Vetenskapliga artiklar
2026
Sustainable Futures
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for sustainability assessment–How reliable are the results?
Navigating through widely different strategies for pursuing sustainability in complex systems demands comprehensive approaches to thoroughly assess their performance, accounting for multiple, often conflicting, domains of sustainability.
2025
Geoscientific Model Development
CIBUSmod 25.09: A spatially disaggregated biophysical agri-food systems model for studying national-level demand- and production-side intervention scenarios. Geoscientific Model Development
The model illustrates how agricultural and food systems impact climate, land use, and nutrient flows, offering different calculation methods and the ability to assess environmental impacts and biodiversity.
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
The global deforestation footprint of agriculture and forestry
Global forest loss threatens the climate, biodiversity, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Tracking deforestation linked to commodity production and consumption allows for the identification of trends, drivers, and hotspots, providing a basis for zero-deforestation policies.
Journal of Cleaner Production
From waste to value? Balancing climate and social outcomes in social supermarkets
Food waste is a major global challenge, with around one-third of all food—1.3 billion tonnes annually—lost or wasted despite commitments to halve it by 2030.
Journal of cleaner production
Climate impact of yeast oil from fast-growing perennial biomass (willow)
Den ökande globala efterfrågan på fetter orsakar miljöproblem vid produktion av vegetabiliska oljor och kan hota livsmiljöer vid jordbruksutvidgning, men denna studie visar att pil (Salix spp.) odlad på vilande mark kan användas som råvara för jästolja och bedöms utifrån energi- och klimatpåverkan.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Introducing a comprehensive and configurable tool for calculating environmental and social footprints for use in dietary assessments
It is well established that dietary patterns must be transformed to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental challenges. While life cycle and footprint assessments provide valuable insights at the product level, comprehensive evaluations of entire diets are necessary to guide sustainable food choices.
Sustainable production and consumption
Advancing metrics for animal welfare and antibiotic use in sustainability assessments of diets
Assessment of diet sustainability often considers environmental impacts, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land and water use. This study improves sustainability assessments by also including animal welfare and antibiotic use.
Agricultural Systems
When arable land is the limit: Paths for future livestock production – An example from Norway
The findings of this study highlight Norway’s potential to develop sustainable livestock systems that tackle environmental challenges while ensuring food security.
Agribusiness
Swedish Consumers’ Willingness-to-Pay for Plant-Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios
There is an international and national policy debate on shifting from animal-based to more plant-based proteins in high-income countries.
Ecological Economics
Cost-neutral food tax reforms for healthier and more sustainable diets
This study evaluates cost-neutral food tax reforms integrating climate and health objectives, compared with strictly climate- and health-focused reforms.
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Mapping the climate impact of rye bread production in Sweden: insights into cultivation, packaging, and surplus management for sustainable food systems
The current food system is a key driver of environmental pressure, especially since much of the food produced is wasted.
Environmental research letters
A restatement of the protein transition
A protein transition is promoted as a pathway toward a sustainable food system, but its application and progress are potentially hindered by diverse, often conflicting narratives among various stakeholders.
Research Square
Reduced life cycle climate impact from manure through catalytic methane conversion and carbon dioxide removal
The increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate scenario modelling shows the need for rapidly regressing GHG emissions through the parallel deployment of mitigation efforts and negative emissions across all of sectors.
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Integrating biodiversity impacts into seafood life cycle assessments: pathways for improvement.
The variety of species and ecosystems on land and in the oceans is important for keeping the Earth in balance. Biodiversity helps maintain clean water, air, and soil, and provides food and other essential resources.
Empirical Economics
The impact of drought on farm economic performance: evidence from Sweden.
Droughts in Northern Europe, particularly in Sweden, are a relatively recent phenomenon. Consequently, farmers have had limited, if any experience in managing severe drought conditions.
Nature Food
Emerging alternatives to coffee, cocoa and palm oil deserve a spot on the research agenda
Despite increasing interest in cellular agriculture, coffee, cocoa and palm oil produced using these techniques have received limited scientific attention.
Food Quality and Preference
Psychological barriers for sustainable diets: Unpacking intention-behavior gaps in meat consumption
Many consumers already express a strong interest in adopting more sustainable and healthy dietary habits, yet empirical research suggests that the link between these intentions and actual changes in diet is weak.
Food Policy
(Un)acceptable protein shift: Consumer attitudes toward retail-led interventions promoting sustainable diets
A study on consumer attitudes toward retail-led interventions promoting sustainable diets.
Communications Earth & Environment
Diet changes in food futures improve Swedish environmental and health outcomes
Through smarter production, healthier eating habits, and reduced food waste, food can feed more people while being produced within the planet’s boundaries – benefiting both people and nature.
Sustainable production and consumption
Advancing metrics for animal welfare and antibiotic use in sustainability assessments of diets
This study contributes to the improvement of sustainability assessments of food systems by advancing methods to include animal welfare and antibiotic use.
Environmental Research: Food Systems
Are interventions for environmentally sustainable dietary behaviours effective? A review
In the face of growing environmental pressures, understanding how governance can promote more sustainable dietary behaviours is increasingly critical.
Journal of Agricultural Economics
Sustainability Effects of the Uptake of More Grass-Based Feeding Practices: Evidence From Sweden
We examine the effects of the uptake of grass-based feeding practices on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of farm sustainability.
Environmental Research: Food Systems
Effectiveness of governance interventions in achieving environmentally sustainable dietary behaviours – a review of the evidence
In the face of growing environmental pressures, understanding how governance can promote more sustainable dietary behaviours is increasingly critical.
Agricultural Systems
Economic and climate effects of farm-level biogas adoption: A stochastic partial budget analysis and life cycle assessment for Swedish dairy farming
There is a growing interest in investments in technology that can help farms to become fossil-free, without compromising their economic incentives, and while significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Sustain Sci (2025)
“Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures
Matkulturernas roll i omställningen av livsmedelssystem får allt större utrymme i den vetenskapliga diskursen.
Field Crops Research, Volume 326. (2025)
Rotational grass-legume leys increase arable crop yields, particularly at low N fertiliser rates
Att inkludera fleråriga vallar i växtföljder kan öka avkastningen på spannmålsgrödor samt halten av organiskt kol i jorden.
Futures & Foresight Science
Exploring Pathways for Change: A Practice-Oriented Integration of Foresight and Sustainability Transitions
Den snabba förlusten av biologisk mångfald kan endast stoppas om naturliga ekosystem bevaras istället för att exploateras för industriella eller jordbruksändamål.
2024
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 39:e36. (2024)
Feeding straw to suckler cows spared land but did not decrease the climate impact of beef
Idisslare kan fortfarande ingå i hållbara livsmedelssystem, eftersom de kan omvandla grov biomassa som är olämplig för mänsklig konsumtion (t.ex. gräs eller halm) till livsmedel för människor – de fungerar med andra ord som "uppgraderare".
Beijer Discussion Paper Series, Report No: 280
Citizen support for taxes and subsidies implemented to achieve more sustainable food consumption: the role of policy design and presentation
Ecological Economics
What factors influence choosing fish over meat among grocery shoppers? Insights from an unsuccessful nudge intervention.
Nature Communications 15, 951 (2024).
Sustainability benefits of transitioning from current diets to plant-based alternatives or whole-food diets in Sweden
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Volume 22, 100403 (2024)
An indicator framework to guide food system sustainability transition – The case of Sweden
Choice experimental evidence from Sweden.
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 2024:1-25 (2024)
Information provision and preferences for more sustainable dairy farming: Choice experimental evidence from Sweden
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 202, (2024)
Future climate impacts of sodium-ion batteries
Natriumjonbatterier (SIB) har vuxit fram som ett alternativ till litiumjonbatterier (LIB) tack vare deras lovande prestanda när det gäller livslängd, säkerhet, drift i bredare temperaturintervall samt tillgången på natriumresurser som är både rikliga och kostnadseffektiva.
Science of The Total Environment, Volume 918 (2023)
Cover crop cultivation strategies in a Scandinavian context for climate change mitigation and biogas production – Insights from a life cycle perspective
Odling av fånggrödor kan vara en viktig strategi för att mildra klimatförändringarna inom jordbruket, genom att öka kolinlagringen i marken och förbättra resurseffektiviteten i odlingssystemet.
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 00, 1–20 (2024)
Understanding dairy farmers’ trade-offs between environmental, social and economic sustainability attributes in feeding systems: The role of farmers’ identities
Journal of Cleaner Production (2024)
Drivers of a more sustainable future food system – Lessons from Sweden
Geoderma, Volume 441, (2024)
Modelling biochar long-term carbon storage in soil with harmonized analysis of decomposition data
Även om biokol i allt högre grad erkänns som en teknik för att avlägsna koldioxid, pågår det fortfarande vetenskapliga diskussioner om hur beständigheten hos biokolets kol ska uppskattas när biokol används i jordar.
2023
Sustainable production and consumption
Dairy cow welfare measures: can production economic data help?
Farm animal welfare (FAW) is often perceived as poor by consumers, reinforcing concerns with and rejections of modern production systems.
Journal of Dairy Science (2023)
Dairy cow longevity and farm economic performance: Evidence from Swedish dairy farms
Dept. Ecology, SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Biodiversity friendly landscapes – A question with many solutions. In: Defining Agroecology – A Festschrift for Teja Tscharntke
Building on some of Teja Tscharntke’s key papers we discuss a number of complexities of farming systems and agricultural landscapes that we believe should be included in future studies of production landscapes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(26), (2023)
Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations
Nat Food 4, 926–927 (2023)
A rebalanced discussion of the roles of livestock in society
Food Policy (2023), Volume 121
Why do people accept or reject climate policies targeting food consumption? Unpacking justifications in the public debate in online social forums
En förändring i kostvanor kommer att krävas för att uppnå globala klimatmål. Ur ett socialt dilemma-perspektiv är dock stora frivilliga förändringar i kostmönster osannolika.
Sustainability, 15(16) (2023)
Plant Breeding to Mitigate Climate Change – Present Status and Opportunities with an Assessment of Winter Wheat Cultivation in Northern Europe as an Example
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts (2023)
Energy performance of compressed biomethane gas production from co-digestion of Salix and dairy manure: factoring differences between Salix varieties
Biogas från anaerob nedbrytning är en mångsidig energibärare som kan uppgraderas till komprimerad biometangas (CBG) och utgöra ett förnybart och hållbart alternativ till naturgas.
Sustainability (Switzerland), 15(16) (2023)
Climate Assessment of Vegetable Oil and Biodiesel from Camelina Grown as an Intermediate Crop in Cereal-Based Crop Rotations in Cold Climate Regions
Agricultural Systems, Volume 212 (2023)
What can we learn from the past? Tracking sustainability indicators for the Swedish dairy sector over 30 years, Agricultural Systems
Smart Agricultural Technology, 4 (2023)
Impact of lowered vehicle weight of electric autonomous tractors in a systems perspective
Sustain Sci 18, 335–345 (2023)
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 18, Number 4 (2023)
A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems
European Journal of Agronomy, Vol. 149, (2023)
Effect of short-term perennial leys on life cycle environmental performance of cropping systems: An assessment based on data from a long-term field experiment
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Volume 18, (2023)
Measuring sustainability at farm level – A critical view on data and indicators – ScienceDirect
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, 16(1), 140, (2023)
From straw to salmon: a technical design and energy balance for production of yeast oil for fish feed from wheat straw
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 00, 1– 24 (2023)
Farmers’ adoption of ecological practices: A systematic literature map
Environmental Technology & Innovation, Volume 30, (2023)
Environmental consequences of pig production scenarios using biomass from rotational grass-clover leys as feed
SSRN (2023)
To What Extent Can Bio-Ccs from Biogas Upgrading Provide Negative Emissions?
Koldioxidavskiljning och lagring (CCS) av CO₂ från biogasuppgraderingsanläggningar har föreslagits som en metod för att uppnå negativa koldioxidutsläpp.
Ecological Economics
Diagnostic, regenerative or fossil-free – exploring stakeholder perceptions of Swedish food system sustainability
The current global food system poses considerable environmental and social problems and many people lack access to healthy diets or suffer from obesity and diet-related diseases.
Journal of Environmental Management 325:116400, (2023)
A large share of climate impacts of beef and dairy can be attributed to ecosystem services other than food production.
2022
Environmental Evidence 11(1):17, (2022)
What evidence exists on the effects of public policy interventions for achieving environmentally sustainable food consumption? A systematic map protocol
Journal of Sustainable Production and Consumption. 32, 296-305, (2022)
Dairy cow welfare measures: can production economic data help?
Nature food, 3(11), pp.933-941, (2022)
A systematic scoping review of the sustainability of vertical farming, plant-based alternatives, food delivery services and blockchain in food systems
Journal of Cleaner Production, 365, 132622, (2022)
Choice of health metrics for combined health and environmental assessments of foods and diets: a systematic review of methods.
Journal of Cleaner Production 2022:331, (2022)
Time-dependent climate impact of beef production – can carbon sequestration in soil offset enteric methane emissions?
Marine Policy, Volume 158, (2022)
Follow the herring – a case study on the interplay between management and markets for marine resource utilization
Agroforestry Systems, 97, 133-149, (2022)
Farmers’ willingness to adopt silvopastoral systems: Investigating Swedish cattle producers’ compensation claims and attitudes using a contingent valuation approach
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 321, (2022)
Albedo on cropland: Field-scale effects of current agricultural practices in Northern Europe
Science of the Total Environment, 2022:835, (2022)
Albedo impacts of current agricultural land use: Crop-specific albedo from MODIS data and inclusion in LCA of crop production
2021
One Earth, 4(2), pp.172-176, (2021)
Patchwork Earth: Navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures.
ustainability, 2021:13, 11285, (2021)
Life Cycle Assessment of Autonomous Electric Field Tractors in Swedish Agriculture
Journal of Environmental Management. Volume 287, (2021)
Adjusting eco-efficiency to greenhouse gas emissions targets at farm level – The case of Swedish dairy farms
Global Food Security, 28, p.100487, (2021)
Moving beyond organic – A food system approach to assessing sustainable and resilient farming
