1. WEEKLY TASK Global water and food issues
WAT-E1020; Autumn 2016

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

3. Schedule for today
Wrap up the week so far Introduction to Weekly task SWOT analysis Facilitated group work Lunch Work in groups

4. Wrap up Tue-Thu 5 minutes 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

5. 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
 Based on our research:

6. SGT + W&D courses

7. 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.

8. SWOT analysis

9. 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

10. 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?

11. 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

12. 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:
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

13. 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.

14. Measures Food loss reduction Rainwater harvesting Urban farming
Artificial meat
Insects as resource-efficient protein source
GMO crops
Focus area: Sub-Saharan Africa

15. Contact information: