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Published: August 2023

Mechanisation in smallholder organic production

Report

Kanner E, Harrigan T, Mkomwa S et al.

Training handbook on African organic farms.

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: August 2023

The state and evolution of organic fruit and vegetables: production and market at a world scale

Book (chapter)

Willer H, Meier C, Schlatter B & Trávníček J

ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1367

Latest available data on certified organic agriculture worldwide from 190 countries shows that in 2020, almost 75 million hectares of agricultural land (1.6% of the total farmland) were under organic management.

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: July 2023

Bittersweet fruits of ‘miracle growth’: Identifying poverty and labour dynamics in coffee heartlands

Report

Illien P, Birachi E et al.

CDE Policy Brief, No. 20

Based on evidence from the coffee heartlands of Rwanda and Laos, this policy brief from CDE highlights tools for measuring the impacts of agricultural growth on poverty in rural areas.

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: July 2023

Key results from the FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide 2023

Report

Trávníček J, Schlatter B & Willer H

Three ppt presentations - Part 1: Global data 2021 and survey background; Part 2: Land use and crops 2021; Part 3 : Organic agriculture in the regions 2021.

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: June 2023

Article

Critchley W, Harari N, Mollee E, Mekdaschi-Studer R & Eichenberger J

Land 12(6)

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: May 2023

On the way towards more sustainable land-based investments in Laos

Video

CDE researchers have worked with the government of Laos for the last few years, taking stock of land concessions and studying their quality, among other things. Today, a custom designed national digital information system enables Laos to effectively manage its concessions.

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: May 2023

IGS North-South Tracer Study 2022: Decolonizing a PhD Programme and Beyond

Report

Karrer Laurenzia, Steinböck Camilla, Trechsel Lilian Julia, da Silva Tamara, Breu Thomas

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: May 2023

Soil carbon sequestration under certified organic management in Albania, Serbia and Ukraine within SECO funded organic projects

Report

Müller, Adrian; Steffens Markus, Bernet Thomas, Richter Toralf, Eisenring Tobias

Working paper

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: April 2023

A multi-methods approach for assessing how conserving biodiversity interacts with other sustainable development goals in Nepal

Article

Adhikari B, Urbach D, Chettri N et al.

in: Sustainable Development

Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern

Published: April 2023

New insights towards breeding for mixed cropping of spring pea and barley to increase yield and yield stability

Article

Haug B, Messmer MM, Enjalbert J et al.

Field Crops Research 297, 108923

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: March 2023

Greenhouse farming and employment: Evidence from Ecuador

Article

Article

Dissertation

Giger Marcus

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: December 2022

Ist der Biolandbau eine Lösung für den globalen Süden?

Article

Huber Beate, Bautze David, Goldmann Eva

BioTOPP, 2022, 5, pp. 16-19

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: December 2022

Research-implementation organisations and their role for sustainable development

Article

Saric Jasmina, Breu Thomas, Fokou Gilbert, Gass Salome-Joëlle, Kiteme Boniface, Masanja Honorati, Utzinger Jürg, Zeleke Gete, Käser Fabian

Sustainable Development. 2022;1–16

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) KFPE Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)

Published: December 2022

High quality organic resources are most efficient in stabilizing soil organic carbon: Evidence from four long-term experiments in Kenya

Report

Laub Moritz et al

EGUsphere Preprint Repository

ETH Zürich

Published: November 2022

Report

Dietemann Lauren, Kanner Elsa, Rüegg Johanna

Factsheet 2022 | No. 1476

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: October 2022

Future trends and competencies for the Swiss international cooperation sector

Report

cinfo - The Swiss Center of Competence for International Cooperation / NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation - ETH Zürich

ETH Zürich

Published: October 2022

New training manual for Africa on organic poultry husbandry

Book (chapter)

Brenninkmeyer Christine, Ulmann Selina, Kanner Elsa, Quander Nele, Maurer Veronika

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: October 2022

“First we eat and then we sell”: participatory guarantee systems for alternative sustainability certification of Bolivian agri-food products

Article

Jacobi Johanna, Toledo Vásquez Daniela G., Solar Alvarez Jimena M., Bürgi Bonanomi Elisabeth

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) ETH Zürich

Published: October 2022

Enabling sustainable cassava root and starch yield increase through scheduled planting/harvesting and appropriate smallholder mechanization

Dissertation

Enesi, Rebecca Oiza

ETH Zürich

Published: October 2022

Article

Llopis Jorge C., Diebold Clara L., Schneider Flurina, Harimalala Paul C., Andriamihaja O. Ravaka, Messerli Peter, Zähringer Julie G.

People and Nature

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: May 2022

Lazzarini Gianna, Richter Toralf, Felder, Stolze Matthias

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: February 2022

The World of Organic Agriculture 2022 - Statistics and Emerging Trends

Report

Willer Helga, Trávníček Jan, Meier Claudia, Schlatter Bernhard (Eds.)

IFOAM – Organics International

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: February 2022

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Article

Meyfroidt Patrick, de Bremond Ariane et al.

PNAS2022 Vol. 119 No. 7 e2109217118

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: January 2022

Responses of soil organic carbon, aggregate diameters, and hydraulic properties to long-term organic and conventional farming on a Vertisol in India

Article

Schweizer Steffen A., Graf-Rosenfellner Markus, Bhat Nisar A., Kayser Gilles, Sisodia Bhupendra S., Kirchhof Gunnar, Zikeli Sabine, Cadisch Georg, Bhullar Gurbir S.

Land Degrad Dev. 2022;33:785–797

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

Published: January 2022

Are commercial investments in land improving wage-labour opportunities and helping to diversify household economies in rural areas?

Report

Article

Boillat Sébastien, Belmin Raphaël, Bottazzi Patrick

Agriculture and Human Values volume 39, pages 281–300 (2022)

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: July 2021

Improvements to cassava-maize intercropping systems in southern Nigeria

Dissertation

Nwokoro Chigemezu Charles

ETH Zürich

Published: July 2021

Operationalizing resilience in the face of climate change. The case of tomato producers in Morocco and Ghana

Dissertation

Benabderrazik Kenza

ETH Zürich

Published: July 2021

Article

Masson S, Chauvel B, Carlen C & Wirth J

Swiss Agricultural Research 12, pp. 78-89

Agroscope

Published: May 2021

Article

Swiss National FAO Committee (CNS-FAO)

Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER

Published: February 2021

Have food supply chain policies improved forest conservation and rural livelihoods? A systematic review

Article

Garrett Rachael D., Levy Samuel A., Gollnow Florian, Hodel Leonie, Rueda Ximena

Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (2021) 033002

ETH Zürich

Published: January 2021

Transdisciplinary research partnerships with business and civil society in the North-South context

Report

Gertschen Alex

Swiss Academies Communications 16 (7)

Opportunities and risks for researchers and funding institutions in Switzerland

KFPE

Published: January 2021

PPM-Based Trade Measures to Promote Sustainable Farming Systems? What the EU/EFTA-Mercosur Agreements Can Learn from the EFTA-Indonesian Agreement

Report

Bürgi Bonanomi Elisabeth, Tribaldos Theresa

European Yearbook of International Economic Law: Vol. 11 (pp. 359-385)

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

Published: January 2021

A Short History of the KFPE 1994–2019

Report

Hofmänner Alexandra

Swiss Academies Communications 16 (1)

KFPE

Published: December 2020

Quantifying local ecosystem service outcomes by modelling their supply, demand and flow in Myanmar’s forest frontier landscape

Article

Feurer M, Zaehringer JG, Heinimann Andreas et al.

Journal of Land Use Science 16(1), pp. 55-93

Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (BFH-HAFL)

Published: November 2020

The sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems

Book (chapter)

Klauser Dominik

Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Published: November 2020

Report

Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE)

11 Principles & 7 Questions

KFPE

Published: December 2013

Review of the Development Co-Operation Policies and Programmes of Switzerland

Report

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

Published: June 2010

Report on Effectiveness - Swiss Development Cooperation in the Agricultural Sector 2010

Report

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Video - 06:49

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Tools for the assessment of short food supply chains’ sustainability

summary of tools applied in a working group (WP5) of the EU?project SUPURBFOOD (“Towards sustainable modes of urban and peri?urban food provisioning”, www.supurbfood.eu)

Designing user-driven climate services - What we can learn from the Climandes project: A checklist for practitioners, scientists and policy makers

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(Abstract only)

Biodiversity Function and Resilience in Tropical Agroforestry Systems Including Shifting Cultivation

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How to protect the environment (and drink better coffee)

Video - 4:27

“When We Stand up, They Have to Negotiate with Us”: Power Relations in and between an Agroindustrial and an Indigenous Food System in Bolivia

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Saving soils at degradation frontlines: sustainable land management in drylands

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Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Sustainability Certification in the Agricultural Sector

The Current State of Empirical Research

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Nahrungsmittel Spekulation – (k)ein Problem?

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Performances of machine learning algorithms for mapping fractional cover of an invasive plant species in a dryland ecosystem

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Owning Seeds, Accessing Food

A Human Rights Impact Assessment of UPOV 1991 Based on Case Studies in Kenya, Peru and the Philippines

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Partial Acidulation of Rock Phosphate for Increased Productivity in Organic and Smallholder Farming

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Fighting the other greenhouse gas

Video - 3:58

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Government and other Obstacles to Food Security : A Tale of Leadership and Cooperation

Public Keynote Address, Sixth McGill Conference on Global Food Security, Montreal, 8 October 2013

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Organic Eprints – Helping research results go to work

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Towards solving the zinc crisis

Video - 4:09

How to protect the soil

Video - 3:17

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Understanding and Changing Farming, Food & Fiber Systems. The Organic Cotton Case in Mali and West Africa

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Supporting transformation through applying agro-ecological principles and contributing to improved nutrition

The PRS Is Out but Poor People Are Still Here

The Honduran Poverty Reduction Strategy and Campesino Livelihoods in Western Honduras.

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Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia

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Transdisciplinary Glimpses

Video - 05:07

insights and innovations

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Die Vermarktung von Stevia-basierten Süßstoffen – ein Fall von Verletzung indigener Rechte, irreführendem Marketing und umstrittener biosynthetischer Herstellung

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How the organic food system contributes to sustainability

Proceedings of an International Workshop Assessing sustainable diets within the sustainability of food systems

Mediterranean diet, organic food: new challenges

15–16 September 2014,

Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, CREA, Rome

Video - 10:07

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Raising Crop Productivity in Africa through Intensification

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Biofortification. Optimizing iron absorption from beans and other staple foods

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Transportability of confined field trial data for environmental risk assessment of genetically engineered plants: a conceptual framework

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Bangladesh Farmers' Hubs, the unltimate gateway for smallholder farmers

Video - 03:31

Progress and perspectives on sustainable mountain development.

Kilimo Salama – Index-based Agriculture Insurance

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Tackling killer aflatoxins in African food crops

Video - 04:14

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African Organic Agriculture Training Manual

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Capabilities Under Telecoupling: Human Well-Being Between Cash Crops and Protected Areas in North-Eastern Madagascar

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Gender Equality in Rural Advisory Services

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Spotlight on knowledge for a new development agenda

ANNUAL REPORT 2013 of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

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Improving Conservation Perspectives of Land-Use Change Policies in the Tropics

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Participatory Cotton Breeding for Organic and Low External Input Conditions

Conference paper; NUE Crops Workshop, Crete, Greece, 9. - 10. June 2012

Tackling Agriculture in the Post-Bali Context: A collection of short essays

A collection of short essays

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Land law reform in Kenya: Devolution, veto players, and the limits of an institutional fix

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Implications of land use/land cover dynamics and Prosopis invasion on ecosystem service values in Afar Region, Ethiopia

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Du grain à moudre. Genre, développement rural et alimentation

The symposiumn analyzed the changing agricultural development with a gender focus. The paper collection provide new perspectives on female farmers around the world.

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Beans improve nutrition in Sub-Sahara Africa

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Contested Rural Development in Nepal

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Biopesticides – Traitement du coton avec neem et piment

Video - 06:33

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Opinion: Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture

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The Private Sector and India’s Agricultural Transformation

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Phosphorus cycling in soil aggregate fractions in maize-pigeon pea intercropping systems of Malawi

Doctoral Thesis

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

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Making a Living in Uncertainty

Agro-Pastoral Livelihoods and Institutional

Transformations in Post-Socialist Rural Kyrgyzstan

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Tef Improvement Project

Video - 13:06

Two Presentations of the Event: Agriculture and rural poverty reduction: the changing global context and emerging policy challenges by Henock Kifle, Chief Development Strategist, IFAD; Rural Poverty Report 2011: New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow's generation by Edward Heinemann, Team Leader Rural Poverty Report, IFAD

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The Climate Challenge for Agriculture and the Value of Climate Services: Application to Coffee-Farming in Peru

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Safer lives and livelihoods in mountains

Making the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction work for sustainable mountain development

Guidelines to assess and design interventions for food system resilience

working draft 01.11.2016

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r4d programme Mid-term Review Report

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A novel seed treatment-based multiplication approach for cassava planting material

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Role of Crop Research and Development in Food Security of Africa

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Bringing New Tropically Adapted Soybean Varieties to Africa

Video - 21:33

Video - 04:50

ETH Global has recently conducted a study on this topic, covering 304 scholarship recipients from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich from developing and transition countries. The summary of the study and the complete study are now available.

Brain drain or brain circulation? Career paths of international students PDF, 5591 KB
Lindberg Emma, Chakrabarti Parijat, Thieme Susan
ETH Global, January 2014