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Agri4D 2023: Themes

Theme 1: Securing food and nutrition within planetary boundaries

This theme aims to bring forward discussions relating to all stages of food systems and their outcomes, from ecosystems supporting production, to the producers, consumers, including value chain and market actors, linking farmers to consumers.

Within this theme, we invite researchers, decision-makers and practitioners who are exploring challenges, and innovative solutions to increase the resilience of food systems in times of crises across the Global South.

This theme embraces related research topics, including:

Resilient food production systems
Sustainable food processing approaches and value chains
Transparent and inclusive market systems
Accessible food, nutrition and health
Landscape approaches and climate change

Theme 2: Governance and rights in food systems: Leaving no one behind

In order to create sustainable and resilient food systems it is important to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities to prevent future risks and promote sustainable solutions. This theme emphasises topics that aim to answer ‘resilience for whom?’ within food systems. Marginalised groups in society are often impacted the most by food crises, but have unique opportunities for transforming those systems away from status quo. These groups vary across contexts but may include e.g. smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, marginalised genders, children and youth, etc.

We encourage stakeholders to bring forward context specific experiences and examples to discuss why and how vulnerabilities exist in food systems, who is affected and why, and potential ways to solve such challenges.

This theme invites presentations exploring examples in relation to:

Food (in)justice, food sovereignty, gender
Rights to food (i.e. food as a human right), food security, food and nutrition
Understanding vulnerabilities in food systems (e.g. intersectional processes and power relations that make specific people vulnerable)
Transformative or innovative practices promoted by marginalised peoples or groups
Income security and wealth creation in agri-food systems
Smallholder rights e.g. land tenure/ natural resources rights, to secure access to land
The roles of private and public sectors in food systems (e.g. how the public sector can enable private sector investments, how private sector involve in community engagement and supply chains at local levels)

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 SDG 2. 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.

All stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, civil society, private sector and policy makers, who are working on food systems in vulnerable contexts, are invited to join the conference to discuss innovative solutions for tomorrow. You can engage in several ways, for example through oral presentations, workshops, roundtable discussions or storytelling.

Organised by SLU Global at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI), with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).