GAIA Jahrestreffen 2025 2025-03-09 Agri-food systems revisited: Systems Approaches and their Role in the Transformation Date Friday, April 4th to Saturday, April 5th, 2025Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 (preceded by a publication workshop)Hosting Institution Lehrstuhl für Gesellschaftliche Transformation und Landwirtschaft, Universität Hohenheim, StuttgartLocation Universität Hohenheim, Schloss 1, 70599 StuttgartSchedule of the Annual Meeting https://gaia.oekom.de/index.php/gaia/GAIA-JT-Hohenheim-2025 GAIA Jahrestreffen 2025 The aim is to explore in more detail, using agriculture and food as examples, what an understanding of systems means and what implications this has for research, teaching and practice. The keynote speakers are already confirmed: environmental scientist and cyberneticist Ray Ison will introduce us to systems approaches, before agricultural sociologist Marianne Penker will take a closer look at specific agricultural and food systems.The event will be organised in close collaboration with student groups; for international participants, programme events will be offered in English.
New issue GAIA 34/3 (2025) November 20, 2025 This latest issue of GAIA features a contribution on the impact of narrative futures | a report on the serious digital game Foodscape | and a discussion about the sub-standard conditions for German teachers teaching sustainability and climate protection in schools