SLU Future Food

SLU Future Food is a platform that stimulates and develops cross-disciplinary research and collaboration for economically, ecologically and socially sustainable food systems.

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Interdiscplinarity 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.

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.  

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Podcast

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.

Support and collaboration

SLU Future Food strives to stimulate inter- and multidisciplinary research and education, generate science-based decision support, support and contribute in attracting research funding, and stimulate research networking and cooperation.
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News from SLU Future Food

  • 2025-07-01

    A day of high-tech and agriculture at SLU

    On June 12, 2025, a symposium about digital agriculture and forestry was held at SLU. Around 140 researchers, students, professionals and decision-makers gathered to share groundbreaking technological developments, through lectures, posters and field demonstrations.
  • 2025-06-27

    New alliances with sites

    The symposium Feminist ÉLAN – Designing Landscapes in the Anthropocene represents a week-long program at WIA – Women in Architecture Festival in Berlin. Nina Vogel got invited to present her project ‘From Basement to Kitchen - growing visions for the future of the Swedish Million Programme areas’.
  • 2025-06-23

    Calling researchers and practitioners: Apply by June 30 for our Futuring Masterclass

    As cities around the world grapple with climate change, social inequality, and rapid urbanization, the push toward more sustainable and just urban futures have never been more urgent. Yet many dominant visions – like the much-hyped ‘smart city’ – remain steeped in techno-utopian ideals.
  • 2025-06-19

    Future food and environment in focus when high school students visited SLU

    In recent weeks, we have welcomed high school students to our campuses in Uppsala, Alnarp and Umeå, as part of the SLU Youth Institute programme.
  • 2025-06-19

    SLU Youth Institute hosts engaging week of learning and collaboration

    SLU Global welcomed Rebecca Picard from World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF) to Uppsala for a week-long programme focused on global food systems, youth engagement, and international collaboration.
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Feeding your mind

Feeding your mind is a podcast about research on future food and food futures, produced by SLU Future Food.