In this post we summarize the final report of MVTT’s impact assessment of the Majakka project. The synthesis can be found in Finnish from MVTT’s home page. The assessment was performed by Gaia consulting. For the past five years (2017-2021),…
Majakka is our 5-year project that focuses on co-creating practices, mechanisms and culture to improve doctoral education and water research, aiming to educate top-notch game changers and to strengthen our international research excellence. The project was recently awarded with Aalto…
Since the 1980s, rainfall conditions for agriculture have improved only in scattered areas across the region Story highlights Studies have reported an upward trend in annual rainfall in the Sahel since the 1970s and 1980s, but farmers question whether vegetation…
9.12.2020 Elina Lehikoinen is defending her thesis about Finland’s food security and global food systems on Friday 11th of December 2020. Read the main findings from this blog and tune in on Friday to hear more. The global food…
The year 2020 will remain in history as the year of the COVID19 outbreak. As research on the cure for the virus has increased, so has research on the effects of the pandemic on wellbeing and welfare. One of the areas of interest for researchers and practitioners…
4 September 2020 Vesitalous is a Finnish professional journal which has readership across academic, governance, and public fields. The latest issue, co-edited by our Associate Professor Marko Keskinen, covered wide range of approaches to water security. The journal (in Finnish)…
Our researchers recently published a critical nature on the drivers of the Mekong region droughts. The 2019-20 drought has triggered concerns and highlighted the need for research on the communities, information, and regional cooperation. Our doctoral student Marko Kallio and…
Dandan Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher in Water & Development Research Group – her research concentrates on water footprints and water resources regulation. In this post, she enlightens her experience in water footprint assessment at sectoral scale and her new…
Our colleague Hafsa Munia defended her thesis successfully in February 2020 – what are her key advice for phd students? Is Ph.D. a job or I am still a student? While everyone else is settled in job, I was still thinking…
A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, 1935. George E. Marsh/NOAA This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Authors: Miina Porkka, Stockholm University; Alison Heslin, Columbia University, and Matti Kummu, Aalto…