Senior Researcher Päivi Soppela from the Arctic Centre has been chosen for a Chair for a Circumpolar Agriculture Association (CAA). Soppela’s research focus on how animals, human and livelihoods adapt to the global change and Arctic circumstances.

The aim of the CCA is to enhance exchange of knowledge and experiences between circumpolar countries in the fields of agriculture and wild food resources. The partner countries are Iceland, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, the USA and Russia. The 10th Circumpolar Agriculture Conference will take place in Rovaniemi on 13–15 March, 2019.

Further information:

Päivi Soppela
paivi.soppela(at)ulapland.fi, +358 40 013 8805

Circumpolar Agriculture Conference: www.ulapland.fi/CAC2019