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Anne Challandes on biodiversity: "Biodiversity concerns us all"

Anne Challandes.

Anne Challandes is a farmer and lawyer, has been president of the Swiss Farmers' and Rural Women's Association for five years running and has now been on the Foundation Council of FiBL Switzerland for three years. (Photo: Matthieu Spohn)

Biodiversity is one of the foundations of our existence, a major and complex issue – and one that is often overlooked. From FiBL's point of view, a high biodiversity on the farm is an important pillar of good organic farming. Over the next few months, we will be giving a number of specialists the opportunity to share their views on the importance of biodiversity in agriculture in our "Voices on Biodiversity" series.

This time, it's Anne Challandes's turn. She is a farmer and lawyer, has been president of the Swiss Farmers' and Rural Women's Association for five years running and has now been on the Board of Trustees of FiBL Switzerland for three years. Together with her husband, she runs an organic farm in the Neuchâtel Jura. She campaigned against the biodiversity initiative, which the Swiss voted on this autumn, and explains here why she does not want this position to be understood as a vote against biodiversity.

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Adrian Krebs, Media spokesperson FiBL Switzerland

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