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New exciting research projects in sustainable rural development

Published: 29 October 2021

Four researchers at the Division of Rural Development has been granted funding for their projects, all dealing with different aspects of sustainable rural development in the Global North.

Back-to-the-land and the cultivation of a new rurality? Exploring the scope and impact of back-to-the-land migration in rural Sweden

The project analyses the past decades of back-to-the-land migration in Sweden— its underpinning motives, practices and ideals. What relevance do  the back-to-the-land phenomena  have for understanding contemporary rural change and for broader food systems transformations?
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Project leader: Emil Sandström, Researcher at Division of Rural Development, SLU

Migrant Relations and Rural Environments: A neglected dimension of sustainable development

The project analyses how migration is changing rural Sweden and through that, the preconditions for sustainability and social justice. Focusing on social-environmental relations, the project investigates how migration and nature-based integration could contribute to a sustainable rural development in Sweden.
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Project leader: Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor at Division of Rural Development, SLU

Climate Transitions in Contested Forests: Justice and Governance in Digital Times

The project puts the people in focus and investigates how a just and sustainable future forest is possible, in places where the conflicts are both complex and intractable. It does so by studying three cases that highlight different regional and biophysical conditions and forest contestations in relation to climate transitions: nature conservation, reindeer husbandry, mining and wind-power, and the question of who is to be included in the decision-making.
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Project leader: Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor at Division of Rural Development, SLU

AFTER--Agri-Food Transformation for Equitable Resilience: Towards social, economic and environmental sustainability in Spain’s almond sector

The project studies how food system actors, institutions and policies, can bring about equitable food system transformation. The project examines the almond sector in Spain—rapidly changing due to the global increase in demand for nuts by consumers seeking healthy and sustainable food.
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Project leader: Nathan Clay, Researcher at Division of Rural Development, SLU

Civil society, collaborative governance platforms and local climate change policy

The project investigates how climate focused local collaborative governance platform influence roles and functions of civil society organisations with a climate agenda - what practices in methods, approaches and strategies for collaborative work, as well as visions for future new ways of working, can be identified among the participating organisations?
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Project leader: Patrik Cras, Researcher at Division of Rural Development, SLU


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