Swedish Research on Organic Food and Farming 2008–2015 – Updated version november 2015.

摘要

Swedish research on organic farming is to a large extent funded by directed calls for research on organic food systems. The funders are the research council Formas, the Swedish Board of Agriculture and SLU EkoForsk at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Furthermore, the Swedish Farmers’ Foundation for Agricultural Research (SLF) is funding research on organic farming within their ordinary research programs. In 2013 a special program for research on organic farming was launched, which was a joint call of SLF and Formas for the period 2014-2016. The Ekhaga foundation (www.ekhagastiftelsen.se) also support research mainly focused on organic food quality, but is not reported here. ududSwedish research on organic farming is also funded by international funding bodies, e.g. the EU framework programs. Furthermore, several ERA-Net programs, mainly funded by national partners, are relevant for organic agricultural research. In this report only projects within the ERA-Net CORE Organic are included. ududIn this publication the funded research projects since 2008 are listed. From SLU EkoForsk and Formas the three latest calls are listed together with the joint SLF/Forams call. Also, projects funded by Formas in a new four-year organic research program that will start in 2015 are reported. Projects that were granted funds from the Swedish Board of Agriculture 2014 and 2015 are also listed here.