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Matthias Klaiss

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Research and advisory services arable farming
  • Grain legumes
  • Cereals
  • Agroforestry
  • Organic seed service

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
ongoing CH Agroforestry learning project 01.01.2024 31.12.2027
ongoing CH Valorising and balancing the ecosystem service benefits offered by legumes, and legume-based cropped systems (LegumES) 01.01.2024 31.01.2028
ongoing CH EU Organic Farming Regulation vs. Bio Suisse legislations 01.11.2023 31.12.2025
ongoing CH Strategies for the adaptation of arable farming systems to climate change and their contribution to climate protection in the Upper Rhine region (KLIMACrops) 01.10.2022 31.12.2025
completed CH EU Öko CH Bio Side-by-side Vergleich 28.02.2022 01.05.2023
completed CH Bio Körnerleguminosen für Ernährung Schweiz 01.04.2021 31.12.2023
ongoing CH EVAluation of Soybean varieties for low Input and Organic productioN under stressed conditions (EVASION) 01.03.2021 31.03.2025
ongoing CH Anbau- und Absatzförderung neuer Dinkelsorten (DAACH Dinkelsorten) 07.01.2021 31.12.2024
completed CH Relay intercropping – Further developing a resource-conserving cultivation system for soya in mixed culture in practice 30.04.2019 31.12.2021
completed CH Legumes Translated (Translating knowledge for legume-based farming for feed and food systems) (Legumes Translated) 01.11.2018 30.04.2022
completed CH Solutions for improving Agroecosystem and Crop Efficiency for water and nutrient use (SolACE) 01.05.2017 30.09.2022
completed CH Variety trials maize 01.01.2017 31.12.2020
completed CH Development of selection systems and participatory breeding for weed suppression or tolerance of Swiss soya (Soybean Breeding) 01.10.2016 30.04.2021
completed CH Organic soya in Switzerland – Optimising the Swiss production chain from seeds to the final product (B3S) 01.01.2016 31.03.2019
completed CH Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung von Knospe-Betrieben zur Weiterentwicklung des Standards und zur Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeitsleistungen 01.01.2015 31.12.2018
completed CH Representative sustainability assessment of Bio Suisse farms on the basis of the FAO SAFA guidelines 01.11.2014 31.12.2018
completed CH Entwicklungskonzept 2020 Landwirtschaft Basel-Stadt 01.01.2014 01.10.2014
completed CH Sainfoin – a valuable forage plant for the Swiss agricultural environment 01.01.2014 31.12.2017
completed CH Europaweite landwirtschaftliche Weiterbildung für erfahrene Bioberatungspersonen (EATorganic) 01.09.2013 31.12.2015
completed DECH German-Turkish Cooperation – Organic Agriculture 01.12.2011 31.12.2016
completed CH Cotton Cultivar Evaluation for organic and low input farming in India (CCE) 01.06.2011 30.05.2017
completed CH Intercroping of cereals and grain legumes - Steps towards increased domestic protein production 01.01.2010 31.12.2014
ongoing CH Coordination of plant breeding and variety testing for organic farming in Switzerland (Pflanzenzüchtung & Sortenprüfung – CH) 01.01.2009
ongoing CH Bio-Mahlweizenversuchsnetz (Winterweizen Sortenversuch) 01.01.2004
ongoing CH Organic Seeds Service (Biosaatgutstelle) 01.01.2003
ongoing CHDE organicXseeds

Training / professional career

  • Since 2013 agronomic adviser at FiBL
  • 2013 Scientific collaborator UMR Eco & Sols INRA, Montpellier
  • 2012 Department of International Cooperation FiBL
  • 2012 M.Sc. in International Organic Agriculture, University of Kassel
  • 2009 B.Sc. Bachelor in Organic Agriculture, University of Kassel
  • 2002 Training as a farmer for biologically dynamic agriculture at the Freie Landbauschule Bodensee (Free Agriculture School Lake Constance)

Committee work / further activities

  • Swisssem (IG Biosaatgut)
  • Technical commission swiss granum (soya, peas)

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive