A strategy document on the role of the green sector and the life sciences in Sweden’s development towards a sustainable society.
Prepared as an input to the 2012 Research and Innovation Bill with reference to the green sector, under the direction of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA) and with the support of a number of organisations.
With this input to the Research and Innovation Bill, the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA) wishes to:
• Identify needs for strategic knowledge that can form a basis for new, competitive innovations in the areas of:
– Climate change – adaptation and mitigation. – A biobased economy. – Food – supply and security. – Human and animal health.
• Point to the need for both fundamental and applied research in the green sector as a basis for developing competitive goods and services.
• Highlight the importance of combining knowledge from different disciplines.
• Emphasise that the development of competitive products and services calls for an effective innovation system, and stress the importance of collaboration between research and business.
• Draw attention to the need for closer interaction between universities, other higher education institutions, institutes and the wider society.
The strategy document as pdf.
The path to sustainable natural resources management lies along the “E5”. This virtual path to the future meets all our wishes in respect of farmers and businesspeople who view animals and nature – and consumers – with considerable Empathy and who cultivate the soil or raise livestock using Ecologically sound and Ethically defensible methods that offer major Esthetic values and provide favorable Economic results.
Med hänsyn till å ena sidan en ökande världsbefolknings krav på mer och bättre kost och å andra sidan behovet av att använda åkerbruket för produktion av andra resurser än mat – till exempel energi, olika för industriellt ändamål avsedda produkter, rekreation osv. – kan en akut brist på odlingsmark uppstå. Det finns utomordentligt goda skäl att fundera över hur vi egentligen ser på jordbruksjord, en ändlig resurs.
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Sommarnumret innehåller bl a ett referat från Wallenbergprofessor Tobias Kümmerles seminarium om rewilding.