A farm-based sustainability assessment and networking platform to accelerate the agroecological transition of the Swiss organic sector

Farmers are supported in independently improving the sustainability of their farms: an online platform developed for this purpose provides a sustainability self-check, connects colleagues with each other and offers easy access to more in-depth advisory services.

It will be investigated whether the platform and the various networking and information opportunities can promote and influence the decisions of farm managers in a way that strengthens the sustainability of their farms.

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Bridge - Discovery

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – National Research Programmes (NRPs)

• Bio Suisse

• Baumgart Lukas (Department of Food System Sciences)

• Blumenstein Benjamin (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Curran Michael (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Geiser Anna (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Möhring Anke (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Papagiannakis Haris (Departement für Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme)
• Thanner Sophie (Department of Extension, Training & Communication)

Project coordination

• data.snf.ch: Project in the data portal of the Swiss National Science Foundation

• Advisory tools (Department of Extension, Training & Communication, FiBL Switzerland)
• Sustainability (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)