Presenting and networking at the VÖW Summer School

In September 2021 a Summer School of the Vereinigung für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (VÖW, English: Association for Ecological Economy Research) took place under the theme “Sustainable land use: between economic parameters, agricultural policy requirements and societal demands”. It was here that Ingrid Bunker presented her social science research into the bioeconomic… Read More »Presenting and networking at the VÖW Summer School

“Transformation processes in the agricultural and food system: challenges for economics and social sciences”- that was the title of this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus e.V. (https://www.gewisola.de/). Under the title “Insects in the Bioeconomy: Acceptability of Using Insects for Livestock Feed in Europe”,… Read More »BioKum presents its research at GEWISOLA 2021

Astrid Artner-Nehls and René Méité presented results of their work at this year’s ÖGA conference. The agro-sociologist and the agronomist linked parts of their PhD projects to the contribution “Thematizing N mitigation strategies in scientific and technical press”. On September 16-17, 2021, the 31st annual meeting of the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics was held… Read More »BIOKUM at the ÖGA conference 2021

On 09.09.2021 and 10.09.2021 a PhD workshop took place at the Thünen-institute in Braunschweig under the topic “Everyday life and tensions in rural areas”. In this context, Jonathan Friedrich presented the results of his dissertation project in a lecture entitled “What does research of imaginations contribute to the analyses of… Read More »Presentation at the Rural Studies Workshop at the Thünen-Institute in Braunschweig

On 8 and 9 July 2021, the German Sustainability Summit 2021 took place as an interactive virtual event. As part of the Summit, the German Committee for Sustainability Research presented its new position paper, which is to be developed into a joint research agenda for the coming years. Dr. Jana… Read More »German Sustainability Science Summit – Dr. Jana Zscheischler invited to comment on the position paper

Newly published study analyses bioeconomic innovations in terms of their contribution to a socio-ecological transformation The current environmental crises underline the urgent need for a global socio-ecological transformation of the agricultural and food system. In this context, the bioeconomy and bioeconomic innovations are often seen as an instrument for more… Read More »Publication: Bioeconomy and Social-Ecological Transformation

For us, too, it’s not always just about manure. Taking into account complex interrelationships in the agri-food system, we also look at other aspects that are relevant in a sustainability transformation. In a scientific article, published in the first issue of GAIA in 2021, Jonathan Friedrich, Jana Zscheischler and Heiko… Read More »What do working conditions in the meat industry have to do with a sustainability transformation?

In the scope of the BioKum sub-project „Insects in the Bioeconomy“, Ingrid Bunker has started carrying out interviews. The aim of the interviews is to explore the soceital acceptibility of cultivating insects on manure and the use of insects as protein-rich feed and to capture the attitudes, opinions, and concerns… Read More »Interviews underway for the sub-project “Insects in the bioeconomy”