In order to ensure healthy and safe food for all and to protect natural resources effectively, we need new solutions in agriculture. We will only be able to overcome the key ecological and social challenges if we not only combat individual symptoms, but also gain a comprehensive understanding of the causes.
Focus on optimising entire systems
FiBL's work therefore focuses on optimising entire systems rather than individual components. Through systemic research, we investigate how soil, plants, animals and humans are interconnected. We do this with great passion and the courage to take unconventional approaches.
Our aim is to develop systemic and effective solutions. Being systemically effective – that is what matters to us. To achieve this goal, we work closely with practitioners – from the project idea to implementation. After all, many questions arise first in the field and in the barn. And that is exactly where our solutions should be quickly available and implemented.
Transformation, resilience and optimisation
In order to effectively solve the pressing problems, we want to focus on six thematic focus areas in the coming years. They describe the currently dominant challenges facing the agricultural and food industry:
- Transformation of food systems
- Climate resilience
- Agrobiodiversity
- Yield optimisation
- Animal husbandry with a future
- One Health
The six thematic focus areas also reflect central future issues in organic farming and help us to pool our expertise even more effectively and achieve greater depth. With the chosen key topics and the way we address them, we want to send a clear message: sustainable and viable food systems are possible. Together with practitioners, we want to think and act boldly.
Brochure and video
More in-depth insights can be found in a new brochure and in a video in which Jürn Sanders, Chairman of the Management Board of FiBL in Switzerland, explains the 2035 strategy (see links below).
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Links and download
- fibl.org: FiBL Strategy (2.8 MB)
- fibl.org: Video "The new FiBL strategy summarised by Jürn Sanders" (English subtitles)