Spring Seminar Day 2026

 

            Theme: Preparedness for primary production

 

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                                                                    20th of April at SLU Alnarp

                                                                                                                         WELCOME!

Program

10:00 - 10:30         Registration and Mingle

10:30 - 10:45         Welcome to SLU Alnarp. Aakash Chawade, Vice Dean at LTV faculty, SLU

10:45 - 11:05         Business preparedness: If a crisis or war comes- with a focus on primary production. Hugo Malm, Communicator FORCE, Länsstyrelsen Skåne.

11:05 - 11:25         TBA

11:25 - 11:45         The role of seeds for preparedness. Maria Norén, utsädeschef, Lantmännen

11:50 - 12:50         Lunch Restaurant ‘Alnarp 9’ (Sundsvägen 9, Alnarp)

12:50 - 13:05         What is plant breeding and why do we need it? Cecilia Hammenhag, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding, SLU

13:05 - 13:25         Plant breeding at Lantmännen. Desirée Börjesdotter, Director Plant Breeding, Lantmännen

13:25 - 13:40         Developing pea and faba bean for increased cultivation at Nordic latitudes. Axel Erlansson, PhD student in FORCE, Department of Plant Breeding, SLU

13:40 - 14:00         Sustainable cropping systems in the perspective of food preparedness. Georg Carlsson, Professor, Department of Biosystems and Technology, SLU

14:00 - 14:15         Ongoing research on co-design of diversified farming systems in FORCE. Mathilde Dionisi, Postdoc in Force, Department of Crop Production Ecology

14:15 - 14:45         Coffee and Mingle

14:45 - 15:45         Round tour with a focus on protein crops: Plant experiments in Biotronen, gene editing/CRISPR lab, SLU Food Lab - OBS! Only for FORCE delegates

 

 

 

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