Current emissions are likely to produce substantial impacts for the agricultural sector and the salience for adapting to these changes in the agricultural sector is increasing. While Nordic agriculture is faced with both opportunities and challenges from climate change, a still developing political and institutional structure in combination with an extreme drought during the summer of 2018 is exacerbating existing long-term trends of financial pressure in the sector, particularly for meat and dairy farmers. Previous research has highlighted that there is a relative lack of studies attempting to understand the decision-making process of climate change adaptation and there is a currently a growing field of research focusing on the barriers to adaptation faced by farmers. This study primarily used Grothmann and Patt’s MCCAPP model in order to determine what factors influenced farmers decision-making when deciding to adapt to climate change. The results of this study found that the predominant barrier to adaptation among farmers were uncertainty regarding future climatic impacts, which resulted in a lower confidence in adaptation strategy efficacy to produce financial stability and returns. Climate mitigation was also identified as a potential trade-off when pursuing adaptation strategies. To a lesser degree, farmers also attested to farm-level differences, such as the availability of water resources as impacting the strategies that they were able to pursue. Opportunities to facilitate adaptation through institutional support was identified, as farmers both require better information regarding adaptation strategies and subsequent trade-offs and synergies it might create in relation to farmers priority issues such as financial viability and climate mitigation. More effective means of financial assistance to counteract the effects of extreme climatic conditions was also identified. Lastly, social capital was an important facilitator of adaptation implementation, but one that is threatened due to the continuingly deteriorating socio-economic conditions that farmers experience in their sector.

The notion that the world's food system is in crisis is becoming more common. Such arguments point to a slew of problems, ranging from malnutrition, poverty, and obesity to industrial farming, overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, low food security, environmental destruction, biodiversity depletion, animal health, as well as corporate domination and a lack of resilience. The rates of soil erosion vastly transcend that of soil formation, implying that a third of the soils have a lifetime of fewer than 200 years. The current interest in Regenerative agriculture has taken root in this sense, where any part of farming, distribution, food processing, and consumption is being debated. The concept of “regenerative agriculture" has been an accepted practice for a long time, but there has been a renewed interest in it in recent years. This study thus aims to identify the frictions and tractions for regenerative agriculture in Sweden, from a producer perspective, to investigate the future of sustainable agriculture in the country. This study is based on two sources of data: the first and principal are semi-structured interviews with Swedish regenerative producers; the second is a survey conducted by Swedish regenerative producers. The results showed an evident dissatisfaction with the Swedish agricultural system regarding subsidies and regulations as well as a strong personal ideological motivation for regenerative practices amongst the participants. The results argue that a restructure of the Swedish agricultural system is crucial if innovative and sustainable alternatives, such as Regenerative agriculture, are to thrive and the national sustainability- and food security goals are to be achieved.