The conference is the tenth in line of international conferences organized within the framework of CAA (Circumpolar Agriculture Association), aimed at people involved in northern agriculture such as researchers, practitioners, administrators, managers, policy-makers and students. The conference will address a bottom-up approach and new thinking of local agriculture, food production and rural development in the northern areas. The goal is to open up and discuss versatile meanings of circumpolar agriculture and call for new thinking to address its topical challenges and opportunities. In accordance with the theme of Finland’s Chairmanship period of the Arctic Council, UN Sustainable Development Goals will be highlighted in the program.

The conference is hosted by the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland together with the Natural Resources Institute Finland; other co-organisers are ProAgria Lapland, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Regional Council of Lapland, Reindeer Herders’ Association and Metsähallitus.


Important dates:

June 2018:  Call for abstracts and registration opens
17 September 2018: Deadline for abstract submissions
15 October 2018: Notification of acceptance including decisions about oral/poster presentation sent to authors
30 November 2018: Deadline for early-bird registration fee and presenters
15 February 2019: Deadline for regular registration fee
13 - 15 March 2019: CONFERENCE DATES

 

For more information, see the conference homepage.