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.
Our disciplines have their own websites: agrotechnology, animal science, environmental soil science, and plant production sciences.
We are responsible for university-level bachelor’s and master’s education in the agricultural sciences in Finland. Our teaching is based on research, and our researchers provide instruction in bachelor’s and master’s programmes, as well as the doctoral programmes organised by the doctoral schools.
Director Pekka Uimari and Deputy Director Mari Pihlatie