A newly published study highlights the impacts of green water variability on global crop yields Water consumed by farming comes from either rainfall or irrigation. The water from rainfall is…
Right after finishing my master’s thesis, I got the chance to do an internship at Global Water Partnership in Stockholm, Sweden. I have always been fascinated by such organisations, so…
There is development cooperation, and then there is development cooperation in times of crisis. How do these differ in practice? Arto Suominen of the Finnish-Ethiopian Community-Led Accelerated WASH (COWASH)…
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…
Marko Keskinen – 27.1.2021 — The longer Finnish version can be found here. Covid-19 pandemic forced the universities to move to a remote learning mode. While this provides new kinds…
Marko Keskinen – 27.1.2021 — The short summary in English can be found here. Covid-19 -pandemia vauhditti yliopistot ennennäkemättömään digiloikkaan: valtaosa opetuksesta siirtyi viime maaliskuussa humauksessa verkkoon ja tilanne jatkuu samana…
Photo by https://pixabay.com/photos/question-mark-knowledge-question-3255136/ This blog post, written by WDRG doctoral candidate Johannes Piipponen, is all about asking questions. How many questions can you ask, how to ask them, and…
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…
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…
In this text, WDRG doctoral candidate Thomas Banafa writes about combining entrepreneurship and doctoral studies. I started my own consulting company a little over two years ago after six…