1. WEEKLY TASK Global water and food issues
WAT-E1011; Autumn 2017

2. Global week Lectures & discussion Group work on Weekly task
Lecture & hands-on exercise of statistics
Individual studying & workshop

3. Schedule for today
Wrap up of yesterday Motivation for tomorrow Introduction to Weekly task SWOT analysis Facilitated group work Lunch Work in groups

4. Wrap up of yesterday 5 minutes Discuss in pairs/small groups
What is sustainability for you?
Ways towards more sustainable use of resources?
5 minutes

5. SGT + W&D courses
Most of 2courses’ thematic weeks are related to four ‘study paths’ of WAT advanced courses
 Hence, helping you to plan you advanced studies
This week links to ‘water & development’ path
Two SGT-courses
 You can apply to both of them; Studio course has a pretty strict quota
 WAT students don’t need to take ‘State of the World and Development’ course in Period I: this week replaces it
Two water & development courses
 Very different but complementary views on water and development
 Based on our research:

6. SGT + W&D courses

7. WAT-E1030 this week: statistics of population and development
On Thu & Fri you’ll be exploring population and development issues with various statistical tests
To get you inspired of the issue, there is a great TED talk (10 min) about the topic:
l_population_growth

8. Weekly task
Today, you explore the different measures how to ease food crisis in Africa.
Each group gets one measure to assess with using SWOT analysis as a guiding tool.

9. SWOT analysis

10. Guiding questions – internal origin
Strengths and weaknesses
Implementation easy/hard
Costs of the measure low/high
Technology needed exist or not
High / low impact on food security

11. Guiding questions – external origin
Opportunities
What trends do you see / foresee
Is it within the values of people?
Is it in line with SDGs?
Threats
What obstacles might occur
Are there legal issues impacting on implementation?
Would measure have environmental impacts?

12. When using SWOT
Do not be ‘blocked’ by selecting the correct category you enter each identified attribute
Try to list first as many attributes as possible, and then start prioritizing them
After that take a critical view on each and try to find supporting sources/references
At the end, aim to order the attributes in terms of their importance/significance

13. Example from recent research
We used SWOT as analytical framework in our research on frugal innovation in Tanzania (Nanomaji case)
 Published in Sustainability:
Useful framework: well-known + simple and straightforward to use
 Can also include visualisations
But actual analytical value-added bit limited: basically just grouping things in a logical way

14. How to report
Use the template available at MyCourses. Note: SWOT matrix is available there in vector format too, if you want to fill it with e.g. Adobe Illustrator.
Be prepared to briefly present your SWOT on Monday after lunch at 13:15.
DL for task is Monday 18th, 11:00 sharp If delayed, only half of points will be given. Please use the doc-template

15. Future food opportunities – one for each group
Food loss reduction
Rainwater harvesting
Urban farming
Cultured meat
Insects as resource-efficient protein source
GMO crops
Focus area: Sub-Saharan Africa

16. Contact information: