Innovative agricultural research at the Weihenstephan campus
Food security, climate protection, energy supply, resource conservation, health: society is facing these central challenges in the coming decades. At Weihenstephan, the agricultural sciences of the Technical University of Munich work in close cooperation with forestry, environmental and nutritional sciences as well as food technology. The goal: Solving Global Challenges
The Hans Eisenmann Forum is the central institute for agricultural sciences at TUM. It connects the agricultural science oriented chairs within TUM as well as with partners.For further information look into "About us".
Climate change confronts agriculture with enormous challenges. How agriculture can cope with the changes and prevent further warming are key issues in agricultural research.
Digitization and robotics are fundamentally changing agriculture. These technologies make work easier for farmers. They can also make it possible to operate in a more environmentally friendly way.
Agroforestry systems combine elements of arable farming and animal husbandry with forestry. As a result, they have positive effects on the ecosystem and the economy.
Vertical agriculture can produce food in large quantities and consistent quality, regardless of environmental conditions. It thus offers enormous potential, e.g. for feeding the population in growing metropolitan areas.
Better alignment with the market is one of the goals pursued by the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in recent decades. One of the measures used to achieve this was to decouple direct payments from production. Agricultural economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now found that this form of direct payments makes farms more productive. Despite higher productivity, the environmental impact remains at a comparable level.
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Start-up ideas for sustainable technologies were awarded the TUM IDEAward. First and second place went to student teams working on a sensor system for precision agriculture and microalgae for fish farming respectively.
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After a 4-year break, Agritechnica, the world's leading trade fair for agricultural technology, can finally take place again this year. TUM is presenting current agricultural research and the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in agriculture there - together with the State Research Institute for Agriculture (LfL) and Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (HSWT).
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In his dissertation, Dr. Martin Mittermayer investigated how digital technologies can be used to record yields and identify nitrogen losses in subplots. He has now been awarded the Ernst Klapp Future Prize in Crop Science for his work.
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Successful start to the semester at TUM Campus Weihenstephan: The study programs in agriculture at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Weihenstephan are once again registering a remarkable increase. In the winter semester, around 150 young people are starting their bachelor’s degree in Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences. The number of freshers is now at a new high.
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A growing world population is encountering increasingly difficult conditions for food production. How the growing number of people can be supplied with sufficient, high-quality and sustainable proteins in the future was discussed by experts at the AgriScience Symposium 2023 of the Hans Eisenmann-Forum for Agricultural Sciences (HEF).
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You are cordially invited to the HEF Agricultural Science Symposium: "The World Needs New Proteins"! We are delighted to welcome you on October 12th and 13th, 2023, in Weihenstephan, Germany.
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Minimizing the use of antibiotics without compromising animal welfare: Julia Steinhoff-Wagner, Professor of Animal Nutrition and Metabolism at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is working on a new research project to ascertain how this can be achieved in the field of poultry farming. In this interview, she explains how antibiotic use relates to animal health and nutrition.
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Getting together, exchanging ideas and exploring opportunities for future collaboration: At the first Science Dating on September 28, scientists from Weihenstephan took the opportunity to get to know each other and their work. More than 60 researchers from various disciplines took up the invitation and networked with each other. This created the basis for promising joint research initiatives in the future.
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The cultivation of plant-based food and energy crops is often accompanied by the production of by-products that are unsuitable for human consumption. TUM graduate Anton Vorndran addressed the amount of these by-products in his master's thesis. He has now been awarded the prize of the German Society for Animal Production (DGfZ) in the master's thesis category for this work.
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