SESSIONS
- All
- Day 1 | Oct 2
- Day 2 | Oct 3
- Day 3 | Oct 4
- Keynote speech
- Workshop
- Exhibition
- Field Visit
- Presentation
- Information Stand
- Roundtable
- Poster
- Panel
Agroecology at UC Berkeley
Professor in Agroecology, Miguel Altieri
Crisis of agriculture and why agroecology is the solution to hunger and food security.
The keynote speech is generously sponsored by SIANI (Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative).
Keynote speech
Ödet - A home for changemakers
Visit a circular testbed Malmö!
Take the chance so visit a circular testbed in Malmö, we show you around our facility and tell you about our ongoing journey on how to become a place to incubate circular initiative. We also share our success and pitfalls, projects and inspirations. Maybe you want to start your own testbed?
Field visit
Svinnbruket
– a local action against foodwaste
Presentation
Malmö Fruktbruk
Taste and learn how to make apple juice! We bring our equipment and together we create super local and 100% raw and natural apple juice for everyone to taste!
(If you have apples or pears, we are happy to use these in the pressing. It takes about 5-6 paper bags for one pressing, which then yields 40-50 liters of must depending on the type of fruit)
Workshop
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Dr (PhD) (he/him) José Luis Vicente-Vicente
Living labs to scale agroecology for the transformation of food
systems. We will show real case studies where different actors are working together to amplify agroecology.
Mossagårdens natur- och hampastiftelse
Eng: Mossagården nature and hemp foundation
Ebba-Maria Olson, founder of HAMPALADAN, pioneers hemp innovation through farming, education, and creativity. Her 350m² venue hosts sensory food experiences, inspiring green entrepreneurship, community, and reconnection with nature.
Field visit
Hellenic Agricultural Organisation (ELGO) - DIMITRA, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture
Dr. Vasileios Gkisakis – Agronomist – Researcher in Hellenic Agricultural Organisation – DIMITRA (ELGO – DIMITRA)
URBANE project, One Health & agroecology was used to study peri-urban farming in Africa, linking farming practices to human, animal & environmental health through technology and policy.
Mini-presentation
University of Helsinki, Ruralia Institute
Researcher Traci Birge, DSc. Agriculture and Forestry (agroecology)
We will demonstrate cool new technologies such as audio devices, camera traps and environmental DNA (eDNA) soil sampling. Also come pick up our new agroforestry booklet for advisors!
Market and exhibition stand
ProVeg International
Senior Policy Research Manager Josh Bisig
Where Regenerative, Organic, Agroecology, and the Plant-Based Movement Meet: This talk explores how the plant-based movement can facilitate the scalability of agroecology, regenerative, and organic visions for food systems transformation.
Presentation
Institute for Agroecology, University of Vermont
Professor William R. Kenan Jr. , Food Studies Emerita, Middlebury College and Research Associate Professor
Agroecology and Workers’ Rights in a Just Transition
Agroecological principles of human and social values should apply to all food system workers, yet most attention has focused on smallholders. This presentation focuses on policies to improve labor conditions
Presentation
City of Malmö
Senior project manager at City of Malmö, Gunilla Andersson
Gunilla will present the multiple roles the City of Malmö has in the urban food system; as policy maker, planner, land owner, purchaser, meal provider and enabler.
Presentation
Reformaten
Mission: Accelerating a research-based transformation of the food system for the planet and human health
Reformaten curates an agroecological food environment with meals, stage talks, an interactive barometer, and a visionary installation—bringing to life how an agroecological Europe can taste, feel, and take shape.
Workshop, presentation
Soilutions: for living soils
Soil Food Web Consultants Josefina Bergsten – Soilutions / Malin Isaksson – Soil Sister
Learn how to make microbe-rich aerobic compost that rapidly repairs degraded soils. This hands-on workshop covers the basics and offers a view into the hidden world of soil microbes.
Workshop
Obstbaumschnittschule
Julie Mathes for the German organisation “Obstbaumschnittschule” (Eng: Fruit tree pruning school)
The Overlooked Key to Agroforestry Success: Tree Care
This collaborative and interactive session focuses on how attentive tree care and supportive policies are essential for thriving agroforestry systems and resilient landscapes. It combines practical techniques with lessons on political challenges from Germany.
Presentation
The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Michelle Bonatti
Understanding how decolonial pedagogies can serve as a transformative vehicle to create and validate agroecological knowledge systems by integrating multiple traditional and alternative epistemologies.
Presentation
Agroecology-TRANSECT
Elena Alter, Raquel Luján Soto, Elisa Oteros Rozas, Marta Guadalupe Rivera Ferre
Struggles for the agroecological transition: narratives of main social movements supporting agroecology in Europe
Language and narratives play a central role in the struggle for an agroecological agri-food model. We explore how do SSMM narratives counter narratives of the agroindustry and dialogue with topics around biodiversity, climate change and socio-economic resilience.
Presentation
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Doctoral researcher Stefan Schüller
An interactive session with short pitches and a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges in developing perennial grain production and marketing across Europe.
(copyright: The Land Institute)
Presentation
Swiss Association for Cooperation on Food Education / NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health
Bc. Jaroslav Guzanic
Re-Balancing Traditions and Modern Food Habits through Agroecology
Presenting a research and practice model from Switzerland & Central Europe seeking to re-explore, celebrate, promote and protect culinary landscape including recipes, indigenous knowledge, championing agroecology and raising awareness on valorising the Central European culinary heritage and its impact on human nutrition and planetary health.
Presentation
Department of Social-Ecological Interactions - University of Kassel and the University of Göttingen
Doctoral Research Scholar Chaima Mobarak
Pathways to regeneration – exploring mental models for connecting food systems diversity with resilience
This session will investigate how mental models can be used to explore personal perceptions as the basis for developing policy briefs and recommendations. The strength of this approach comes from its emphasis on the human element as primary in understanding food systems dynamics and possible transformation pathways.
Workshop
Agroecology Coalition
Associate Coordinator Amélie Steu
The Agroecology Coalition will organize a session on boosting agroecology via increased funding and innovative investments mechanisms and present a poster highlighting its vision for food system transformation through agroecology.
Roundtable
Stories from the Drôme valley in France
Agroecologist, independent researcher and writer Edona Emilie Arnesen
The Drôme valley in France, located between Lyon and Marseille and shaped by the river Drôme running from East to West between the Italian-French mountain border and the river Rhône, is a unique bioregion with a strong common value foundation of solidarity, relationality, citizen engagement, community building, organic living, culture, creativity, and cooperatives and associations above enterprises. I will share stories of cooperative producer shops, associative cafés in villages, of outdoor bars and concerts teeming with life from all walks of life (including dogs), of the abundance of alternatives for sourcing organic, local, seasonal food directly from producers and the abilities present to buy anything one needs organically made, of the diversity of cultural happenings and communal creation which lives in the valley, and how the valley itself has actively chosen to be a hotspot for organic and agroecological life.
Presentation
Regeneration Through Relationality: Re-socializing systems of food provision for ecological regeneration
Agroecologist, independent researcher and writer Edona Emilie Arnesen
Regenerative systems of provision are characterized by being place-based and operating on nature’s premises, within the planetary boundaries and above the social foundation. They’re flexible and dynamic, continually being shaped by their surroundings and participants – and governed as such. They have high levels of relational wealth, and the participants acting in relationships have skin in the game. They cannot thrive in the consumption and growth based society we are locked into today – societal changes are inevitable for them to be a real alternative to current systems of provision. Cultivating regenerative mindsets is the first step in organizing society for systems of provision that regenerate ecological systems through their activity.
Poster
Communing to synthesise our experiences from the Forum as a stepping stone to move into action
Agroecologist, independent researcher and writer Edona Emilie Arnesen
A communion to gather the threads from the forum that have most impacted you and to share both them and what you take with you as inspiration and motivation to move into action. The communion is both a place of coming together to share, decompress, synthesize – and also a space to get supported in what you want to take into action with your own hands, heart and head. We come together to make sense of how we want to “be in the world”, for ourselves, others and for greater causes within the context of agroecological food systems and societies. We will do exercises to concretise what we’ve individually learned and reflected on so we can all leave with a strengthened personal quest to realise in our communities.
Workshop
Deafal : IESS – Innovative Agroecological Actions for Soil Regeneration
Mr Matteo Mancini
IESS is a Tuscan project by Deafal promoting agroecological practices like cover crops, composting, and poultry integration to regenerate soil. Using digital tools for monitoring and planning, it combines traditional knowledge with innovation to build resilient farming systems and tackle climate, soil, and biodiversity challenges.
Presentation
RE-PEAT
Campaign Coordinator Bobbi
In this workshop we explore how the shift to peat-free horticulture can spark systemic change, connecting peatland conservation with social justice to reimagine how we grow, sell, and relate to food and plants.
Workshop
AllEcoSys project, funded by the Agroecology partnership
Nika Jachowicz (postdoc, University of Copenhagen), Lene Sigsgaard (Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and affiliated to University of Copenhagen), Martine Bjelland (researcher, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) and Stine Kramer Jacobsen (associate professor, University of Copenhagen)
Beneficial Insects in agroecosystems – importance of diversification and how to assess it. What we know, how to study insects, examples from AllEcoSys Agroecology project.
Presentation
LAND TOGETHER - Cultivating, belonging and justice
Program Manager Lauren Beatty-Harris
This proposal uplifts women as ancestral seed keepers and cultural stewards, exploring agroecology as a path to food justice, healing, and reconnection across generations, migrations, and historical displacements.
Presentation
Rydeholm Agroforestry Farm - Field Visit
Farmer Anders Lindén at Rydeholm
Trees are the central characters in primary production on the farm Rydeholm since 2010. #Agroforestry #Agrowilding #Treecrops #Nutcrops #Forest Garden #Food Forest #Philosophy #Agroecology #Human Ecology #Decolonization #Degrowth #Ecorestoration #Trees
Field visit
Agroecology Europe
Agroecology Europe in Action: Our collective way forward
Join Agroecology Europe for an engaging session presenting our mission, methods, and key positions, including on livestock and regenerative agriculture. Discover how we work, what we stand for, and why it matters.
Presentation
The county administrative board of Skåne
Project Managers – Mia Davidsson, Helen Nilsson & Maritha Hamrin
Competence Development within the Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy
We want to promote diversity in Skåne’s agricultural landscape, both biological and knowledge based. Through dynamic procurement and versatile networks, we create knowledge, meetings, and synergies that strengthen rural businesses.
Workshop