Call open: Improving Sustainability of Agricultural and Food Systems

The Improving Sustainability of Agricultural and Food Systems across Key Environmental Metrics Research Program focuses on improving sustainability of agricultural and food systems across key environmental metrics. The goal is to understand the benefits and tradeoffs of various measures in agricultural systems and production practices while maintaining the production potential and strengthening overall resilience of the agricultural system towards climate impacts and biodiversity.

Bayer is supporting several interdisciplinary research projects of the World Food System Center with a total donation of 1.1 million Swiss francs over the next four years.

A call for proposals for the program is now open until 30 April 2023. The research program is structured around a first call in 2023 to fund approximately two research projects. These projects can either be stand-​alone postdoctoral researcher projects or combined activities in collaborative projects of two or more groups. Maximum funding for each project is set at 225,000 CHF each. The maximum funding duration per project is two years for postdoctoral researchers.

Professors and Senior Researchers at ETH Zurich are invited to submit research proposals addressing one or more of the following topics:
Identifying sustainable agricultural systems and scalable production practices;
Exploring along key sustainability metrics; and
Further improving sustainability by minimizing tradeoffs with special focus on the environmental footprint and risks of production.

To submit a proposal to this call, the Principal Investigator (PI) must be a researcher of ETH Zurich. Direct funding is restricted to ETH Zurich World Food System Center members.

Interested?

Join us for a Q&A Session with Center staff and Bayer representatives. We will introduce the aims of the program and answer any questions you might have.

Online Q&A Session: 14 March, 11:00 - 12:00 CET