In the coming decades, research in the agricultural sciences will be characterised simultaneously by the demand for a sufficient food supply for a growing population and concern for climate change. The strain on nature, the sufficiency of natural resources, biodiversity loss, energy shortages and changes in diets pose challenges to the sustainability of the food production and consumption system.
Our multidisciplinary research aims to promote basic agricultural research and to expand the common ground between basic and applied research. Our research is internationally distinguished and high quality, as well as domestically important, since it benefits agriculture and horticulture, and related livelihoods.