SGA Annual Conference
Every year the SGA holds a scientific symposium on a topical issue in the agriculture and food system from the perspective of agricultural economics and rural sociology.
The symposium serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new research projects from Switzerland and abroad, and offers participants a chance to exchange information and views on topical issues.
The focus of the intended discourse is the applicability and further development of the findings gained from science, and their implications for the scientific, economic, administrative, policy, education and extension sectors.
Submitted contributions undergo a one-stage review process. This scientific review is conducted by two anonymous reviewers. The SGA awards a prize for the best poster and best presentation at its annual conference.
The languages of the conference are German, French and English. No translation or interpreting takes place.
SGA Annual Conference 2024
On 12 June 2024 a half-day SGA Annual Meeting will take place in the morning before the EAAE-Seminar, of which the SGA is a co-organiser. The usual two-day meeting is therefore suspended in favour of the EAAE-Seminar and will take place again in 2025. The programme will be published here closer to the event.
187th EAAE-Seminar
12-14 June 2024 in Frick, Switzerland
Changes in food production and consumption are key to limiting global warming, soil erosion and biodiversity loss on the one hand and human health on the other. The necessary transformation processes are complex and require both a food system perspective aligning sustainable food production systems with healthy diets and coherent food policies across the different dimensions of agriculture, environment and human health. Thus, we face two societal challenges:
- to make food production more sustainable and food consumption more healthy, and
- to go through a political process of transforming the food system.
These societal challenges of redesigning food systems have important implications for social scientists (including economics). Thus, a thorough rethinking of the role of research in food system transformation is a crucial step. Follow the link for further information.