SABPH-26 2026 - 51st HELSINKI World Conference on Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity & Public Health (SABPH-26) April 27-30, 2026 Helsinki (Finland)

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Category Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity & Public Health

Deadline: April 01, 2026 | Date: April 27, 2026-April 29, 2026

Venue/Country: Helsinki, Finland

Updated: 2025-12-19 17:08:00 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Topics of interest for submission include any topics related to:

Nutrition and Food Security

Agrobiodiversity for Dietary Diversity: Promoting the cultivation and consumption of a wide variety of crops, traditional, and indigenous food species (agrobiodiversity) to ensure a wider range of essential vitamins and minerals in the human diet, combating malnutrition.

Nutrient Density in Food: Investigating how sustainable farming practices (like soil health management) affect the nutritional content and quality of food crops, potentially leading to more nutrient-dense food.

Food Security and Resilience: The role of diverse, climate-resilient crop and livestock varieties in ensuring a stable food supply, especially in the face of climate change, pests, and diseases, which directly impacts public health outcomes like hunger and poverty.

Sustainable Healthy Diets: Developing dietary guidelines that are not only beneficial for human health (e.g., lower risk of Non-Communicable Diseases like heart disease) but are also environmentally sustainable and promote biodiversity (e.g., plant-based diets with animal products from low-impact systems).

Environmental Health and Safety

Pesticide and Chemical Residues: The reduction of chemical inputs (pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers) through sustainable methods like Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and organic farming. This directly reduces the risk of chemical exposure for farm workers and consumers, safeguarding public health.

Water and Soil Quality: Sustainable agriculture practices (e.g., cover cropping, reduced tillage) that enhance soil health, prevent erosion, and reduce nutrient and chemical runoff into water sources. This protects both aquatic biodiversity and human health by ensuring cleaner drinking water.

Antibiotic Resistance: Investigating the link between the overuse of antibiotics in industrial livestock production and the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, which poses a global threat to public health. Sustainable livestock management and reducing the need for routine antibiotics are key.

Ecosystem Services for Pest and Disease Control: Using natural biological control provided by diverse ecosystems (predatory insects, healthy soil microorganisms) to manage crop pests, reducing the reliance on chemical treatments.

Sustainable Farming Systems and Practices

Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: The study and implementation of farming systems that intentionally leverage ecological processes and biodiversity to improve productivity, soil fertility, and resilience (e.g., agroforestry, crop rotation, intercropping).

Pollinator Health: Conserving and restoring habitat for wild and managed pollinators (like bees and butterflies) within agricultural landscapes. Pollinator decline, often linked to intensive farming and pesticide use, threatens both biodiversity and the production of diverse, nutritious crops.

Genetic Resources and Conservation: The ex-situ (seed banks) and in-situ (on-farm) conservation of diverse plant and animal genetic resources, which are the fundamental biological resources needed for future food system resilience and adaptation to new health threats.

Zoonotic Disease Risk: Analyzing how changes in land use, deforestation, and the intensification of livestock farming can increase the spillover risk of zoonotic diseases (diseases transmitted from animals to humans), and how sustainable practices can create buffers.

Social, Economic, and Policy Connections

Farmer and Community Livelihoods: The economic viability of sustainable, biodiversity-friendly farming, and how it can contribute to stable rural incomes and community health.

Policy Integration: Developing integrated policies that explicitly connect agriculture, environment, and health sectors, moving away from "siloed" approaches that address these issues separately.

Consumer-Producer Linkages: Creating direct market relationships (farmers' markets, Community Supported Agriculture) that increase transparency, reward farmers for sustainable, biodiversity-positive practices, and provide consumers with access to local, diverse, and healthy foods.