Anna Tengberg, PhD

Anna Tengberg, PhD

Senior Advisor

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Anna is Senior Advisor at SIWI and adjunct professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). Her works focuses on the thematic area Water for Resilient Landscapes and she is also involved in SIWI’s ongoing programme in Ethiopia on Strengthening Water and Landscape Governance.

 

She holds a PhD in Physical Geography from Gothenburg University. She has lived and conducted fieldwork and research in many different parts of the world and published papers on various aspects of natural resources management and assessment.

 

Anna was a UN employee for more than a decade between 1999-2010, first with UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi and later with the UNDP Regional Centre for Asia-Pacific where she was responsible for the sustainable land management and integrated ecosystem management portfolios at global level.

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Explainers and briefs · 04 Apr 2026

SIWI Insight Brief: 43rd UN-Water Meeting, Rome

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Reports and papers · 16 Dec 2025

The Ethiopian Juba-Shebelle Water Cooperation: The Roles of IOS Enabled Knowledge, Information and Data Supply Chain Collaboration

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Reports and papers · 22 Jan 2025

Unlocking the potential of rainfed agriculture

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Guidance, methods and frameworks · 26 Oct 2021

Participatory land use planning: Training manual

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Guidance, methods and frameworks · 01 Apr 2021

Landscape restoration training manual

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Reports and papers · 22 Dec 2019

World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) – External Evaluation Report 2019

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Reports and papers · 13 Apr 2018

Lokal kunskap och lokalt deltagande

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Feature · 12 Aug 2026

What if we’ve been governing only half of the water cycle?

Water governance has traditionally focused on rivers, lakes and groundwater. But science is revealing a broader picture. Anna Tengberg explores why governing the full hydrological cycle is becoming essential for resilience, climate adaptation, water security and sustainable development.

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Feature · 05 Jan 2026

SIWI Reflections 2025: Shaping SIWI’s future through strategy, collaboration, and renewal

In SIWI Reflections 2025, Anna Tengberg, PhD and James Leten reflect on strategy, collaboration, and preparing SIWI for a new way of working in 2026.

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News · 26 May 2025

Contributing to Sweden’s Climate Resilience: SIWI’s Role in the National Vulnerability Assessment

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Feature · 17 May 2024

FLR: Restoring degraded mosaic landscapes to support ecosystem services

A recent article in Science (Parr et al. 2024) has ignited a debate among restoration researchers and practitioners. The article raised concerns about forest landscape restoration (FLR) initiatives, particularly the risk of misdirected tree planting in non-forest ecosystems, such as savannas and grasslands.

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News · 01 Dec 2020

Water scarcity threatens food security for billions

In a new report, the UN warns that billions of people risk hunger caused by escalating water scarcity. But the situation is not hopeless, according to Professor Anna Tengberg from SIWI who contributed to the report. Here she talks about what the world must do to stave off the threat.

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