African vegetable market, Assomada, Santiago Island, Cape Verde Photo: Peter Adams / Getty Images
22 Oct

Online

Kick-off meeting for Agri4D 2027

Welcome to engage in the development of the Agri4D conference 2027. An opportunity to influence the content.

The Agricultural Research for Development (Agri4D) conference is a biennial conference aiming to build capacities, science based knowledge and action among policymakers and practitioners to contribute to developing sustainable food systems and SDG2.

The conference highlights the need for multi-stakeholder dialogues and disseminates science-based knowledge that is key to developing these systems and value chains in the future. So please join us to discuss how to address the current challenges in sustainable food systems. 

We now invite you to a kick-off to brainstorm and discuss topics and themes for the upcoming conference in 2027. 

Objective of the kick-off 

Contribute with ideas to the conference sub-themes
Provide input on activities for a half day ‘early career pre-conference workshop’
Come up with suggestion of Scientific Committee members and Keynote speakers

Who? All actors working on food systems within and outside of Sweden (e.g. researchers, policy makers, students, private actors, practitioners, NGOs, small-holders) 

When? 22 October, 2026 at 10.30-12.00 AM CET (1.5 hrs)

Where? Online 

Please register on this page to get zoomlink and password to the meeting. 

Programme

Programme: 

10.30-12.00 CET

  • Welcome to the meeting: What is Agri4D?
  • Present the overall theme for Agri4D 2027
  • Discuss which sub-themes should be included in Agri4D 2027, and why.
    Short break
  • Discuss activities for ‘early career pre-conference workshop’
  • Concluding discussion and remarks for the way forward