Addressing environmental and human health risk
The Center seeks to find funding opportunities from various foundations interested in supporting food system transformation.
A recent research funding opportunity focused on Addressing environmental and human health risk of food systems.
The aim of opportunity is to fund postdoctoral or doctoral projects that demonstrate how specific key challenges and risks in the food system can be addressed. Encouraged are projects that show how research at the interface between fundamental and applied research contributes to different environmental as well as health issues.
The call for proposals 2025 is closed. We plan to open a new call in spring 2026.
Research topics
- Reducing environmental and human health risks of agricultural and food systems while improving social and economic sustainability
- Improving the competitiveness of sustainable agricultural and food systems
- Innovative approaches to facilitate agriculture and food system transformation
- Strengthening the resilience of agricultural food systems to climate change and other challenges
Direct funding is restricted to ETH Zurich World Food System Center members.
Research Highlight
Read more from project “Towards pesticide-free agricultural production systems" here: https://aecp.ethz.ch/research/pestifreeagsys.html
World Food System Center Research Programs
The Center's Research Programs support new cross-disciplinary and solution oriented research to address food system challenges. The Center administers these competitive programs in coordination with the Research Commission of the ETH Zurich.