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Today we visited several sustainable entrepreneurships in the Swedish agricultural sector! We started in the morning by bus and visited at first Johan Widing and its eco farm Bokeslundsgården. The first thing we got to see were his free-range pigs and poultry. He is working with landraces and is also keeping bees. In recent years,… Continue reading Excursion!

Today we visited the botanical garden in Lund.The garden is for free and you can explore a lot of different things. The large greenhouse alone consists of more than six different departments with different climatic conditions.In one compartment there were even small partridge-like birds. In summer time, a small cafe will be opened there, too.We… Continue reading Botanical Garden Lund

Did we ever wrote about the stones on campus which are always (almost every day) repainted in different colours? The reason might sounds a little bit strange: until the 17th century Skåne (southernmost province of Sweden – so where we are) belonged to Denmark. During the Second Nordic War, Denmark declared in June 1657 war… Continue reading Skåne, Sweden, Denmark …

Hej hej, today we had our first written exam during the Master´s program here at SLU.As I told you before, our current course “Environmental Economics and Management” is dividid into two parts: economics and management. We had 5 hours time today to answer 33 questions about economics. It was definitely feasible!For next week we are… Continue reading Our first written exam

Hej,so today I want to talk a bit about the involvement of SLU in international projects, especially about one with Agcelerate. The multi-stakeholder partnership initiative Agcelerate was founded in 2017 by a small group of researchers, academics and social entrepreneurs. Agcelerate focus on linking academics research in agriculture with practice. At the core of Agcelerate… Continue reading Africa´s Agriculture & entrepreneurship

Hej, since one week now we have a new course, called “Environmental economics and management”. This course is organised by two female PhD students who are sharing the lectures: one is talking about the economic part and the other one is responsible for the management part with which we will deal later on in the… Continue reading Environmental economics and management

Today we went with some friends for a talk about climate change, local innovation and the Global Goals to Malmö. It was an free event, organised by Malmö United Nations Association. The focus was on local innovators and entrepreneurs who have creative ideas for a more sustainable world. We will present you the small heroes… Continue reading Climate change, local innovation and the Global Goals

Today we started at campus a visit to the waste company SYSAV in Malmö. When we arrived, we got a tour in the bus through the area. It was impressive how large the industrial area is. Afterwards, we had a lecture from one guy of the company inside the building with tea & coffee. He… Continue reading South Scania Waste Company

Hej hej, we already wrote about the “Agroecology day” but now it gets more serious.  😉The “Agroecology day” is a recurring annual event which exists quite a long time now (7 or 8 years). It is organised by creative students and in 2019 it will be our task to arrange this day. We already had… Continue reading Agroecology day 2019

Hej hej, at the moment most of us are at home and everyone is enjoying Christmas with friends & family. Nevertheless, there are some small tasks to do. Ludwig finished his group work and his individual paper before Christmas, I have to hand in a draft of my individual paper on the 4th of January. But… Continue reading Christmas break