Seminars and workshops

Swedish Interdisciplinary research network on livelihood and natural resource governance

Seminar and panel discussion in Stockholm 19 May
'The Perils of Peak Phosphorous: Geopolitics, Food Security, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights: Implications for Western Sahara'. 14.00-17.00 hrs in Bååtska Rummet, Stockholm.
The seminar is organized jointly by Stockholm Environment Institute, Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, the Nordic Africa Institute, Riksdagens tvärpolitiska nätverk för Västsahara, International Commission of Jurists and VästsaharaAktionen.
Read the inviation (pdf).

“Migration and livelihoods in semi-urban towns in Ethiopia”, Gunilla Bjerén and Atakilte Beyene, April.
Gothenburg network seminar, May.
Land, natural resource management and rights, Joint SERN and SIANI Seminar, May.
Who influences the policy process: Land and natural resource management cases from Sweden and Africa, June.
Governance and bio-fuel in Africa, September.
Development assistance in the changing global setting? October.
Land governance and Livelihoods in East and Southern Africa, November.

Workshop 19 May, 2009 - Transformation of an African Town, in Uppsala Sweden. Tuesday 19 May from 13.00-17.00 there will be a workshop at the Nordic Africa Institute titled Transformation of an African Town – Shesemene, Ethiopia. The workshop is organized jointly by the Nordic Africa Institute (research cluster on agrarian change) and the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research Network on Livelihoods and Natural Resource Governance. Read the invitation here (pdf).
Read more about the workshop (pdf)

Workshop on 4 December 2008 in Uppsala, Sweden: Workshop on 'Biofuels and Smallholders in Africa'.
Conference on 28-29 February 2008 in Oslo, Norge: ‘African Agriculture and the World Development Report 2008 Agriculture for Development. Lessons and future directions’.
Report from the conference.
Workshop on 15 March 2007 in Uppsala, Sweden.
Download workshop programme (pdf)
Workshop on 1-4 November 2006 in Harare, Zimbabwe: ‘Livelihood Diversification, Natural Resource Governance and Environmental Sustainability in East and Southern Africa’.
Download report from the Harare workshop (pdf)
Seminar on 24 August 2006
(no report available)
Seminar on 13 June 2006 in Uppsala, Sweden: Free trade - a dead end for developing countries.