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

  • 2025-06-05

    Futuring in practice – Rosengård's farming project takes the next step

    Future work, or futuring, is about imagining and planning for potential future scenarios. But more than defining the most accurate future, it is about creating a common understanding and a common language for the challenges and opportunities of the future – and bringing people together.
  • 2025-06-05

    Hanna Weiber Post moves on to new challenges

    For many years, Hanna Weiber Post worked with communications for SLU Urban Futures. As she is leaving her position, we took the opportunity to ask her a few questions about her views on urban issues.
  • 2025-06-03

    Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) grantees 2025-2026

    The fourth round of the Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) at SLU starts on September 1, 2025. Two groups of five researchers each will spend eight months delving into and exploring interdisciplinary working methods during 20% of their working time.
  • 2025-04-23

    Plant genotype-dependent biocontrol of wheat diseases

    Genetic variation in plants can affect how efficiently biological control agents can reduce diseases. In this doctoral thesis, Sidhant Chaudhary has investigated this variation to bring us closer to optimising crops for higher biocontrol responsiveness.
  • 2025-04-11

    A new way to prioritize food issues

    Significant changes have occurred in the food system. The old local systems have started to strain as the systems become more global and complex. Now, we need new methods to secure food supply. One concept gaining increasing attention is food planning.
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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.