Nordic Association of Agricultural Science

Webinar: Nordic-Baltic perspectives on research collaboration in agriculture, climate change and climate challenges
2024-05-22 | Online
A Nordic Association of Agricultural Science (NJF), The Nordic Joint Committee for Agricultural and Food Research (NKJ) & NordForsk joint webinar.
22 April 2024, 13-15 EEST / 12-14 CEST / 10-12 Icelandic time.

Agriculture in Nordic-Baltic region shares common challenges such as short growing season and cold temperatures. Research collaboration within Nordic-Baltic region plays an important role in providing solutions on how the agricultural sector can respond to these challenges and valorize new opportunities. NJF, NKJ and NordForsk will organize a joint webinar on Nordic-Baltic collaboration in agricultural research. The webinar will highlight the Nordic-Baltic agricultural research and research collaboration as well as introduce an upcoming Nordic-Baltic joint conference on resolving environmental and climate change issues in agriculture that will be organized in Autumn 2024. Further information and registration.

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) workshop
2024-04-25 - 2024-04-26 | Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki, FInland
Further information on the event page (click here)

International Continued Scientific Conference: Environmental sustainability in a climate change context: challenges and adaptation
2024-03-26 | Online
International continued scientific conference ”Environmental sustainability in a climate change context: challenges and adaptation”
5th section: “Advancements in technology and innovation for sustainable and resilient agriculture”
March 26, 2024, h. 10 – 12 a.m. Eastern European Time
On March 26, the 5th section of the continuous online scientific conference entitled “Advancements in technology and innovation for sustainable and resilient agriculture” will be held. Three presentations will be presented by dr. agr. Livija Zarina, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics (AREI), Priekuli Research Centre, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jonas Volungevičius with coauthors, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Vilnius University, and dr. Rita Armonienė, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry.
To participate in the conference, please register at the link below. Only to registered participants will be sent a link to join the event.
Registration for participation: https://forms.gle/3Kdd1yyTsxfZbFTQ8
Contacts: agne.versuliene@lammc.lt, danute.karcauskiene@lammc.lt
For further information please visit the Programme

Sustainable food systems in a climate-changing environment
2023-12-05 | Amalievej 20, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
PROGRAMME
14.30 Welcome, Asmus Gamdrup Jensen, Food historian, Kost Studio
14.45- 16.00 Panel discussion with:
Jarkko Niemi, President of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Science and Professor in Economics of Sustainable Animal Production at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Mickey Gjerris, Associate Professor in Bio-ethics, University of CopenhagenKasper Hulthin, Entrepreneur, Funding Partner of Kost Studio & Kost Capital
Nima Tisdall, CEO of Nordic Makers, Founder of Blue Lobster, and GUDP Board Member of the Danish Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
16.00-16.30 Q&A session
16.30 Closing followed by a cocktail reception
The seminar is free of charge, but please register in advance. For further details, please click here

Trends in regional development in the EU countries
2023-10-20 | Videoconference
9th International Scientific Conference
TRENDS IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE EU COUNTRIES 2023
CONFERENCE
October 20, 2023 (videoconference)
Warsaw (Poland) /Jelgava (Latvia)
View conference programme and instructions to participate in the video conference.

ISESSAH 2023 conference: Understanding stakeholder behaviour and socio-economic implications of practices and policies of animal health
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15 | Helsinki, Finland
ISESSAH conference 2023
Helsinki, Finland, 13th – 15th of June 2023
Call for abstracts — Programme — Registration, accommodation & getting there
Photo: Tapio Haaja / Pixabay
Background
Social, economic and environmental sustainability of animal production is becoming an increasingly important issue for farmers and other supply chain actors. Outbreaks of exotic animal diseases and presence of production diseases and endemic diseases can severely reduce economic profitability and productivity of farming and cause disruptions in the market. Hence, disease prevention, risk management and control measures such as biosecurity and good farming practices, disease control programs, containment and eradication of disease outbreaks must be selected to control and/or mitigate animal disease and their negative consequences Various economic and other societal and social-psychological circumstances influence decisions that farmers, veterinarians, government authorities and other stakeholders make regarding animal health.
Therefore, when suggesting animal disease control programs or animal health promoting programs, economics and other social sciences should be taken into account. These can contribute to our understanding of what are the most preferred ways to control animal health. New insights and theoretical and methodological advances are needed to better understand the behaviour and choices made by farmers, veterinarians, policymakers, food operators, consumers and other relevant actors. The International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health (ISESSAH) aims to improve animal health and welfare policies, programme and projects through more nuanced use of concepts and tools available in economics and social science disciplines. The annual conference is a key tool to promote this objective.
Conference theme and programme
The 2023 ISESSAH conference will be held 13th – 15th of June 2023 Viikki campus in Helsinki, Finland (address: Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland).
The 2023 ISESSAH conference will be held 13th – 15th of June 2023 Viikki campus in Helsinki, Finland (address: Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland). The main theme of the conference is “Understanding stakeholder behaviour and socio-economic implications of practices and policies of animal health”.
The target group of the conference includes researchers, graduate students, other academics, government officials, advisors, veterinarians, industry representatives and all others interested in economics and social sciences applied to animal health.
Conference programme will include keynote presentation from the leading scientists in economics and social sciences, invited talks of key stakeholder representatives in the livestock sector, and oral and poster presentations given by conference participants. The keynote speakers will be announced in January 2023. Social programme, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner, will also be organised. The conference will be organised by ISESSAH in collaboration with the Nordic Association of Agricultural Science (NJF), Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and University of Helsinki.
Invited Speakers
Invited speakers of ISESSAH 2023 include

Jens Rommel, Associate Professor at Decision-making and Managerial Behavior research group, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Beth Clark, Lecturer in Food Marketing at School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Arnaud Rault, Researcher focussing on animal health economics at Oniris, BIOEPAR (Biology, Epidemiology and Risk Analysis of Animal Health unit), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
Taina Aaltonen, Deputy Director General at Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland, Chief Veterinary officer of Finland and delegate of Finland to the World Organisation for Animal Health
Ina Toppari, Executive manager at Animal Health ETT r.a., Finland.

The schedule of the conference is presented below. The registration desk opens at 11:00 on June 13th. The conference will be finished by 14 o’clock on June 15th.

Guidelines for preparing presentations and posters
Each oral presentation is allocated 15 minutes timeslot, which includes maximum 12 minutes for the presentation and at least 3 minutes for questions. Please plan your presentation according to this schedule. To help to set up the presentations on computers, please send your presentation by email to njf.nordicagriculture(at)gmail.com in the day before your session.
Posters should be set up by before the start of the poster session and displayed until the end of the conference. Preferred poster size is A0 (width 841 mm × height 1 189). Pushpins will be provided on poster stands. During the poster session, please stay close to your poster and be prepared to answer questions concerning your study.
Flash presentations are short presentations given on selected posters. A flash presentation includes a short introduction (three minutes) of the main points of your poster in the dedicated session in the lecture room B1. Maximum two slides or an electronic copy of your poster will be displayed on the screen during the flash presentation. To help to set up the flash presentations on computers, please send your flash presentation by email to njf.nordicagriculture(at)gmail.com in the day before your session.
The 2023 ISESSAH conference will be held 13th – 15th of June 2023 Viikki campus in Helsinki, Finland (address: Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland). Sessions will take place in lecture rooms B1 and B2. Welcome reception will be organised in lobby area 173A (meeting centre) and conference dinner at Restaurant Kappeli (Eteläesplanadi 1, Helsinki). Participants may use meeting room A169 in the meeting centre for finalizing their presentations (computers are not provided). For additional queries, please consult the registration desk.

ISESSAH 2023 conference on economics and social sciences in animal health and welfare
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15 | Helsinki, Finland
Abstract submission to the ISESSAH 2023 conference is OPEN
Conference theme: Understanding stakeholder behaviour and socio-economic implications of practices and policies of animal health
For further details, please see ISESSAH 2023 call for abstracts (click here).

Photo: Tapio Haaja / Pixabay

Environmental sustainability in a climate change context: challenges and adaptation
2023-03-16 | On-line
The conference is organised by Lithuanian Society of NJF. Participation to the conference is free of charge, but the attendants are requested to register to the event. The official language is English.
For programme, registration and instruction to join the conference on-line, please click here

NJF Nordic Agricultural Congress 2022 - Onward in Agriculture
2022-09-27 - 2022-09-29 | Iceland
Selfoss, Iceland, September 27-29, 2022
The Nordic Association of Agricultural Science, NJF, welcomes participants to our 27th International Congress on Nordic Agriculture. Besides gathering participants of the Nordic Hemisphere, this congress also celebrates a centennial jubilee. Our first NJF congress was held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1921 and last time we visited Iceland was in 1995. We have thus waited 27 years to return to our Icelandic colleagues and do hope that participants all over the world are curious to meet and experience the hospitality of Iceland.
More information on the event here.

RISK ANALYSIS SEMINAR and SIMETAR WORKSHOP
2022-08-01 - 2022-08-03
Dept. of Economics and Society in NIBIO will arrange a three days’ workshop dealing with use of the software SIMETAR (SIMulations and Econometrics To Analyze Risks) in “Store møterom”, Raveien 9, Ås from August 1-3 2022. SIMETAR is an Excel Add-in and good knowledge in using Excel in addition to interest in conducting risk analysis is required to benefit from the workshop. The target group is researchers, post-docs and scholarship holders with requirements to conduct risk analysis for publishing scientific journal articles.
Dr Keith Schumann will lecture at the workshop. Before the workshop at around 9:30 Am he will give a 2 h open presentation entitled “Risk Analysis, Simulation, and Spreadsheet Modelling: Applications in Crop Insurance”. The seminar will also be streamed on Teams.
Dr Keith Schumann is Senior Vice President of AgriLogic Consulting, located at the campus of Texas A&M in College Station. He also participated in a similar workshop, organized by NILF (Norwegian Institute of Agricultural Economics Research) in cooperation with NJF, which was held in Ås in 2004.
More information about the workshop and registration etc. can be found here:
https://nibio.pameldingssystem.no/simetar

Soil and water conservation under changing climate in Northern or high altitude conditions
2022-05-04 - 2022-05-05 | Ås, Norway
Invitation to conference
On behalf of IUSS (International Union of Soil Science), Norwegian Society of Soil Science (Norsk Jordforening), ESSC (European Society for Soil Conservation), NLF (Nordic Association for Agricultural Science), Norwegian extension Service (NLR), NIBIO and NMBU and the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the International seminar: Soil and water conservation under changing climate in Northern or high altitude conditions.
The seminar will be hosted in Ås, Norway from 4- 5th May 2022 with an excursion on the 6 th May.
Deadlines:
Abstract submission. 31 January 2022
Decisions of oral /poster presentation: 15 February 2022
Early registration: 20 March 2022
Final Registration: 19 April 2022
Soil and water conservation under changing climate in Northern or high altitude conditions. (pameldingssystem.no)

NJF 27th Congress 2021
2021-06-01
The 27th NJF Congress will be held in 2021. Date and country will be decided in autumn 2019.

Advances and Innovations in Agricultural Engineering. NJF, EurAgEng, Agromek joint seminar
2021-01-19 - 2021-01-20 | Herning, Denmark
The seminar is cancelled due to the restrictions caused by the corona virus.
Due to the success from 2014, 2016 and 2018, we continue to arrange the 4th seminar within technology linked to the Agromek Fair, focusing on digitalization, precision farming and innovation within agricultural engineering. This time the conference runs in January the 19th and 20th of January 2021. The participant will have the opportunity to visit the Agromek Fair.
See here for more detailed information.

Cycle of multidisciplinary virtual seminars, organised by the Economy – Education and Society section, NJF
2020-12-02, 2020-11-04, 2020-10-07 | Virtual (Adobe Connect, https://ac.vdu.lt/vk1)
Seminars have been organised first Wednesday each month (except summer holidays in July and August) since May 6, 2020 from 12:00 to 13:30 Central European time (13:00 to 14:30 Eastern European time). The schedule of each seminar include two 15-20 minutes presentations with possibility for 20 minutes discussion after each of them. It is welcome participation of senior and other researchers, including PhD and master’s students as speakers, and all other researchers and students as guests.
See here for more detailed information.

Nordic-Baltic Vegetable meeting 2020
2020-11-09 | Kristianstad, Sweden
NJF plans to organise a Nordic-Baltic vegetable meeting in Kristianstad, November 2020.
The event that runs from Monday evening until Tuesday evening will be a meeting opportunity for farmers, advisors, companies and the vegetable food sector to present recent findings and exchange ideas within the vegetable sector. The Vegetable meeting will be followed by a N-B Fruit and Berries Meeting.

Sustainable fruit and berry cultivation
2020-09-09 - 2020-09-10 | Polli, Estonia
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the international scientific conference on “Sustainable fruit and berry cultivation” during September 9-10, 2020 at Polli Horticultural Research Centre of Estonian University of Life Sciences, Polli, Estonia. With the conference we mark the 75 years from the beginning of pomological research and 100 years of horticultural education in Polli.
Abstract submission until April 1, 2020.
More information: Polli100 conference invitation_2020

Buckwheat lecture in Sweden by Professor Ivan Kreft
2019-09-23 | Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala
NJF welcomes Prof Kreft to have a lecture on buckwheat research in Europe.
The lecture will be held in English at the SLU campus in Uppsala.
NJF members are welcome to participate without fee. Non-members will be invoiced 250 SEK for participation.
Please contact Fredrik.Fogelberg@ri.se for more information.

Prof. Dr. Ivan Kreft, Dipl. Eng. Agr.

Scientist
The research interest of Prof. Ivan Kreft Kreft are the genetic, physiological, and other basics of quality and nutritional value of grains of buckwheat, barley, spelt, wheat, maize, beans and pumpkins, in particular the content and distribution of flavonoids (including rutin) and other secondary plant metabolites, selenium, zinc, protein, starch and fibre, as well as ultrastructural characteristics of seeds. His research and teaching experience includes visiting professorships in Japan (Food Science Dep. at Kyoto University, and Faculty of Nutrition of Kobe-Gakuin University) and China (Shanxi University in Taiyuan). He has authored numerous scientific papers in journals such as Journal of Experimental Botany, the New Phytologist, the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Food Chemistry, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology, and Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine. The scientific research findings of I. Kreft were incorporated in the development of novel high-quality food products in Slovenia, Denmark and Japan.

NJF Conference on Horticulture
2019-06-10 - 2019-06-13 | Tartu, Estonia
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to invite you to our NJF Conference on Horticulture in Tallinn, Estonia on June 10th -13th 2019.
Link to Conference website!
As you know the NJF – Nordic Association of Agricultural Science was founded in 1918 to promote scientific cooperation cross the borders of Scandinavia. Today, a century later we are still committed to this mission to encourage the exchange of knowledge in agriculture between our Nordic-Baltic countries.
The horticultural conference in Estonia in 2019 will be an excellent opportunity to present ongoing research and collaborations within a wide range of topics, It will also be a possibility to meet colleagues and find new partners for development of horticulture in a broad perspective.
Although the conference has a Nordic-Baltic perspective, we welcome participants from all countries to take part and enjoy the hospitality of our Estonian colleagues and their beautiful country.
Welcome in June 2019 to Estonia!

Fredrik Fogelberg
President of NJF
