Urs Niggli

Urs Niggli is one of the world’s foremost agricultural scientists and was the Director of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) until March 2020. Under his leadership FiBL grew from 20 staff to its current 200, became a leading research establishment in the area of organic agriculture, and developed into a European network with offices in Germany, France, Austria and Hungary as well as a representation in Brussels. 

• President of the Institute of Agroecology (agroecology.science)
• Member of the Board of FiBL Austria
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (EUPAHW)
• Member of the Project Advisory Board (Projekt:Rat) of agri:change, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Member of the Advisory Board of the German Environment Agency (UBA) research project "Food and Agriculture with a Future" (ErLa)
• Honorary Professor of "Research Management in International Organic Agriculture" at the University of Kassel-Witzenhausen, Germany; lecturer for the module "Principles of Organic Farming"
• Member of the Research Infrastructures Committee of the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat)

«In addition to ecologically and socially responsible agriculture my primary focus is also on nutrition. The immense pressure to keep increasing yields for a growing human population can be mitigated if we reduce food waste and feed less grain to livestock. Self-confident farmers are essential for global sustainability and food security.»

Urs Niggli’s detailed CV

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