How do we achive fossil-free agriculture in Sweden?

A transition to fossil-free agriculture is probably the most important step of all in the creation of a sustainable food supply system.

However, even if the goal is strongly supported by national as well as international policies, very little is known on how this actually should be done in practise, i.e. the process for agriculture to become fossil-free.

This project will provide key insights into how Swedish agriculture can adopt to a fossil-free regime, what the economic and environmental consequences will be, what behavioural drivers or barriers may affect adoption and how policy can support the transition.

The project will also assess the potential to increase farm production resilience by adoption of fossil-free energy supply systems.We will work in an interdisciplinary research approach together with industry actor Lantmännen The project is organised in five interlinked WPs where competencies in energy systems, time dynamic life cycle assessment (LCA), agricultural economic models and experiments, and behavioural insights and psychometric methods are combined.

The project is designed as two interlinked PhD projects (one in technology and one in agricultural economics).

The work will be applied to both conventional and certified organic production systems and we will develop systems for crop as well as livestock farms.