WEEKLY TASK
Global water and food issues
WAT-E1020; Autumn 2016
https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=15006
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Global week
Lectures &
discussion
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Lecture &
hands-on
exercise
of statistics
Individual
studying &
workshop
Group work
on Weekly
task
Schedule for today
Wrap up the week so far
Introduction to Weekly task
SWOT analysis
Facilitated group work
Lunch
Work in groups
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Wrap up Tue-Thu
Discuss in pairs/small groups
• What was the most surprising in Tuesday’s
lectures?
• What new – in terms of development and
population dynamics – you learned in statistics
analyses?
5 minutes
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SGT + W&D courses
• Most of 3courses’ 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
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 Based on our research: www.wdrg.fi
SGT + W&D courses
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Weekly task
• Tuesday you explored and discussed various
options on how to ease different kind of
scarcities in Africa
• Today, you explore the measures in more
details. Each group gets one measure to
assess with using SWOT analysis as a guiding
tool.
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SWOT analysis
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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
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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?
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Consider 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
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Example from recent research
• We used SWOT as analytical framework
in our research on frugal innovation in
Tanzania (Nanomaji case)
 Published this month in Sustainability:
http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/9/888
• 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
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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 morning 10 am.
• DL for task is Monday 19th, 9:30am sharp
If delayed, only half of points will be given.
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Measures
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Food loss reduction
Rainwater harvesting
Urban farming
Artificial meat
Insects as resource-efficient protein source
GMO crops
• Focus area: Sub-Saharan Africa
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Contact information:
[email protected]
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