Department of Crop Production Ecology
Learning from tradition: Can crop diversity close the organic yield gap?
A team of early-career researchers from SLU’s Department of Crop Production Ecology has secured funding from Ekhagastiftelsen to explore the ecological and nutritional benefits of increasing genetic
Newly launched Restore4More project seeks to contribute knowledge to guide and scale rangeland restoration in East Africa
The newly launched Restore4More project seeks to contribute knowledge to guide and scale rangeland restoration in East Africa. ”Water and transhumance are often overlooked in restoration research
Constraints and opportunities for organic crop production in areas of high agricultural productivity
Tomorrow, Rafaelle Reumaux will defend her thesis about the diversity of management practices in organic cereal production. We ask her three questions. What is your research about, more specifically?
About NJV
From January 1st 2023 NJV is no longer a department. Our research and teaching activities continue as before just within another organisational structure. You still find us and our animals and fields
Our five subjects
Crop Production Ecology Seminar: Our five subjects lisa.beste@slu.se You are very welcome to the last Crop Production Ecology seminar before the summer break. We meet on 30 May at 15.00 in
DT Another MSc about to finish
Cecilia Ward received one of the last Minor Field Study scholarships at SLU in 2022. She used it to gather data for her MSc thesis within the Drylands Transform project in Kenya the year after. Now
Röbäcksdalen Research Station and Röbäcksdalens Research dairy farm
We carry out research and monitoring in a variety of areas such as agricultural science, ecology, climatology, phenology, geochemistry, biology, agroecology, soil science, animal science, food
More about SITES
The infrastructure at Röbäcksdalen has excellent conditions for teaching, research, and applied studies in crop production, soil science, climate studies, feeding of forages, and ecosystem studies in
DT at Global Food conference
Drylands Transform had been accepted for a poster presentation at the 2024 Global Food Security Conference in Leuven, Belgium. Ingrid Öborn was there presenting the project objectives and preliminary
Diss Rafaelle Reumaux
Constraints and opportunities for organic crop production in areas of high agricultural productivity charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Rafaelle Reumaux defends her thesis "Constraints and opportunities
Lövsta Field Research Station
SLU Lövsta Field Research Station runs about 70 agricultural field trials in the Uppsala area. Many of the trials are connected to research projects at SLU, but we also welcome external missions. We
The depths of ecological dynamics and the ethics of citizen science
lisa.beste@slu.se Please be welcome to the Crop Production Ecology Seminar on the 16th of May at 15.00. Please take note that this seminar will be in F-salen at the Ecology Centre. As usual you can