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Congratulations to Dr Charis Linda Braun! We are proud to announce that Charis has very successfully defended her dissertation. The dissertation explored co-innovation processes in local agri-food systems based on the example of the organic vegetable sector in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. A… [read more]

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Congratulations to Dr Nirit Havardi-Burger! Well done! We are proud to announce that Nirit Havardi-Burger has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Nirit discussed ‘A framework for sustainability assessment tailored to floricultural value chains’. Abstract of her thesis Floricultural products are… [read more]

On Friday, April 14, 2023, Lisa Blix Germundsson has successfully defended her doctoral thesis: Knowledge and innovation systems in Swedish horticulture - A study of multi-actor collaboration for impact. Her doctoral thesis focused on understanding how the knowledge and innovation system within… [read more]

The Commission for the Future of Agriculture, originally convened by the then German chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel, in 2020, submitted unanimously agreed upon recommendations for a sustainable and future-oriented agriculture and food system in Germany on June 29, 2021. In the wake of the German… [read more]

The paper analyzes the competitiveness of two vegetable production regions in Southern Germany following Porter’s definition of industry clusters and his Diamond model, emphasizing the interplay of four bundles of determinants (factor conditions, local demand conditions, supporting industries, and… [read more]

Charis Linda Braun, Vera Bitsch and Anna Maria Häring investigated the development of agri-food value chains from an organizational learning perspective, using the German organic food sector as an example. They illustrate how local value chains evolve over time and outline how facilitation can… [read more]