From Farm to Fork - European and international perspectives, since 2025
This study trip consists of a mixture of a preparatory seminar and a week-long excursion to another European country. In 2025, we travelled to the United Kingdom, where we attended the third international biodynamic research conference and also visited interesting organic agricultural farms, food businesses, research institutions and associations. In 2026, we are planning to travel to northern Italy.
From Farm to Fork - the state of Hesse (Germany), annual excursions to organic model regions from 2022 until 2024
How do organically and regionally produced foods end up on our plates in Hesse and what can a public welfare-oriented agricultural and food industry look like? These are questions addressed during a one-week field trip in the state of Hesse, which I organised every year from 2022 until 2024 as the Programme Director of the MSc Programme Sustainable Food Economics (Nachhaltige Ernährungswirtschaft) at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. During the field trip we arranged meetings with actors along the food value chain and visited companies, initiatives and institutional players that foster food production according to the principles of the economy for the common good and the EU's organic food regulation.
From Farm to Fork - Mallorca (Spain), 2018 and 2019
Organic food and beverages producers, regional markets and online traders, local heritage, gastronomy and hospitality institutions. This one-week field trip in June 2019 (and a pre-field trip in 2018) covered all stages of the value chain in organic food and beverages production on the island of Mallorca. I organised this field trip in my role as Programme Director of the two international programmes - MSc International Food Business and Consumer Studies and MSc Sustainable Food Systems - at the University of Kassel (in collaboration with the University for Applied Sciences in Fulda) in 2018/19.
