Otto Schmid

Projects

• EU Projekt ORGAP (coordination): Evaluation of the European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming
  
• EU Projekt Organic-Revision (project leader FiBL): Research to support revision of the EU regulation on organic agriculture
  
• EU Projekt QLIF
  
• EU Projekt COFAMI: Encouraging Collective Farmers Marketing Initatives
  
• EU Projekt ORWINE: organci wine-growing and wine-making
  
• Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG): project on organic meet production

Activity areas

• Markets, standards
  
• Policy advice
  
• Rural development

Training / professional career

• Since 1999 Coordinator of research subcommittee for Oragnic Agriculture, IFOAM-EU Group
  
• 1997-2006 External Senior Lecturer on Comparison of Farming Systems, ETH-Zürich
  
• 1999-2006 External Senior Lecturer for Agromarketing, ETH-Zürich
  
• 1988-2006 External Senior Lecturer for organic farming, ETH-Zürich
  
• 1984-1995 Lecturer for organic farming Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (SIL), Zollikofen
  
• 1981-1992 Head of the Certification Committee, Swiss Union of Organic Farming Organisation
  
• 1977-1989 Co-ordinator of the Advisory Service FiBL Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Oberwil
  
• 1989-1998 President Swiss Association of Organic Farm Advisors
  
• 1993-2002 Head of the delegation of the IFOAM Delegation Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Labelling
  
• 1977-1983 and 1989-1992 Co-ordinator of the Standards Committee, member until 2002. International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
  
• 1975-1976 Post-graduate researcher in a project on economic growth and impact on environment Swiss National Research Foundation