News 2017
Emilia Schmitt to receive the Hans Vontobel award 2018 for her outstanding dissertation
We congratulate Emilia on winning the prestigious Hans Vontobel award for her dissertation on "Comparing local and global Food - a Definition Framework and Sustainability Assessment".
Highly Cited Researchers 2017
Congratulations to Johan! He has been included in the list of «Highly Cited Researchers 2017».
Janina Dierks receives best presentation award
Congrats to Janina for winning the best presentation award at the isocycles 2017 conference at Monte Verita, Switzerland.
Into the greenhouse: Making research edible
The Edible Research team welcomed young students into the greenhouse at ETH to learn about crop production systems and value chains and to better understand their role as consumers. Learn more here
Some insights into how climate change will affect the Swiss agricultural arena
Melanie Glaus, a farmer from Schlossrued (AG), and Johan discuss the Downloadimpacts of climate change on Swiss agriculture (PDF, 3.2 MB)vertical_align_bottom (in UFA-Revue, in German). Johan explains that with more extreme weather events occurring, dryer periods can decrease productivity of crops while irregular, heavy rains can increase erosion.
Pub in Nature Climate Change
Is erosion a carbon sink or source? A new study published in Nature Climate Change co-authored by Johan sheds further light on the question and they find that 1/3 of the carbon emissions from land cover change is offset by human-induced erosion. For more information click external pageherecall_made.
Samuel Hauenstein to receive ETH medal
We congratulate Samuel for his outsanding work writing a Master Thesis that wins the ETH medal. Only very few students at ETH are honored with this reward. Here the Downloadlink (PDF, 44 KB)vertical_align_bottom to the executive summary of his thesis "Assessing the resilience of the tef value chain in Ethiopia".
Press release on PlosOne paper
A nice press release on a PlosOne paper published with colleagues of Iowa State Univeristy. For more information click external pageherecall_made.