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12/03/2025 | Study

Master Agriculture, Ecology and Societies, Faculty 11, 15.-16.11.25

@International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance

The first-year AGES students spent a weekend at the Hessian State Domain Frankenhausen – the University of Kassel’s organic teaching and research farm. The group explored the farm together, visited the farm shop, walked across the fields, and even met newborn calves in the cowshed.

One of the master program’s modules deals with ‘Food Systems Governance and Agriculture’ – that is why students played for 1.5 days an interactive simulation game on (inter)national agricultural policies. Gaming allows to dive into practical arguing for one’s own role and interest group, having national and international negotiation rounds and discussing measures to steer the agri-food system into different directions – for better or for worse. The game „A TALE OF TWO DOUGHNUTS - Food system transitions” was developed together with Planpolitik Berlin and was supported by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching (Stiftung für Innovation in der Hochschullehre).