Reaching low-income

countries2013 2014 2015

Thanks for

your attention