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17 Mar 2026
LUCSUS at Sustainability Week 2026
LUCSUS is for the tenth time taking part in Lund Sustainability Week! For us as a centre, the week serves as an important platform to engage with the public and communicate our res...
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10 Mar 2026
Small-holder farmers reap few and uneven gains from Ghana's agricultural development policies
A new PhD thesis by Bernard Ekumah examines why agricultural development in Ghana continues to generate uneven and contradictory outcomes, especially for smallholder farmers. It ar...
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13 Feb 2026
What Ugandan Farmers Teach Us About Politics Under Repression
A new study on agricultural development in Uganda suggests that it is possible to influence policy without alienating the country's notoriously volatile authorities. The findings c...
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13 Jan 2026
How workers are experiencing efforts to decarbonise the steel industry in Sweden
A novel research report maps how workers are experiencing efforts to decarbonise the steel industry in Sweden. It identifies how people’s expectation of change is marked by previou...
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15 Dec 2025
Zimbabwe's women farmers fighting patriarchal land laws and reshaping sustainable agriculture
Women make up 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's agricultural labour but have little influence over farmlands and resources. Recent research shows that women farmers are uniting to challeng...
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9 Dec 2025
ALIGN: Embedding Inner Student-Centered Exploration and Development in Higher Education
Professor Christine Wamsler is passionate about integrating inner development into academic curricula and institutional structures in order to support students cultivate the inner ...
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2 Dec 2025
How climate change is affecting the lives of farm workers: the case of Turkey and Colombia
Migrant farm workers are some of the most vulnerable people within the global agricultural system. Now climate change is increasingly affecting their health and wellbeing, as well ...
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18 Nov 2025
LUCSUS Director and Deputy Director reflect on Lund University's top ranking in Sustainability
Director Barry Ness and Deputy Director Torsten Krause are deeply honoured and proud of Lund University’s remarkable achievement of securing the top position in the QS World Univer...
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18 Nov 2025
What is next for CCS technologies: a comparative study of Norway and Brazil's climate mitigation strategies
Carbon Capture and Storage, CCS, technologies have been identified as key to reduce harmful emissions and to mitigate the effects of climate change. A new study, focusing on leadin...
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10 Nov 2025
Presenting immobility as a climate adaptation strategy at COP30
Professor Emily Boyd will present immobility as a climate adaptation strategy at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil. “The majority of people want...
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10 Nov 2025
LUCSUS at COP30 in Belém, Brazil
LUCSUS researchers are participating in this year’s United Nations Climate Change conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil.
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4 Nov 2025
Ahead of COP30: “The Amazon should be out of question for extractivism; it is too valuable in terms of its biocultural diversity”
Researcher and Associate Professor Torsten Krause has spent the last 16 years doing research with a focus on the Colombian and Ecuadorian Amazon region: investigating forest govern...
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7 Oct 2025
The double transition of energy in Nepal
Renewable and affordable energy is key for societal and economic growth, and for achieving national and global climate goals. Research from LUCSUS is mapping the energy transition ...
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3 Oct 2025
LUCSUS researchers included in the Stanford–Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking 2025
LUCSUS researchers continue to feature in the Stanford–Elsevier World’s Top Scientist Ranking! Professor Christine Wamsler is ranked 1st in Sweden, and the 6th most influential sch...
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2 Oct 2025
Coastal development planning matters more for 21st century flood risk than climate change
How regional, local and national governments decide to develop coastal regions affects 21st century flood exposure more than climate threats according to a new study, focusing on C...
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29 Sep 2025
LUCSUS Researchers Bring Food Futures into Focus at Upcoming Conference
With panels, tastings, workshops, and exhibitions, LUCSUS researchers will contribute to the Agroecology Forum 2025 across multiple formats. The conference takes place in Malmö, Sw...
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19 Sep 2025
PhD student Tilde Krusberg is using creative future visioning methods to transition the Swedish food system to fossil-free energy
PhD student Tilde Krusberg is using creative future visioning methods to transition the Swedish food system to fossil-free energy as part of the AgroDrive project. She is motivated...
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15 Sep 2025
New Study Reveals the Key Drivers of Climate Policy Support
Why do some people strongly back climate action while others do not? A new international study by LUCSUS researcher Felix Schulz and Christian Bretter, University of Queensland, fi...
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18 Aug 2025
From Ideas to Action: Shaping Aquathermal Futures
What happens when scientists, municipal actors, and private sector stakeholders from six European countries come together to question the future of aquathermal energy? At LUCSUS, w...
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26 Jun 2025
The documentary, The Beans Of/For Change, shines light on challenges and opportunities around specialty coffee in Colombia
A new mini LUCSUS documentary, The Beans Of/For Change, introduces the challenges and opportunities around specialty coffee in Colombia. It is based on research results from field ...