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Claude Müller and Lea Fabritius are the winners of this year's Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) award. While Claude Müller's doctoral thesis provides new insights into soil management practices in diverse agroecosystems, the Master's thesis of Lea Fabritius focuses on the social life cycle assessment of five coffee production case studies in the South of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

We are excited to announce that applications for the 2026 World Food System Summer School “Design Ideas for Sustainable Food Systems” are open now!

In the latest allocation of European funding for cutting-edge research, ETH Zurich scientists have performed exceptionally well. Here, we present the projects that will receive several million euros in funding.

Eight ETH Zurich students and researchers joined global leaders at the World Food Forum in Rome. Together, they co-organized a side event to advance local food action and sustainable food systems.

What does it take to move toward pesticide-free farming? At ETH Zurich, researchers and practitioners discussed new business models, technological solutions, and policy tools to support sustainable production systems.

The conference “What’s on your Plate? Planetary Health and Healthy Diets” at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome fostered exchange on the societal and systemic changes needed to reinvent food systems for greater sustainability, equity, and health.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed and tested a new compound to combat iron deficiency. The body can absorb this iron virtually twice as fast as iron in current supplements. It could effectively treat iron deficiency, which affects 2 billion people worldwide. 

An alpine plant could hold the key to its survival in a steadily warming climate. ETH Zurich researchers have identified the origin of two particular ancient gene variants in the plant that control its flowering time.

For decades, the oat variety ‘Hative des Alpes’  had been all but forgotten. Now, its genetic information is being incorporated into the first gene atlas for oats – and will one day contribute to the cultivation of new oat varieties.