SLU Future Food focuses on Swedish food production and food in a wide sense, both animal and vegetable products. Several aspects are covered, from soil use and primary production to processing, consumption and residual products.
The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) has been awarded the Food Planet Prize, in recognition of the centre’s pioneering research and development activities on insects for
Until mid-March 2021, SLU Future Food and Grants Office offer support to SLU's researchers for applications for the call Biotechnology and plant breeding - food, feed and forest products from the
Food waste and how to reduce it is an important topic for sustainable food systems. A new SLU course about food waste, given for the first time this fall, focuses on the current situation and
A few weeks ago, Formas announced that one of the new food centers they will invest in have focus on seafood. Blue Food - Centre for the seafood of the future is the name of this initiative. The work
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in East African drylands is the focus of the research project called Drylands Transform that recently has been funded with 2 million Euros from the
SLU and FAO have jointly published a new report on how a high dairy productivity can be achieved with a low use of antibiotics. The report Tackling antimicrobial use and resistance in dairy cattle:
Covid-19’s effect on global food systems and how to respond futurefood@slu.se The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had major consequences for the world's food system and food security. At this
Universities Fighting World Hunger, UFWH, invites all students, PhD students, researchers and other staff at SLU to participate with posters in their virtual conference in March 2021. The focus for
The COVID‐19 pandemic has disrupted many activities along agri‐food supply chains in developing countries and posed unprecedented challenges for workers and entrepreneurs. Two SLU-led studies have
A secure and sustainable water supply in agriculture is fundamental to acheive food and nutrition security for all. Addressing the problems of increasing water scarcity and drought requires efforts
Food systems resilience in the aftermath of covid-19 – Should the future of food be global or local? futurefood@slu.se Please join us for a conversation with Pierre-Marie Aubert, IDDRI, and
Cropping systems are increasingly simplified, with fewer and fewer crop species grown in rotation from year to year. But diverse rotations provide higher crop yields compared with continuous