Sweden’s farmers are caught in a perfect storm of high costs, low profitability, extreme weather, generational shifts and growing regulatory burdens. At the same time, their role is crucial to the country’s food security, especially in an era of geopolitical uncertainty, climate change and public health challenges. The challenges are both systemic and complex. What role does the public sector need to play in a systemic transformation that secures Sweden’s future food security and breaks with today’s fragmented governance?
To explore this, we invite Anna Olofsson, director general of the Swedish Board of Agriculture, and Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Governor of Västerbotten County, to a strategic conversation. We discuss what systems leadership means in practice and what shifts are required for the public sector to move from a silo to a collaborative approach, together with producers, consumers and other societal actors, and thereby strengthen a more resilient, healthy and sustainable food system.
Participating
Helene Hellmark Knutsson, County Governor and Chairman of the Board of SustainGov, Västerbotten County Administrative Board
Anna Olofsson, director general, Swedish Board of Agriculture
Mariell Juhlin, Program Manager, SustainGov
About SustainGov
Read more about the SustainGov program on their website.
Registration
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