Field of expertise:

The Chair of Organic Agriculture is part of the Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding II within the faculty 09: Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences and Environmental Management of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen.
Lecturing fields:

1. Organic Farming

2. General Plant Cultivation

In 2002 the Anglo-American system of Bachelor- and Masterstudy was installed.
Important departments of the Chair of Organic Farming:

The organically managed university farm for education and reseach, Gladbacherhof
(90 ha).

The field-trial-station Gladbacherhof

Research fields:

• Sustainable Energy and food production:
  Biogas in stockless and mixed organically managed farms
  Optimized mixed cropping systems for biogas production
  Feed value properties and methane production
  Regional network for sustaining bioenergy production “Central Hesse”
  
• Husbandry and Soil Fertility:
  Long-term effects of stockless organic farming and reduced soil tillage intensity
  
• Culivation of annual plants:
  Wide row spacing of winter wheat
  
• Biological Plant Protection:
  Dissemination of the Western Corn Root Worm in Europe and especially in Germany
  Nanofibers, a novel tool for insect control with volatiles
  
  

Role in the project:
External member of the Platform.