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11/19/2019 | Pressemitteilung

27th Witzenhausen Conference on "Climate.Change.Agriculture

From December 3 to 7, 2019, the renowned Witzenhausen Conference will be held at the University of Kassel, Witzenhausen site, with distinguished guests. Speakers include Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-President of the Club of Rome from 2012 to 2018.

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The following questions, for example, will be discussed in lectures and workshops: How can agriculture adapt to the changing climate conditions? What contribution can organic farming make? Are technical reforms enough or do we need completely new concepts in crop production and animal husbandry? What role must politics and society play? What can individual farmers do in concrete terms?

Other speakers include Prof. Dr. Dr. Felix Ekardt, Head of the Sustainability and Climate Policy Research Unit, Prof. Dr. Rainer Roehe, Scottlands Rural College, Edinburgh, Dr. Anita Idel, author of the book "Die Kuh ist kein Klimakiller" (The cow is not a climate killer), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heß, University of Kassel, Department of Organic Crop Production.

Date: December 3-7, 2019
Location: University of Kassel, Nordbahnhofstraße 1A, 37213 Witzenhausen
   
For the program and more information, visit: www.konferenz-witzenhausen.de.

Witzenhausen is the location of the Department of Ecological Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel. The department has been working on issues related to the greening of agriculture for 30 years.

 

Press contact:

Valentin Friedl
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