SearchVebjørn Egner Stafseng is a PhD student working on urban community gardens. These are initiatives where urban food gardening is carried out cooperatively, with aims of including a diversity of urban dwellers. Improved mental and physical health, increased…
A new way to prioritize food issues
Significant changes have occurred in the food system. The old local systems have started to strain as the systems become more global and complex. Now, we need new methods to secure food supply.
Urban Food Planning
Food planning, broadly speaking, refers to the integration of food into urban planning. Food-related issues have historically been absent from the urban planning field, however, an emerging area of research is investigating how food perspectives can be integrated…
Urban farming can provide us with food in times of crisis
[Article in Swedish - forskning.se] Tillgång till mat är avgörande för vår överlevnad. Men vad händer om det blir krig, eller en längre kris? Stadsodlingar kan vara ett sätt att dryga ut livsmedlen. Men det krävs en vilja…
Projects granted seed funding in the Urban Food-Energy-Water nexus call
The urban Food-Water-Energy nexus refers to the complex ways food, energy and water systems are intricately connected through urban places and/or processes of urbanization. How food-energy-water systems are used, managed, governed and transformed are integrally connected to whether…
Landpaths – Urban landscapes
The research focuses on ways to deliver biodiversity, climate change and human health goals in the urban context, making recommendations for the governance and management of green spaces in ways that highlight multifunctionality.
Urban food production requires interdisciplinary collaboration
Researchers at SLU investigated whether rooftop greenhouses could be a viable option in Sweden. “By using an interdisciplinary approach, we capture crucial information that might otherwise be overlooked. For example, the connection between natural ventilation and plant protection,…
SOIL at Botildenborg
The Botildenborg Foundation in Malmö runs a farm and meeting place, combining urban gardening with social activities. Since the spring of 2024, SLU Urban Futures has been part of the project SOIL - a Social Innovation Living Lab,…
Projects granted funding from Food & Cities
Read about projects that have been granted seed money from Food & Cities at SLU.
Ultuna Permakultur
Ultuna Permakultur envisions a future where urban gardens flourish in Uppsala, connecting people to the land and each other, and inspiring sustainable living.
Alnarp’s Agroecology Farm
A non for profit running a farm next to SLU Alnarp's campus. Providing fresh organic vegetables and flowers grown with organic and agroecological methods.
What’s to eat? Women, children and the urban food environment: the case of Addis Ababa
Food and nutrition security is a cornerstone for achieving global sustainable development. In Africa’s rapidly growing cities, unemployment and widespread poverty currently leads to high levels of food and nutrition insecurity for a large share of the population.
Getting our cities right: from critical urbanities to sustainable foodscapes
On 14th June 2022 SLU Urban Futures brought together international researchers and practitioners to explore critical urban research and research on sustainable foodscapes. Here you can read the summaries from all the presentations.
How de we get our cities right? June 2022
Four keynote speakers at the conference 'Getting our Cities Right' in Uppsala 2022, answer the question: From your perspective and background, what would be the three key ways to get our cities right?
Food waste in Addis Ababa
A little seed funding goes a long way! This project, led by Associate Professor Assem Abu Hatab at SLU, started with an application to SLU Urban Futures seed funding and resulted in a collaboration project in Addis Ababa…
New guest professor connects urban and rural through food and culture
(Article in Swedish) Håkan Jönsson, är gästprofessor på Institutionen för människa och samhälle. Med bakgrund som kock och med stor kärlek till mat, landsbygd och landskap hoppas han kunna koppla ihop för människan livsviktiga områden i sin nya…
Food & Landscape
How is the landscape affected by what we eat? In the masterprogram Food and Landscape you can learn more about how you can help shaping the food landscape of the future. (Select English subtitle under settings.)
Food & Cities
Food & Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. The project communicates SLU’s existing research and aims to create new encounters between different disciplines and sectors.
Mushrooms cultivation in circular food production
(Article in Swedish) Städernas matavfall kan bli odlingsbäddar för ostronskivling. Den köttiga koralltickan trivs på sågspån från svensk skog. Odlad svamp kan bli en nyckelspelare i så kallad cirkulär matproduktion, menar forskare vid SLU.
Don’t flush the secret to sustainable agriculture down the toilet!
In the apartment buildings of tomorrow, the lowly toilet is set to contribute to reduced emissions and more sustainable agriculture. A new system from researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) transforms urine into nutrient-filled pellets…
Urban Sustainability in the Global South
This transdisciplinary collaboration contributes to the development of research themes at SLU that capture synergies across SLU’s priority areas for global development and the global goals for sustainable development, using urban sustainability as an entry point.
Food waste to new food in an urban context – production, risk assessment and consumer acceptance
The project focuses on the innovative use of anaerobically digested food waste, to allow urban production of healthy food such as oyster mushrooms and new types of leafy vegetables such as Pak Choi.
Smart urban agriculture
[PDF Report] Smart urban agriculture initiatives where food is produced in closed, controlled and digitally augmented environments, such as vertical farms, plant factories and aquaponics systems can be found in cities across the globe. Such initiatives produce fresh…
Urban Take-Away: The Futures Lab
Urban Take-Aways is a film series where researchers and practitioners share insights from various projects relating to urban sustainability. In the first Urban Take-Away, we meet Josefin Wangel and learn more about the Futures Lab at SLU.
Understanding urban foodscapes for planning, design and governance of cities
Food has always had an influence on the urban landscape, beginning in the early markets that cities developed around to today’s meeting places around and with food. It is not only about the food production process, but more…
Circular food production in urban contexts
By taking advantage of resource flows, competencies and activities in the Ultuna area, this project wants to create synergies with the expansive urban development now taking place in Uppsala, by creating a living laboratory for new research and…
The Sustainability of Urban Food Systems in Developing Countries
By 2050, the global food system must feed nine billion people, out of which around eight billions would be in developing countries. This implies the need for a major transformation in food systems- particularly in developing countries, if…
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