15.07.2024
On 10 July 2024, Dr. Felix Zoll received the Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer Prize of the Förderverein für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften (Association for the Promotion of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for the best doctoral thesis. The award recognises his outstanding dissertation, which examines alternative food networks to investigate how the spatial and social separation of food production and consumption can be overcome.
In today's globalised world, the strong separation between food production and consumption often leads to problems. These include environmental pollution, lack of transparency and trust, unfair production conditions and the loss of biodiversity and local cultures. Felix Zoll's work has looked at community-supported agriculture, food cooperatives and self-harvest gardens. These alternative food networks (AFNs) offer a promising solution by actively involving consumers in the production and distribution of food. This promotes both physical and social proximity and enables transparent, fair production conditions. As part of a social movement, AFNs can thus contribute to a value-based food system and provide a small-scale example of a more sustainable approach to food.
The dissertation is entitled "Reconnecting Production and Consumption in Alternative Food Networks - Motivations, Drivers and Socio-economic Implications" and was written in cooperation between the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The work was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller and Dr. Rosemarie Siebert at ZALF.
Since 1996, the Albrecht-Daniel-Thaer Prize has honored outstanding doctoral theses and graduates of the Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
We congratulate Dr Felix Zoll on this well-deserved award!
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