Summer School – Designing Food Value Chains to foster the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The current food system is not able to produce food to nourish the people in a sustainable way. Less environmental impact, resource use efficiency, maintaining soil fertility, closing of nutrient cycles, stable harvests, improved distribution, avoiding food losses/food waste, fair business models and food sovereignty are the main challenges in the current food system.

The new design of existing or new supply chains on a local, regional and international level are of special relevance. They should be designed to foster the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which entered into force on 1 January.

Young scientists will be relevant actors in this process of change. For them, ZHAW and FiBL offers e-learning tools and an international summer school will be held in Switzerland, Slovenia and India on the topic of "Designing Food Value Chains to foster the UN Sustainable Development Goals."

• Foundation Mercator Switzerland – Organic agriculture and food

• ZHAW - Züricher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Schweiz
• University of Ljubljana, Slowenien
• University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengalore, Indien

• Stolze Mathias (Support unit of the Executive Committee)

• Alföldi Thomas (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)
• Bernet Thomas (Department of International Cooperation)
• Oehen Bernadette (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)

Project partner

• Advisory & Training (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)
• Advisory tools (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)
• Agri-Food Systems (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Consumers & Food (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Value chains & Markets (Department of International Cooperation, FiBL Switzerland)