Department of Crop Production Ecology
Leveraging remote sensing for sustainable agricultural intensification
Global environmental change, including climate change and natural resource degradation, is challenging food security and livelihoods around the world. The abundance and quality of remote sensing
SLU Plant Protection Network kick-off
cajsa.lithell@slu.se Come, meet and connect with others at SLU working within plant protection or plant health. Get to know and help shaping our new SLU Plant Protection Network, and find out what
Specific cultivar traits are important in intercropping systems
In his PhD studies, James Ajal has investigated intercropping combinations of pea and barley as well as faba bean and wheat, and found that the nutrient uptake efficiency of the crops play a more
Share your research at the Science Festival SciFest in March!
At SciFest, you have the chance to present your research to school students and the general public. You can count on many questions and exciting discussions. All you need is an interesting and fun
Multifunctional biomass plantations can co-deliver biomass and environmental benefits
Large-scale deployment of perennial biomass plantations can effectively reduce nitrogen emissions to water and soil loss by wind erosion. This is shown in a spatial modelling study across over 81,000
Drylands Transform soon at Agri4D
Drylands Transform will soon have two oral presentations at the Agri4D conference on 28-30th of September 2021. First on the 29th of September Stephen Mureithi will present on the topic of "Livestock
Per Knutsson seminar
Per Knutsson, one of the Dryland Transform researchers will on the 6th of October have a webinar on the topic "Commoning or Commodification? Pastoralist Land Rights in the Face of Political, Economic
Livestock café establishment
The concept of a livestock café is an excellent and novel way of engaging with farmers and local communities through a participatory approach of having field experiments. Livestock cafés as locally
diss Hui Liu
Associations among early-season root and shoot traits, nutrient use efficiency and grain yield of spring wheat charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Hui Liu defends her thesis "Associations among early-season
Agricultural contamination
Agricultural contamination from pesticides to micro pollutants Over the past decades, chemicals are used to optimize agricultural production to meet the ever-growing demands for food, feed, and
Disp Xiangyu Luan
Leaf- to field-level compound effects of warm and dry conditions on crops and potential mitigating strategies mw-red@slu.se Xiangyu Luan will defend his PhD thesis, “Leaf- to field-level compound
Biotechnology for Sustainability – Final report from Mistra Biotech 2012-2020
Mistra Biotech is a Swedish research programme that has been working for eight years to advance the use of modern biotechnology for a more sustainable agriculture. We have done this on a broad basis,