IAS News
Robot swings its way to unexplored treetops
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- D-USYS
It abseils from a height and swings around obstacles: robot Avocado will one day manoeuvre through the canopy of the rainforest and collect data for researchers about this hard-to-reach habitat.
Mount Sunzu Farm in Zambia: Producing coffee with a small footprint
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Sustainability
- D-USYS
Six years ago, Fridolin Stocker, Luca Costa and Yanik Costa bought an abandoned farm in the north of Zambia. Fridolin Stocker and Luca Costa had met while studying Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich. It took them three years to transform the land from a wasteland into a sustainable coffee farm. Today, the team is waiting for their first coffee harvest.
Agroecology in film: Online release of documentary "The Green Vein"
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- ETH Sustainability
- D-USYS
The research teams of Johanna Jacobi and Emmanuel Frossard, both from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at the Department of Environmental Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich, played a key role in the production of the documentary film "The Green Vein". After participation in more than 20 festivals around the world, winning four and receiving two honourable mentions, the film is now released to the general public.
Innovation technologies for circular economies
- World food system
- Research
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
As the RUNRES project enters its second phase of developing and now upscaling innovations for circular economies in the rural-urban nexus, private-public-partnerships will continue to play an important role.
Smart farming for more sustainability
- World food system
- Research
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Agricultural sciences
New ways to measure nitrous oxide emissions from soils as well as detect invasive pests in vineyards are the foci of two new interdisciplinary projects starting in 2024. Both projects are funded by the Center’s Smart Sustainable Farming Research Program.
Understanding benefits and trade-offs in agriculture
- World food system
- Research
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Agricultural sciences
The Center announces two new projects starting in 2024 focused on understanding how different crop rotation practices affect water and nitrogen balances as well as production. Both projects are funded by the Improving Sustainability of Agricultural and Food Systems across Key Environmental Metrics Research Program.
Professional internship in Guinea, the "University of Patience"
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Agricultural sciences
- D-USYS
Ryan Jenkins originally wanted to go to South America for his professional internship on his Master's degree in Agricultural Sciences. But then he decided to accompany his fellow student Camille Sammali on a project in Guinea, West Africa. There he learnt a lot about agroecology, but even more about communicating with people from a different culture.
Catuaí - a "coffee podcast": Stories from Brazil's heart of coffee production
- Institut für Agrarwissenschaften
- Sustainability
- D-USYS
Have you ever wondered where your morning coffee comes from? If it's Brazil, chances are it hails from the state of Minas Gerais, where more than a third of the world's exported coffee is cultivated. Researcher Marie Sigrist’s travels in this region inspired her podcast "Catuaí". In our conversation, the social anthropologist explains what motivated her to share her stories from the heart of coffee production.
Practice, politics and research: A professional internship at Agroscope
- Agricultural sciences
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- D-USYS
Philippe Mathys has long been interested in research. The 28-year-old student of Agricultural Sciences opted for Agroscope in Tänikon in the Canton of Thurgau for his professional internship and took away important lessons about practice, politics and research.
Food Day @ETH 2023
- World food system
- Research
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Food Day @ETH brought more than 200 people with different backgrounds together to discuss food system transformation. The networking poster session gave young scientists a stage to present their innovative research on food system topics.