Agri4D 2025 - Nurturing regenerative food systems in a changing climate

Welcome to join SLU, SIANI and Sida for Agri4D 2025. The conference will take place in Uppsala and online. Don't miss to register before 1 September to join onsite!

  • Date: 23-25 September 2025
  • Where: Uppsala, Sweden, with some sessions online
  • Register before 1 September to join onsite

Welcome to Agri4D!

Join the Agri4D conference, to discuss science that can contribute to evidence-based policy and practice needed to transform global food systems and contribute to the sustainable development goals. Register for participation onsite before 1 September.
Programme for Agri4D

Register here!

Here you can register to the Agri4D conference and side activities offered by our partners. New deadline for registration onsite: 1 September 2025 (Note! For participants presenting abstracts last day to register is 20 August.) Registration for online participation is open until start.

Themes 2025

The theme for the conference 2025 will be "Nurturing regenerative food systems in a changing climate" with three specific sub-themes: 1. Empowering the next generation of food systems leaders 2. Transforming food systems: innovation and implementation 3. Equity, justice, and resilience
Read more about the themes
Keynote speakers

Nitya Rao

Professor, East Anglia University

Shakuntala Thilsted

Director, Nutrition, Health & Food Security Impact Area Platform, CGIAR.

Erik Alexandersson

Scientific research manager, Novo Nordisk Foundation

Miguel Altieri

Professor, University of California

Patrick Okori

Executive Secretary RUFORUM

Moderators and speakers

Curious about the rest of the speakers and moderators? Agri4D is proud to present inspiring speakers and excellent moderators for this year's conference.
Read more about them here
Programme and reflections

Day 1 - Tuesday 23 Sep 2025

Venue: Loftets hörsal, Duhrevägen 8B, SLU Campus Ultuna, Uppsala, Sweden.

Time

Activity

Location

15:45

Registration, coffee

Onsite

16:00

Speed networking and partner’s pitch

Onsite

18:00

Conference Dinner

Ulls restaurant

 

Side event 1:

Symposium: A Decade of Swedish–African Collaboration in Agricultural Science for Development in Africa
Venue: Campus Ultuna (exact location TBD)
Date & Time: 23 September, 9:00-12:00

Join us for a short symposium where SLU and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) will present work from more than a decade of joint agricultural science for development in Africa. Results and future outlooks of projects aimed at improving durum wheat for the Senegal River Basin and barley for Ethiopia will be presented. The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion featuring representatives from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, SLU, ICARDA, NordGen and the Nordic breeding industry, who will discuss the future of agricultural development research and collaboration.

Side event 2:

Climate Change and Pathways for Resilience and Sustainability in Africa
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute Library, Villavägen 6, Uppsala
Date & Time: 23 September, 13:30-15:30
Join us for a panel discussion on climate change and pathways for resilience and sustainability, featuring experts in the field. The discussion will be followed by coffee and informal networking.

Sign up for the side event when register for the conference

Day 2 - Wednesday 24 Sep 2025

Time

Activity

Location

8:00

Registration open

Onsite

8:30

Welcome address -
Vice chancellor of SLU, Maria Knutson Wedel

Opening address - Secretary of State to the Minister for Rural Affairs, Daniel Liljeberg

Opening address – Director General of Sida, Jakob Granit

Onsite + online streaming

9.15

Keynote presentation with Professor Miguel Altieri, University of California

Onsite + online streaming

10:00

Coffee and mingle

 

10:30

Parallel sessions

Onsite

12:00

Lunch break

Ulls restaurant

13:30

Keynote presentation with Professor Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia

Onsite + online streaming

 

Coffee, mingle and poster walk

Onsite + online 

15:00

Parallel sessions

Onsite + online participation

16:45

Panel discussion with key take-aways

Onsite + online streaming

17:30

Afternoon activities

Onsite

19:00

Dinner in town

Västgöta Nation  (Slottsgränd 12, Uppsala)

Day 3 - Thursday 25 Sep 2025

 

Time

Activity

Location

8:30

Welcome to day 3

Onsite + online streaming

 

Keynote presentations with Shakuntala Thilsted, CGIAR, and Dr. Erik Alexandersson, Novo Nordisk Foundation

Onsite + online streaming

10:00

Coffee and mingle

 

10:30

Parallel sessions

Onsite

12:00

Lunch

Ulls restaurant

13:30

Keynote presentation with Dr. Patrick Okori, RUFORUM

Onsite + online streaming

14:15

Coffee and mingle

 

14:45

Parallel sessions

Onsite + online participation 

16:30

Panel discussion with key take-aways

Onsite + online streaming

17:00

Closing

Onsite + online streaming

 

Side event Friday 26 September: 

Vet. Marie Anne Mukasafari PhD will defend her thesis 26th September at 9.15 in Are room (VHC building, entrance floor). 

Title: Milk matters. Linking dairy cow feed to milk yield and quality, and child undernutrition in Northern Rwanda.”

“Stunting, a form of chronic undernutrition in children, is a major public health concern worldwide. Livestock can play a crucial role in reducing stunting by supplying nutrient-dense animal-source foods needed for child growth and development. This thesis aimed to study the association between keeping a lactating cow and the prevalence of stunting in smallholder households in the Northern Province of Rwanda by looking at feeding and milking practices, milk yield and quality, and the association between keeping a lactating cow and stunting in young children.”

Participants at Agri4D are welcome to come and listen.
Note that the disputation will take place 26th September, the day after the conference has finished. 

Agri4D objective

The objective of Agri4D 2025 is to discuss science that can contribute to evidence-based policy and practice needed to transform global food systems and contribute to the sustainable development goals. This year’s Agri4D will focus on nurturing regenerative food systems that are resilient to climate change and have low climate impact, while contributing to social, environmental and economic sustainability. The conference encourages dynamic multi-stakeholder dialogues that can stimulate transformations contributing to eradicate hunger in the world.
About Agri4D

Reflections from Agri4D 2023

Read Matthew Kessler's blogpost about his reflections on resilient food systems after Agri4D 2023.