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.
GAIA-Event Transformation Talks April 16, 2025 GAIA Transformation Talk #1: “(Un)Ruhig bleiben in polarisierenden Zeiten: Neue Perspektiven für die Transformationsforschung” | Now online: The inputs from Milena Riede, Dennis Eversberg, and Johanna Siebert
New issue GAIA 34/1 (2025) April 3, 2025 This latest issue of GAIA features participatory mapping with Gaiagraphy | community-based participatory research | and an analysis of how language shapes the mobility transition