Johan Rockström is Professor in natural resources management at Stockholm University and executive director of Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Rockström has over twelve years of research and development work in developing countries, with more than 40 scientific publications in areas of water resource management, agricultural development, environmental management, systems research and resilience research.

Rockström has served as regional advisor to the Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA) of Sida, Sweden’s development agency. He has contributed to the management and strategic planning of WaterNet, a regional capacity building programme on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in Southern Africa, as well as 40 higher-learning and research institutions in 12 countries.

Research activities sub-Saharan Africa
He is coordinator of several national and regional research and development projects linked to the Global Water Partnership, the Global Dialogue on Water for Food and Environmental Security, and the Resilience Alliance.

He serves on the Steering Committee of the Comprehensive Assessment on Water Management in Agriculture, and the African Conservation Tillage Network. He has carried out research activities on agricultural water management and watershed management in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Publications

• Opportunities to increase water productivity in agriculture with special reference to Africa and South Asia (2009)

• Green & Blue Water in the Global Water System (2009)

• Greening the Global Water System (2009)

• Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change (2009)

• Global potential to increase crop production through vapour shift and water harvesting (2009)

• A Copenhagen Prognosis: towards a safe climate future (2009)

• Present and future water requirements for feeding humanity (2009)

• Turbulent times (2009)

• Investigating the water balance of on-farm techniques for improved crop productivity in rainfed systems: A case study of Makanya catchment, Tanzania (2009)

• Conservation farming strategies in East and Southern Africa: Yields and rain water productivity from on-farm action research (2009)

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Projects

• Sustainable Recovery and Resilience Building in the Tsunami Affected Region

  
  

• Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture