Sustainable agri-food value chains and bioeconomy

Education facts

Code: FÖ0466

The agri-food value chain includes the decisions, the processes, the organizations and institutions, that begin from farm inputs and extend to the actors and linkages that are involved between the farm and the consumer’s fork. With this course the students will develop an understanding of value chains and agribusiness in the agri-food industry and the bioeconomy. Sustainable domestic and global food chains, short and industrial chains, and networks will be analysed. Empirical examples from Swedish, European and international as well as agri-food value chains in developing countries are used as illustrations Theories and conceptual perspectives are drawn from microeconomics, industrial organisation, strategic management and behaviour, new institutional economics, transaction cost economics, agency theory and social network analysis.

Entry requirements

Knowledge equivalent of 120 credits, of which 90 credits in Social Science or 90 credits in Natural Science, and English 6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Sustainable agri-food value chains and bioeconomy

  Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  Alnarp

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %