Agri4D 2025

Welcome to join SLU, SIANI and Sida for Agri4D 2025. The conference will take place in Uppsala. Some of the sessions will be held online.

  • Date: 23-25 September 2025
  • Where: Uppsala, Sweden with some sessions online
  • Main theme: Nurturing regenerative food systems in a changing climate

Welcome to Agri4D!

Join the Agri4D conference, where SLU Global and SIANI will unite science, policy, and practice to make a real-world impact on global food systems and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2. Register for participation already now, early bird prices are valid until June 26.
Programme for Agri4D

Register here!

Here you can register to the Agri4D conference and side activities offered by our partners. Note that we have an early bird price until 26 June!

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

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

Onsite + online streaming

 

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

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.