Agricultural and Food Economics
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The research within the Agricultural and Food Economics (AFE) group aims to contribute to the understanding of how challenges like climate change, a growing population, and loss of biodiversity can be met to support the sector’s stakeholders.
Our research focuses on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices to ensure the reduction of climate change impacts, promote biological diversity, and improve animal welfare. In addition, we investigate the resilience of agricultural systems in times of climate extremes, economic risks, and uncertainties. We also assess the economic viability of farms and other agri-food businesses, the sector’s resource use efficiency, and the global interdependencies of the agricultural and food sectors. On the consumption side, we focus on determining the societal and consumers’ expectations, and the demand for sustainably produced goods. Our research mainly contributes to finding strategies to achieve food system sustainability.
With this, we engage in interdisciplinary approaches to encompass the complexity and combine theoretical insights from the agricultural and food economics discipline with insights from other sciences; in particular, the natural and behavioural sciences. Our empirical focus spans around the globe and includes Sweden, Europe, Africa, Asia and China.
We work in well-established interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues from other research groups within our Department, in other departments within SLU, as well as international colleagues. Our research is mostly funded from external sources, including Mistra, Formas, the Swedish Farmers’ Foundation for Agricultural Research, and the European Commission.