Technovisions for Food Security as Sweden Restores Its Civil Defence CAMILLA ERIKSSON, KLARA FISCHER and EBBA ULFBECKER After three decades of demobilising the Swedish defence sector following the end of the Cold War, Sweden recently revived civil defence planning, including new instructions to plan for food security in the event of war. This policy shift has raised questions as to how farming’s vulnerability to disruptions differs today from in the Cold War era, as well as how this vulnerability might best be mitigated. This article presents and discusses key vulnerabilities in Swedish farming as perceived by farmers and some technological solutions to these envisioned by rural entrepreneurs. The focus is on technologies that could increase farm- level self-suffciency and decrease vulnerability to trade disruptions. Using a sociotechnical imaginaries framework, to which we contribute the concept of ‘technovisions’, we highlight how farmers’ perceptions of potential technological solutions are embedded in social, material and moral values. We conclude that the technovisions presented, based on the production of renewable fuels, can contribute to reducing dependency on imported fuel and fertilisers and thus decrease vulnerability, and that these technovisions are placed frmly within a productionist imaginary of how food security can be achieved. Keywords: Civil defence, food security, sociotechnical imaginaries, technovision, renewable fuels Camilla Eriksson (corresponding author), Swedish Defence Research Agency, Department of Defence Analysis, Stockholm SE-164 90, Sweden. E-mail: camilla.eriksson@foi.se Klara Fischer, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden. E-mail: klara.fscher@slu.se Ebba Ulfbecker, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden. E-mail: ebba.ulfbecker@gmail.com Science, Technology & Society 25:1 (2020): 106–123 SAGE Publications Los Angeles/London/New Delhi/Singapore/Washington DC/Melbourne DOI: 10.1177/0971721819889924 Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank all interviewees who volunteered to take part in this project, as well as Sofa Sollén Norlin and Josefn Heed, who participated in the interviews with farmers and provided valuable input to the analysis. Further, they thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments which improved the article. They extend their appreciation to the Uppsala STS seminar series, Uppsala University, for valuable input to this article.