New WFSC research videos
- D-USYS
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
What do coffee agroforests, older cows, wheat zinc content, soil management, and dual-purpose chickens have in common? All of them are highlighted in a series of five short videos that the World Food System Center released in the past weeks.
The five projects presented in this series are among the first concluded projects funded through the two current WFSC Research Programmes. These programmes support new crossdisciplinary and solution-oriented research to address food system challenges.
In the project "Managing Trade-Offs in Coffee Agroforests" Maike Nesper from the Chair of Ecosystem Management looked at the potential of coffee agroforests to increase the sustainability of coffee production in India.
Prof. Michael Kreuzer and Florian Grandl from the Animal Nutrition Group tackled the problem of high greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems in the project "Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Dairy Production Systems based on Longevity and Zero-Concentrate Strategy as Compared to Conventional Systems".
"Zinc Biofortification of Wheat through Organic Matter Management in Sustainable Agriculture" was a collaboration of the former Soil Protection Group and the Plant Nutrition Group looking at ways to use organic matter management to help decrease zinc deficiency.
In the project entitled "A Comprehensive Examination of Nitrogen Cycling and Microbial Communities within Soil Microenvironments in Integrated Organic Farming Systems in Switzerland", the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group collaborated with Agroscope to look at management options to conserve soil quality.
In the project entitled "Elements of successful novel dual purpose chicken production systems", Dr. Isabelle Gangnat and the Animal Nutrition Group looked at options to overcome the challenge of male chick culling by using dual-purpose breeds. This project was funded by the Coop Research Program on Sustainability in Food Value Chains.
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