Research for a sustainable future

Mistra Food Futures will take a systemic perspective in developing pathways for a future Swedish food system that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and resilient. This includes both short-term adaption (by 2030) and long-term transformation (by 2045) of the current system. While the work focuses on Sweden, the proposed pathways will be analysed in a global context to ensure that national solutions also contribute to global sustainable development goals.

The work is carried out through a transdisciplinary consortium where key scientific perspectives are combined and integrated, and where the scientific process of systematic inquiry is developed in close collaboration with non-academic partners from all parts of the food system. Mistra Food Futures will also initiate the transformation through applied activities together with food system actors and by supporting on-going activities, e.g. pilot projects in supply chains, through dissemination and curation of cutting-edge science to relevant industry and policy actors.

The programme period is 2020-2024.

Work packages

Mistra Food Futures is organised into eight distinct, but highly interrelated work packages (WP) designed to work in close iteration to deliver individual and joint outputs.

Coordination and management.

Setting targets and identifying barriers.

Alternative pathways to Sustainable Future Food systems.

Next generation sustainability and resilience performance indicators.

Agricultural systems with net-zero impact of greenhouse gas emissions.

Towards sustainable food processing, retailing and consumption.

Developing strategies for transformation.

Initiating transformation.

Mistra Food Futures is organised into eight distinct, but highly interrelated work packages (WP) designed to work in close iteration to deliver individual and joint outputs.