Animals – food, sport and companionship

Minh-Xuan Truong has studied the audience of Den stora älgvandringen (The great moose migration) for a couple of years now. This is what he found. Read his own story!

How is food production affected when a country is at war? A new study gathers experiences from Ukrainian farmers and veterinarians – knowledge that can provide important insights for Sweden's crisis preparedness.

Welcome to the department where we teach and research in areas ranging from molecular mechanisms and microbiology to whole animal structure and function! Our main subjects are anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, toxicology, genetics, breeding, immunology, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, epizootology, comparative medicine, food safety, bioinformatics and One Health. Our research covers production animals, companion animals, laboratory animals and wildlife.

Our aim is to advance responsible animal management, welfare, and sustainable food production while ensuring high product quality. Through research and education, we focus on feed and nutrition, management and environment, ethology and animal ethics, as well as animal welfare and protection.

We provide education and conduct research in clinical and comparative veterinary medicine and animal care. We also provide animal health care at SLU University Animal Hospital.

At the Department of Biosystems and Technology, we explore interactions between soil, plants, animals, the environment, climate, and humans in systems for sustainable food production and renewable raw materials. Our teaching and research focus on the sustainable and efficient use of limited resources for production in greenhouses, on agricultural land, and in farm buildings.

Climate change, biodiversity loss and competition for land are putting growing pressure on ecosystems – and on us, who depend on them. Ecological knowledge has never been more vital than it is today. We develop solutions for sustainable agriculture and forestry, plant protection with fewer toxins and effective conservation and wildlife management.

Revealing the molecular mechanisms of biologically relevant processes.

Our mission is to advance scientific understanding of forest ecosystems and the underlying ecological processes, while refining evidence-based principles for their sustainable and effective management.

We generate knowledge supporting the sustainable use of natural resources in a changing world. Our work enhances the understanding of interactions between plants, animals and humans across the globe.

The equine science programme is only available in Swedish.

SLU Wildlife Damage Centre (WDC) is a national center for knowledge about wildlife, wildlife damages and society. Our mission is to reduce negative impacts on human livelihoods caused by protected wildlife species, with particular emphasis on large carnivores, common cranes, geese, and swans. We work with:

SLU Centre for Organic Food and Farming at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences works with collaboration, coordination and information on organic agriculture research in a Swedish, Nordic and international perspective. Epok is a resource for the entire SLU for communications with the outside world and to coordinate and initiate research and education.

Our mission is to support and strengthen research activities on honey bees in Sweden. We maintain beekeeping infrastructure at SLU’s Uppsala campus with honey bee colonies used to facilitate research, but also education, collaborations, and open house activities

SLU Aquaculture is a platform to promote and coordinate aquaculture research and education. Aquaculture-related research is taking place at all four faculties, and our mission is to consolidate and develop aquaculture research and education at SLU.

The CRU is a joint body between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University.

The AgriFood Economics Centre provides economic expertise in the fields of food, agriculture, fishing and rural development. The Centre, which consists of SLU and Lund University, is a platform for applied research. The aim is to supply government bodies with a solid foundation supporting strategic and long- term policy choices.

The AgriFoSe2030 programme targets the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 - "End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture" in low-income contexts. AgriFoSe2030 synthesise and translate existing science into policy and practice, and develop capacity to achieve this.