School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL

• News

Researcher Diaries: Constraints and Opportunities of Cassava Seed Systems in South India

27.08.2020 In his #ThrowbackThursday contribution to the new Researcher Diaries series, Sebastian Mengel of the HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute looks back on a day in the field in South India in August 2018.

• Press Releases

New process simplifies microbial conversion of biomass into chemicals

27.08.2020 A team of scientists at BFH-HAFL has developed a process which uses an artificial consortium of microorganisms to convert wood into water-soluble sugars and further into chemicals in a single step.

• News

The new BFH-HAFL director

01.09.2020 Ute Seeling became the new director of BFH-HAFL on 1 September 2020, a role she undertook with pride and pleasure: ‘The school enjoys a very good reputation in Switzerland and far beyond’.

• News

Researcher Diaries: How mulch impacts crop yield in the tropics – a case study from Bolivia

03.09.2020 In her contribution to the Researcher Diaries series, Laura Kuonen, a BFH-HAFL Master’s Programme student, describes a day ploughing the field in Cochabamba, Bolivia in January 2019.

• News

Online instead of on-site: Presentation of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses

24.09.2020 Because of the coronavirus, there will be no colloquia or poster exhibition on-site in connection with this year’s graduation ceremonies at BFH-HAFL. Instead you will find the contributions online.

• News

BFH-HAFL students take part in the largest conference on tropical agriculture in central Europe

05.10.2020 From 9 to 11 September nine BFH-HAFL students participated in the largest annual conference on tropical agriculture in central Europe, Tropentag. Their presentations ranged from coffee agroforestry systems...

• News

Can small-scale Honduran coffee farmers build resilience post-COVID-19?

14.10.2020 BFH-HAFL research associate Dr Ingrid Fromm discusses how the pandemic is affecting local communities and highlights some of the resilience measures actors in the coffee sector are already implementing on...

• Information Event

ONLINE - Master of Science in Life Sciences - Food, Nutrition and Health 9.12.2020

BFH-HAFL teaches and conducts research in agricultural, forest and food sciences, and prepares MSc students for their professional future as methodologically competent and solution-oriented specialists and...

09.12.2020, 18:30-19:30 o'clock – Online

• Information Event

ONLINE - Master of Science in Life Sciences - Agricultural Science 9.12.2020

BFH-HAFL teaches and conducts research in agricultural, forest and food sciences, and prepares MSc students for their professional future as methodologically competent and solution-oriented specialists and...

09.12.2020, 18:30-19:30 o'clock – Online

• Information Event

ONLINE - Master of Science in Life Sciences Forest Science and Regional Management in Mountain Areas (the Alpine Master’s) 9.12.2020

BFH-HAFL teaches and conducts research in agricultural, forest and food sciences, and prepares MSc students for their professional future as methodologically competent and solution-oriented specialists and...

09.12.2020, 18:30-19:30 o'clock – Online

• Convention

POSTPONED – 5th international conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering SBEE

Due to the recent outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19, the 5th international conference on Soil, Bio- and Eco-Engineering SBEE 2020 has been postponed to 2021. Further information will follow as soon as...

01.01.2021 until 31.12.2021 – BFH-HAFL, Länggasse 85, 3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland