Flagship Projects
The Center launched an initiative in 2013 to support Flagship projects, envisioned as large-scale research initiatives around critical food system topics.
These Flagship Projects or Platforms are envisioned as:
- Visionary and potentially high risk;
- Cutting across thematic focus areas to take a food systems or whole of value chain approach;
- Bringing together multiple PIs with disciplinary expertise to enable an interdisciplinary approach to a common topic; and
- Involving key stakeholders from industry, government, and/or not-for-profit organisations, in non-competitive roles, representing different aspects of the food system.
Current projects
Enhancing Resilience in Food Systems
This project is an initiative of the ETH Zurich World Food System Center, the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group, the Climate Policy Group, and the TdLab. Initiated in 2013, it takes on the question, "with so much uncertainty and complexity, how can we make food systems more sustainable under multiple, unpredictable drivers of change?"
Novel Proteins for Food and Feed
This project is an initiative of the World Food System Center and many WFSC member groups, with by Prof. Alexander Mathys, Sustainable Food Processing, signing on as Principal Investigator. This project aims to develop food innovations to provide new sources of sustainable and nutritious protein for a growing world population.
Previous projects
ETH Studio AgroFood
This project was a collaboration of the ETH Crop Science Group, ETH Global, and the WFSC. The project strived to educate ETH students about the disruptive effects of digitalization in the agro-food sector and empower them to develop strategic solutions. By bringing their gained knowledge to practical applications, these students will assist stakeholders of the Swiss agro-food sector transition to the so-called Food System 4.0. The project ran from 2016-2019. See project highlights here
