Policy briefs

Here we present a selection of policy briefs produced at SLU or through our different partnerships.

• Healthy and fertile livestock for livelihoods, food security and reduced climate impact SLU Global 2024
  
  
• Seven reasons to invest in agroforestry for post-war reconstruction and reform effects in Ukraine Agroforestry Network 2024
  
  
• Leveraging agroforestry for bioenergy security in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia Agroforestry Network 2024

• Local democracy and the legitimization of climate action in rural municipalities in Sweden, Chile and the US
  Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, 2022
  
  
• Agroforestry and youth – possibilities and barriers Agroforestry Network 2022
  
  
• Promoting medically, rational and responsible use of antimicrobials CGIAR and SLU 2021
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Factors enabling sustainable goat production in Zambia (SIANI policy brief)
  
  
• Inland fisheries in a development context (SLU Global policy brief)

• Agroforestry, food security and nutrition (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• The Promise of Payday: Exploring the role of state cash transfers in post-apartheid rural South Africa (EBA development dissertation brief)
  
  

• Agroforestry and water for resilient landscapes (Agroforestry Network policy brief)

• Taking into account regional agricultural conditions in policy reforms – the case of Tanzania (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Agroforestry value chains and market systems (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Botanicals and plant resistance inducers: Potential alternatives to pesticides in Africa (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Agroforestry, biodiversity and ecosystem services – Creating a resilient and sustainable future by farming with trees (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Social entrepreneurship and innovation for transformative change – Empirical studies of sanitation innovation (EBA development dissertation brief)
  
  
• Reaching sustainable intensification in Kenya by involving female smallholders (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Marine and coastal fisheries in a development context (SLU Global policy brief)
  
  
• Sustainable intensification and food security (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• How can an agricultural investment that never happened affect people living in poverty? (EBA development dissertation brief)
  
  
• Agroforestry for adaptation and mitigation to climate change (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Becoming an agroecologist – fostering social learning and responsible action for sustainable food systems (SIANI policy brief)
  
  
• Commercial Shrimp-farming in South-west Bangladesh: Challenges and opportunities for policy interventions (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Migration and Agroforestry (Agroforestry Network policy brief)
  
  
• Building resilience and disaster risk reduction among pastoralist communities (SIANI policy brief)
  
  
• Improving crop productivity and mitigating climate change by building up carbon stocks in soils of East Africa (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Slaughter hygiene and meat safety in Uganda (AgriFoSe2030 policy brief)
  
  
• Antimicrobial Use in Livestock in Low-Income Countries (SIANI policy brief)

For more policy briefs produced within the AgriFoSe2030 and SIANI programmes, please visit the AgriFoSe2030 and SIANI websites.