Special Collaborations

The Center engages in practice-oriented research via special projects with partners to support real world agenda setting and decision-making.

Examples of such activities include being a partner for outreach and communications for the Towards pesticide free agricultural production systems project. The Center is also an education partner for the ETH Domain funded project external page Engage-Evidence-based dialogue on trade-offs in wicked societal problems.

Previous Projects

• The Center was a communications partner for the Enhancing Biodiversity & Resilience in Crop Production research collaboration with Bayer and the International Food Policy Research Institute in 2021-2022.
  
• The Center was an outreach and communications partner for the external page EIT Food Phenoliva Project: Treatment and valorisation of olive mill wastes in 2020-2022.
  
• The Center was a communications partner from 2021-2022 for the Swiss National Research Foundation funded project external page MyFruitTwin, which focused on physics-based digital twins for fruits and vegetables to reduce food waste.
  
• The Center was an outreach partner in EIT Food Grand Challenge Innovation Project "Tasty Texture-Tailored Fiber/Protein Rich Vegetarian Health Power Food & Novel Extrusion Technology Platform for Manufacture" (TexVegFood) from 2019-2020.
  
• The Center worked with the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture to conduct a foresight study for a sustainable Swiss food system that informed the FOAG regarding the direction of Swiss research within the framework of the world food system. Read more about the Foresight study.
• The Center was an education partner in the R4D project, Biophysical, institutional and economic drivers of sustainable soil use in yam systems for improved food security in West Africa, led by WFSC member Prof. Emmanuel Frossard; this is six-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Agency for Development and Cooperation. A World Food System Summer School in collaboration with the project took place in Côte d’Ivoire in January 2018. Read more
• The Center acted as an education and outreach partner in the international consortium project Delivering Food Security on Limited Land, which is a four-year project funded by the Belmont Forum and FACCE-JPI initiative, with WFSC member Prof. Nina Buchmann as co-Principal Investigator. A World Food System Summer School in collaboration with the project took place in Switzerland in August 2019. Read more
• Bühler supported two concluded research projects at the Center that focused on understanding future challenges for food value chains and developing viable solutions. Read more