Department of Crop Production Ecology
Our Forage course will give you important knowledge for future agriculture
Are you interested in future agriculture and food? Then you really should attend SLU's course about forage. Ley (temporary grasslands) is the most commonly cultivated crop in Sweden, and it is also
Seminar: Nitrogen accumulation, recycling, and uptake: a framework for optimizing soil carbon storage and nutrient use efficiency in agroecosystems
lisa.beste@slu.se Please be welcome to the first Crop Production Ecology seminar after summer. We have Professor Stuart Grandy from New Hampshire visiting us. Stuart Grandy, professor at the
A letter from Alice, who revisited SLU as a seasoned researcher this summer
This summer, Alice Turinawe from Uganda visited colleagues in the SLU projects Drylands Transformation and Restore4More. She also gave a seminar on agricultural advisory services and sustainable land
Diss Sandra Makaita Madamombe
Climate-smart agriculture options on coarse-textured soils for improved food security in semi-arid areas charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Sandra Makaita Madamombe defends her thesis "Climate-smart
A visit to our field trials outside Uppsala
Did you see a group of 20 people walking around in the fields outside Uppsala last Tuesday? It was us, people from the Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU, taking the opportunity to look at
Exploring Land Restoration: My Journey with Restore4More
Caroline Bark, MSc student from the “Sociotechnical Systems Engineering” program at Uppsala University, has completed her MSc thesis in collaboration with SLU-led projects Restore4More and Drylands
Learning from tradition: Can crop diversity close the organic yield gap?
A team of early-career researchers from SLU’s Department of Crop Production Ecology has secured funding from Ekhagastiftelsen to explore the ecological and nutritional benefits of increasing genetic
Newly launched Restore4More project seeks to contribute knowledge to guide and scale rangeland restoration in East Africa
The newly launched Restore4More project seeks to contribute knowledge to guide and scale rangeland restoration in East Africa. ”Water and transhumance are often overlooked in restoration research
Constraints and opportunities for organic crop production in areas of high agricultural productivity
Tomorrow, Rafaelle Reumaux will defend her thesis about the diversity of management practices in organic cereal production. We ask her three questions. What is your research about, more specifically?
About NJV
From January 1st 2023 NJV is no longer a department. Our research and teaching activities continue as before just within another organisational structure. You still find us and our animals and fields
Our five subjects
Crop Production Ecology Seminar: Our five subjects lisa.beste@slu.se You are very welcome to the last Crop Production Ecology seminar before the summer break. We meet on 30 May at 15.00 in
DT Another MSc about to finish
Cecilia Ward received one of the last Minor Field Study scholarships at SLU in 2022. She used it to gather data for her MSc thesis within the Drylands Transform project in Kenya the year after. Now