Another successful symposium
At this year's World Food System Center Symposium, the audience of over 300 contributors and guests heard from projects looking to provide improvements and sustainability along the value chain of different foods such as cocoa, tef, milk, sprouts, and African leafy vegetables.
Our public research symposium held on 08 November highlighted the research that the World Food System Center Research Programs support as well other food system relevant research conducted by our members and their groups at ETH Zurich, Agroscope, Eawag, Empa, and FiBL.
This event featured oral presentations from four concluding research projects as well as insights from our education initiatives. The audience of over 300 contributors and guests heard from projects looking to provide improvements and sustainability along the value chain of different foods such as cocoa, tef, milk, sprouts, and African leafy vegetables. Researchers shared their work on new processing technologies as well as on how to measure resilience of value chains. Our own Michelle Grant and Jonna Cohen then introduced how our summer schools build the capacity of the next generation of food system leaders.
All presentations are avialable to view here: https://www.video.ethz.ch/events/2018/wfsc.html
Find more about the event here
Lively discussions at networking poster session (Image: Nicola Pitaro) Lively discussions at networking poster session (Image: Nicola Pitaro) Lively discussions at networking poster session (Image: Nicola Pitaro) Lively discussions at networking poster session (Image: Nicola Pitaro)
A networking poster session showcased 50 posters displaying ongoing food system research and Center initiatives and offered participants the chance to interact directly with researchers.
The audience selected two poster awards during the poster session of the symposium: the Best Poster Prize, a 1000 CHF prize for research addressing any food system challenge, and the Mercator Prize, a 1000 CHF prize for research on the role of organic production systems in addressing food security.
Best Overall Poster Prize went to Cordelia Kreft, Robert Huber and Robert Finger for their poster "Determinants of collective climate change mitigation in agriculture." Download Download poster (PDF, 1.2 MB)
The Mercator Poster Prize was awarded to Lukas Wille, Pierre Hohmann, Monika M. Messmer, and Bruno Studer for thier poster "Improving disease resistance of pea - clues from plant-microbe interaction." Download Download poster (PDF, 947 KB)
We congratulate this year’s winners, and we thank all presenters and contributors for making this event such a success!
