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9 June 2025

Celebrating 75 Years of the Swedish FAO Committee

Partnering with FAO for Global Food Security

Photo: Johannes Plenio / Unspash

To celebrate 75 years of the Swedish FAO Committee, the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA) and the Swedish FAO Committee are hosting a seminar to look back on the Committee’s achievements, and forward to more collaboration for sustainable food systems. SIANI has been a member of the Swedish FAO Committee since 2014.

The event will also launch the Committee’s latest publication “Innovation and Drivers for Circularity and Bioeconomy.” SIANI has contributed to the editing of the publication and SEI’s Ivar Virgin will be part of the panel presenting it at the launch.

Register for the seminar.

For more information, visit the KSLA event website.

Times

From 9 June 2025 at 13:00 to 9 June 2025 at 17:00

Venue

Online and at Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA), Drottninggatan 95 B, Stockholm

Hosted by

Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture (KSLA)
Swedish FAO Committee
Swedish Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure

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Agenda

13.00 Introduction – Digital link opens at 12.45
Academy Secretary Peter Normark.

13.05 Welcome address Ministry of Rural Affairs

13.10 FAO and the Swedish partnership throughout the years – panel discussion

  • Cecilia Nordin van Gansberghe* – Former Permanent Representative of Sweden to FAO
  • Inge Gerremo* – Honory Fellow, former Permanent Representative of Sweden to FAO
  • Ulf Magnusson* – Professor Animal Reproduction at the Dept of Clinical Sciences, SLU
  • Pernilla Ivarsson* – Deputy Permanent Representative of Sweden to FAO
  • Annika Otterstedt – Director, Sida

13.55 Presentation of the FAO Committees Publication 2025 – Innovation and Drivers for Circularity and Bioeconomy

  • Anders Malmer – External Resource to SLU
  • Ivar Virgin –Senior Research Fellow, SEI
  • Anna Tibblin –Secretary General, We effect
  • Krishan Kent – Chairman of Sweden Fishfood Association
  • Thais Linhares Juvenal – Senior Advisor Governance, Economics and Production, FAO

14.55 Coffee break

15.15 50 years with FAO and the State of Global Food Security and Nutrition
Maximo Torero –Chief Economist, FAO

15.45 Food Security and Nutrition for all for today and tomorrow

  • Katarina Wolf – Chair Federation of Young Swedish Farmers (LRF)
  • Ebba Engström – PhD student, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College
  • Carl Filip Trolle-Hjälte – Farmer, KSLA Board Committee for Youth Issues

16.45 Closing remarks Daniel Liljeberg – State Secretary to Minister for Rural Affairs

17.00 Reception with refreshments

*Academy Fellow