economy 2020.03.27 Senior Advisor: Coronavirus pandemic will not trigger a food crisis The coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to provoke a food crisis according to a food economics expert at the University of Copenhagen. Food supply and demand have hardly changed. And globally, food stockpiles are topped up…
Sustainable soy 2020.02.11 New report: The vast majority of Danish soya imports threaten rainforests A new report from the University of Copenhagen demonstrates that conventionally grown soya accounts for 71% of Danish soya imports. This means that the vast majority of Danish soya imports come from South America, where…
global development 2020.01.29 Historical inequalities and uncertain land tenure systems create problems in protected areas of Patagonia Systematic repression through harassment, violence and bureaucracy. This is how families experience everyday life in the hands of a powerful national park in the Argentine region of Patagonia. One hundred years ago, the…
Award 2019.11.26 Board game about sustainability designed by a research project wins award Savanna Life was designed by an interdisciplinary team working with a game designer to facilitate involvement and discussion about natural resource management and sustainable futures in the cross-boundary Greater…
Dissemination Award 2019: 2019.11.22 Star communicator: "A Facebook thread spawned one of my best research articles" Somewhat unconventionally, the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2019 goes to a researcher with a sizeable social media footprint. Thousands of LinkedIn and Twitter followers provide Professor Marcel Bogers with access to…
Meat 2019.11.19 8 out of 10 Danes not ready to do completely without meat on the plate A new University of Copenhagen study reports that the vast majority of Danes prefer a combination of meat and vegetables on their plates and that few are ready to do away with the meat portion. The research results…
2019.09.12 Video: How to make the African food sector more profitable Ghanaian shea butter, Kenyan honey and Tanzanian Aloe Vera are among the products, which local farmers can improve their profit from, according to the recently finished UCPH project VALOR.
Governance 2019.07.01 Beyond Anarchy: Property, Precarity and Land Governance in Urban Congo Land is a key resource and its attribution is of vital economic and political concern across societal groups in urban eastern Congo. In a recent Congo Research Brief, researchers analyse the nexus between property…
New study 2019.05.06 Defaunation – overlooked in international forest governance - jeopardises forest carbon storage and climate change mitigation efforts New study finds that the role of fauna in forest ecology and unsustainable hunting have important consequences that are left out in contemporary forest governance discussions, including REDD+. Forest fauna perform many…
Consumer Behaviour 2019.04.29 Paying consumers to increase their consumption can reduce the cost of integrating wind and solar electricity production into the grid Increased reliance on solar and wind power has changed the approach to managing peak demand. The column details the results of a Danish experiment designed to flatten demand in which customers were randomly assigned to…