Hohenheim Online Seminar "Rethinking Agriculture"

Online Seminar in April – September 2021

Agriculture faces severe challenges such as increasing food demands, climate change, soil degradation, resource scarcity and biodiversity loss. At the same time, agriculture experiences a crisis of social acceptance due to its social and environmental impacts and its consequences for human and animal health. The time thus seems ripe for radically new ways of doing agriculture that promote biodiversity and ecosystem functions, without exporting the ecological and social footprint.

The Hohenheim Seminar wants to promote “out-off-the box” thinking and discussions among scientists within the University of Hohenheim. We invite students, academic partners and the interested public to these inspiring talks.

12.04	Can agriculture feed the world and still save the Earth?	Prof. Dr. David Tilman University of Minnesota, USA
19.04	Social-ecology for healthy landscapes and people	Prof. Dr. Serge Morand Kasetsart University, Thailand, CNRS-CIRAD, France
3.05	Make ruminants green again: how can sustainable intensification and agroecology converge for a better future?	Prof. Dr. Bertrand Dumont French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France
10.05	Economic and political conditions for a biodiversity-friendly agriculture – An evaluation of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lakner University of Rostock, Germany
31.05	Darwinian agriculture: where does nature´s wisdon lie?	Prof. Dr. Ford Denison University of Minnesota, USA
28.06	What artificial intelligence and robotics could and couldn't offer for rethinking agricultural systems?	Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
5.07	Territorial food systems and collaborative agri-food chains: their role in transforming agriculture	Prof. Dr. Moya Kneafsey University of Coventry, UK
12.07	Tweaks to transformations: using ecological intensification and diversification for healthy people – healthy planet	Prof. Dr. Claire Kremen University of British Columbia, Canada
14.09	Understanding and managing connections in land-use and food systems	Prof. Dr. Claudia Bieling University of Hohenheim, Germany
14.09	Novel pathways for biodiversity at field and landscape scale	Prof. Dr. Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim, Germany
14.09	Eco-evolutionary agriculture - new opportunities for breeding	Prof. Dr. Karl Schmid University of Hohenheim, Germany
14.09	Livestock in diversified agricultural systems	Prof. Dr. Markus Rodehutscord University of Hohenheim, Germany
14.09	Digital revolution on the farm	Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Paraforos Geisenheim University, Germany