Rural sociology

What FiBL is doing on this theme
- Group Society & Innovation, Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland
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07.10.25

Podcast: Transparency on Farmers’ Incomes

The economic situation of farmers and their role within the food supply chain are topics of intense…

10.02.23

Booklet "Faces of Organic Cotton"

The portrait series "Faces of Organic Cotton" has been published as a booklet. Eleven people give an…

03.09.21

Conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA): Call for abstracts

The Call for Abstracts for the 2022 Conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and…
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Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
ongoing	CH	Agricultural ground-breaking solutions based on robotics and augmented reality (AGROBOOST)	01.11.2025	30.10.2030
ongoing	CH	Innovative and integrative agroforestry in Africa: strengthening rural livelihoods and resilience to climate change (GALILEO)	01.01.2025	31.12.2028
completed	CH	Sowing seeds of change: Exploring the transformation pathways and socio-ecological implications of a biodiversity-friendly Swiss food system (BioFriend)	01.08.2024	31.03.2025
completed	CH	Training on Innovation Platforms in Africa	12.07.2024	31.10.2024
completed	CH	Sustainability of the Farming System in Pantelleria (IT)	01.03.2024	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Self-harvest gardens and crowdfarming: promoting innovative producer-consumer partnerships in Switzerland	01.01.2024	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	A farm-based sustainability assessment and networking platform to accelerate the agroecological transition of the Swiss organic sector (AgriSustaiNet)	01.12.2022	30.11.2026
ongoing	CH	Understanding Plural values, intersectionality, leverage points, Attitudes, Norms, behaviour and social lEarning in Transformation for Biodiversity decision making (EU Planet4B)	01.11.2022	31.10.2025
ongoing	CH DE EU	Organic seed and plant breeding to accelerate sustainable and diverse food systems in Europe (LiveSeeding)	01.10.2022	30.09.2026
ongoing	CH	ENcouraging FArmers towards sustainable farming SYstems through policy and business Strategies (ENFASYS)	01.09.2022	30.08.2026
completed	CH	Agroecological transition and organic certification in Vietnam to empower rural communities (SNF Agro-econvert)	01.04.2022	31.03.2025
completed	CH	Evidence-based transformation in pesticide governance (TRAPEGO)	01.01.2022	31.12.2024
ongoing	CH	Deliberative diets: Connecting producers and consumers to value the sustainability of Swiss food system scenarios (DeliDiets)	01.01.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Modelling social and economic pathways towards circular food systems (Foods4Future)	01.11.2021	31.12.2025
completed	CH EU	The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network (ALL-Ready)	01.11.2020	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Synergistic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel (SustainSAHEL)	01.09.2020	01.09.2025
completed	DE CH	Overcoming the physical and mental barriers for upscaling Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean (ConServeTerra)	01.07.2020	30.06.2024
ongoing	CH	Goal-oriented biodiversity promotion in the Canton of Zurich (ZiBiF)	01.06.2020	01.06.2028
completed	CH	Äthiopien Agrinatura VCA4D Baumwolle	08.01.2020	31.08.2020
completed	CH	Mali Agrinatura VCA4D Fisch	01.07.2019	31.03.2020
completed	CH	Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts in Rural Areas (DESIRA)	01.06.2019	31.05.2023
completed	CH	How can agroecology build resilient livelihoods (BioviAgroec)	01.12.2018	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Understanding and improving the sustainability of agro-ecological farming systems in the EU (UNISECO)	01.05.2018	30.04.2021
completed	CH	Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks (LIAISON)	01.05.2018	01.11.2021
completed	DE	Seniorenangebote in der Landwirtschaft Netzwerkaufbau und Informationsmaterialien Schwerpunkt Hessen	17.04.2018	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Dynamic Agroforestry Systems (DAFS) (DAFS)	01.04.2018	31.12.2021
completed	CH	Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake through Demonstration (NEFERTITI)	01.01.2018	30.09.2022
completed	CH DE	Intelligent Linking of Governmental Measures and Private Initiatives to Improve Environmental and Social Standards in Global Value Chains, Using the Example of the Textile Industry (SMART-MiX+PI)	01.11.2017	31.03.2020
completed	DE	Agrarsysteme in der Zukunft – Einzelvorhaben – Konzeptphase: „Crowdsourcing – Stabile Agrar-Systeme durch Crowdsourcing“ (Crowdsourcing)	01.09.2017	28.02.2018
completed	CH	Innovative landwirtschaftliche Produktionssysteme und Autonomie der Landwirte: in Richtung einer effizienteren Nutzung der Ressourcen (Microfermes)	01.08.2017	31.12.2022
completed	AT	AMA-Partnership Award für die Lebensmittelwertschöpfungskette	01.05.2017	01.03.2018
completed	DE	Landwirtschaftliche Betriebe als Lebensorte älterer Menschen - Fokus Menschen mit Demenz	01.05.2017	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Peer-to-peer Learning: Accessing Innovation through Demonstration (PLAID)	01.01.2017	30.06.2019
completed	CH	ImproCalf - Improvement of veal calf health through adaption of rearing conditions on dairy farms (ImproCalf)	01.10.2016	30.09.2019
completed	CH	Local food systems as key to comprehensive integrative governance of sustainability (KERNiG) (KERNiG)	01.01.2016	30.09.2019
completed	CH	Cooking and eating as an aesthetic practice. An explorative study	01.01.2016	31.12.2018
completed	CH	Enhancing SME competitiveness and sustainability in the organic sector (SME-ORGANICS)	01.01.2016	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Organic Knowledge Network Arable (OK-Net Arable)	01.03.2015	28.02.2018
completed	CH	Farmer-driven organic resource management to build soil fertility (ORM4Soil)	01.01.2015	31.12.2020
completed	CH	BetterGardens: Soil quality, biodiversity, and social value of urban gardens (Sinergia BetterGardens)	01.01.2015	31.12.2018
completed	CH	The share of local food in the total consumption of the city of Freiburg	01.01.2015	30.11.2015
completed	CH	Yamsys, Biophysical and socio-economic drivers of sustainable soil use in yam cropping systems for improved food security in West Africa (Yamsys)	01.11.2014	30.11.2020
completed	AT CH	CONNEctingknowledge, scales and actors; An integrated framework for adaptive organic resource management targeting soil aggradation and agroecosystems’ resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa (ConneSSA)	01.08.2014	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Insect-based feed and fertilizer production via waste transformation for small-holders in Ghana (IBFFP)	01.01.2014	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Impact of Research on EU Agriculture (IMPRESA)	01.11.2013	31.12.2016
completed	CH	An integrated approach to diversify the genetic base, improve stress resistance, agronomic management and nutritional/processing quality of minor cereal crops for human nutrition in Europe (HEALTHYMINORCEREALS)	01.09.2013	31.08.2018
completed	AT CH	Die Alpenregion: Ein Modell für eine nachhaltige Landnutzung und Ernährungsweise (CH Landnutzung Alpen)	01.09.2013	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Global and Local food chain Assessment: a Multidimensional performance-based approach (GLAMUR)	01.02.2013	31.01.2016
completed	CH	Allotment Garden ‐ Organic Garden: Approaches to encouraging the greening of urban areas	01.02.2013	31.12.2014
completed	CH	Addressing socio-economic regional disparities: the potential of organic farming for strengthening rural areas in Bulgaria	01.01.2013	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Towards sustainable modes of urban and peri-urban food provisioning (SUPURBFOOD)	01.10.2012	30.09.2015
completed	CH	Expansion of the Sustainability and Organic Livestock Model	01.06.2012	30.06.2013
completed	DE	Kleine Gärten – große Wirkungen, Bildungsmaßnahmen zur Förderung des ökologischen Bewusstseins urbaner Gärtner mit dem Ziel der Ökologisierung städtischer Flächen und der Steigerung des Konsums von Biolebensmitteln	01.01.2012	31.12.2019
completed	CH	SOLINSA: Support of learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture (SOLINSA)	01.02.2011	31.01.2014
completed	CH	Farmer Consumer Partnerships (FCP)	01.01.2007	31.12.2010
completed	CH	Räumliche Aspekte der Koexistenz	01.01.2004	31.08.2004

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Rural sociology

What FiBL is doing on this theme

News on the theme

Podcast: Transparency on Farmers’ Incomes

Booklet "Faces of Organic Cotton"

Conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA): Call for abstracts

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