Students will focus on ways to reach out to a wider public the complexity of science. Sub-topics like the role of socially engaged art, political ecologies, and decolonial food systems will be explored in the lecture. Students will be encouraged to develop critical thinking on the connections between water, sanitation, food security and ways to sustainably improve food systems resilience.

This class provides an introduction to biogeochemical modeling in the context of agricultural ecosystems. It covers the general background and principles of modeling agricultural biogeochemistry in a theoretical part (e.g., plant growth and soil C dynamics), while the focus is on learning how to code biogeochemical models in the R software environment.

The colloquium “Challenges in Plant Sciences” is a core class of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center's PhD program. The colloquium introduces participants to the broad spectrum of plant sciences within the network. The course offers the opportunity to approach interdisciplinary topics in the field of plant sciences.

In this course, you will explore pathways to sustainable food systems across environmental, social, political, and economic dimensions. In interdisciplinary teams, you’ll tackle real-world cases, work with stakeholders across the food value chain, and use visual and auditory storytelling to share ideas and inspire change.

This lecture with integrated exercises and farm visit introduces the factors, processes and interactions that control the functioning of tropical agroecosystems. Students will be guided to critically examine agricultural practices and management strategies to increase resource use efficiency, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and ensuring socio-economic viability.

This lecture with integrated exercises and farm visit introduces the factors, processes and interactions that control the functioning of temperate and tropical agroecosystems. Students will be guided to critically examine agricultural practices and management strategies to increase resource use efficiency, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and ensuring socio-economic viability.

This class conveys current topics and methods of agroecological and food systems research through selected case studies from ongoing research of the Sustainable Agroecosystems group. Students will be encouraged to develop critical thinking competencies, through individual and group work, on major agricultural and food system challenges and paths towards agricultural and food system transformation

This course guides students in analyzing and comprehending tropical agroecosystems and food systems. Students gain practical knowledge of field methods, diagnostic tools and survey methods for tropical soils and agroecosystems. An integral part of the course is the two-week field project in the Mount Kenya Region, which is co-organized with the University of Embu (Kenya)

Die Grundlagen des Welternährungssystem werden anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der Forschung entlang der Wertschöpfungskette vermittelt.In einem begleitenden Lernelement können die Studierenden nicht nur selbst gewählte Themen des Welternährungssystems vertiefen, sondern lernen auch Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz – wie etwa ChatGPT oder vergleichbare Modelle – kennen und anwenden.