Call for applications to Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA)
The fifth call for applications to SLU's Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) (2026-2027) is now open. Here are all details about the call and important dates.
Tracking climate shocks to build future resilience
What can past climate extremes teach us about resilience? Researchers at SLU’s Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) 2025-2026 are studying long-term data on climate, farming, soils, and society to uncover patterns that could help us adapt to future challenges.
Food & Cities
Food & Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. The project seeks to identify knowledge gaps and cross-disciplinary research questions and investigates how a long-term thematic focus on food and cities could be established at SLU.
Growing a broad set of crops does not threaten food security
Crop rotations with a broad set of crops can produce more calories and nutrients than growing only cereals year after year. This result of an international study led by SLU challenges the common argument that diverse crop rotations produce less food.
Meat: the Four Futures
Are our choices in the grocery store based on facts, values, habits, or simply a gut feeling of what feels right? Listen to a podcast that takes a holistic view of the future of meat, exploring four very different future scenarios.
Interdisciplinarity at SLU
One of the most important goals for the Future Platforms is to develop interdisciplinary working methods at SLU by initiating and enabling collaboration across scientific disciplinary boundaries.
News from SLU Future Food
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Growing a broad set of crops does not threaten food security – quite the opposite
Crop rotations with a broad set of crops can produce more calories and nutrients than growing only cereals year after year. This result of an international study led by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) challenges the common argument that diverse crop rotations produce less food. -
When waste becomes a carrier of disease: Finding solutions to protect Sweden's pigs and food production
Have you ever considered that food waste disposed incorrectly later in the trash chain can attract wild animals – and contribute to the spread of deadly diseases? This is believed to have happened when African swine fever was suddenly discovered in Sweden. How can we prevent history from repeating? -
Agroecology and Sustainable Intensification: the Values Beneath the Science
What does “sustainable agriculture” actually mean, and why do scientists disagree about it? -
What Counts as “Good Farming”?
How does values, assumptions, and disciplinary silos shape the future of sustainable agriculture? A new episode of the Feed podcast from TABLE discusses this based on a SLU study. -
A Practical Guide to Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Research
Despite widespread calls for interdisciplinarity, biodiversity research still struggles to integrate social and natural sciences. A new article offers practical advice for moving from ambition to action.