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Rainer Gießübel

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

Fellowship - Areas of cooperation

  • Strategic orientation of FiBL
  • Agricultural policy
  • Support for the project Target and Impact Indicators for Improved Steering of Organic Farming Promotion Policy (ZiWi)

Training / professional career

  • since November 2021 Senior Fellow at FiBL Germany
  • 2018 - 2021 Head of Department Agricultural Production, Horticulture, Agricultural Policy at BMEL
  • 2010 - 2018 Sub-Department Head Planning, Social Policy, Taxes, IT Officer, Planning Officer at BMEL
  • Since 1989 at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture BMEL with various areas of responsibility: Development of rural areas, promotion of individual farms, banks and credit, minister's office, reduction of bureaucracy, export promotion, fundamental issues of agricultural policy and political planning
  • 1988 Doctorate on non-marketable services of agriculture, forestry and rural regions
  • 1983 - 1989 Scientific work, collaboration on various projects of the Chair of Regional and Environmental Policy at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, regional development in Central Hesse
  • 1979 - 1983 Studied agricultural sciences at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, graduating as a graduate agricultural engineer in the field of economics and social sciences of agriculture