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Faculty Organic Agricultural Sciences
Institution
Section overview
Description
Research and Education in the area of Organic Agriculture as well as sustainable rural development with regional and international references
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Application of naturally occurring antagonists of the cabbage white fly (Aleyrodes pro-letella) in organic brassica crops in combination with netting
- Biodiversity Exploratories as a Bio-cultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future
- bioenergetic role of biodiversity on the intensity and spectral calibration parameters of oat grass meadow vegetation
- Collaborative project: Biogas plants in organic agriculture; subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Selection of lentil (Lens culinaris) genotypes suited for sustainable cropping systems
- Comparison of triticale varieties and different wheat varieties in terms of part and whole plant yields for the production of biogas and ethanol, or thermal / recycling ( SunFuel)
- Development of winter pea (Pisum sativum L.) genotypes for mixed cropping under conditions of organic farming
- Economic evaluation of breeding strategies in pastoral production systems to improve animal health and animal welfare
- Examination of the succession situation of farms inside and outside of farmers’ families in organic farming and development of measures to support the process of succession
- Farmer Consumer Partnership
- Free range for hens raised organically
- GlobE: RELOAD - Minimizing post yield losses - value creation in East African´s food supply chains, Partner A
- Is price the main purchasing barrier for organic products? – Analysis of the willingness to pay for organic food and consumers’ buying behaviour
- Monitoring and assisting transition from dehorned to horned dairy herds or from tying to loose housing systems with horned cows involving demonstration farms as a basis for qualified advisory services for dairy cattle farming
- Musa-pathogen interactions - Localization and biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites of the type of phenylphenalenones in banana
- Nature's contributions to people in restored landscapes in western Rwanda
- Re-Circulation of free-range husbandry of laying hens: substrates and additives in close vicinity
- Reconciling fragmented and contested landscapes
- Trade-off in food consumption: conventional and local, organic and local or organic from far away regions?
Involved in research projects
- Development and cultivation of locally adapted cereal populations in Hesse
- Evaluation and acceptance of heterogeneous populations of winter wheat in organic value chains
- Improving small farm production and marketing of bananas under trees: Resource partitioning, living soils, cultivar choice and marketing strategies
- Plant-animal material flows and production efficiencies in urban and peri-urban agriculture of a West African city
Contact
Faculty Organic Agricultural Sciences
Steinstr. 19
D-37213 Witzenhausen
Hesse
Germany
Phone: +49 5542 98-1211
Fax: +49 5542 98-1309
Email: dekfb11(@)wiz.uni-kassel.de
