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The role of water for food and nutrition security was the central theme of a three-day course held at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome. Organized by the World Food System Center, as part of a lecture on food security, the course brought together agricultural and environmental science students from ETH Zurich for an interactive learning experience.

An innovative project is underway to equip farmers with low-power, cost-effective sensors designed to measure nitrous oxide emissions directly in their fields. This technology offers a promising route towards a more sustainable agriculture by enabling farmers to optimize fertilization and mitigate nitrous oxide emissions.

The World Food System Center is launching the Food System Journey website, a platform allowing visitors to explore the challenges in our food system and discover innovative solutions from research at ETH Zurich through captivating graphics, videos, and stories.

We are excited to share the report on our third phase of operations (2021-2024),  which highlights our diverse research, education, and outreach activities focused on food system transformation.

Alumni Stories: Marta López Cifuentes shares how her Summer School experience sparked her interest in investigating alternative models of global food value chains, leading to the successful initiation of a project on trans-local food coalitions.

ETH researchers are developing a drone-based eDNA analysis approach for early detection of invasive species in viticulture. This interdisciplinary project aims to overcome limitations of traditional monitoring, demonstrating the potential of this approach for biomonitoring in initial field trials.

ETH Zurich hosted a delegation from the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) for a dialogue on research and applications in agroecology and the social dimension of food systems transformation.

Switzerland’s glaciers are in increasingly poor shape. If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut drastically soon, they could cease to exist by 2100 – so says ETH Professor Daniel Farinotti in this ETH News interview to mark the first World Day for Glaciers.

Lenny Winkel researches the environmental behaviour of trace elements such as selenium. A native of the Netherlands, she adores the Swiss mountains.