Sustainability, food, and cities. Nordic and East Asian perspectives
The search for resilient and sustainable food systems is a global challenge. As urban areas continue to grow, cities must be prepared to deal with future crisis.
Date: 2 June 2026
Time: 09:00 - 11:30
Venue: Zoom
Language: English
Participation fee: No cost
Organiser: SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures
Location: Online
This webinar will present and discuss perspectives from different contexts, as part of a collaboration between SLU and Yokohama city university.
Researchers and students will give short presentations of their work in the field, and their will be space for dialogue on how to advance the field through knowledge exchange and collaboration.
Speakers include professor Masazumi Ao Yokohama City University, and is moderated by SLU food and cities coordinator Håkan Jönsson.
Please register below. The webinar will be on Zoom and a link will be sent out by email to all registered participants.
Food and Cities
Food and Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. The project communicates SLU’s existing research and aims to create new encounters between different disciplines and sectors. 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.