Bernhard Freyer's research focuses on organic agriculture, food systems, and the public debate surrounding organic farming. He addresses both natural and social scientific perspectives, using disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research approaches. Since 2003, he has developed a 150-hectare organic research farm with long-term monitoring at BOKU. His teaching, publications, and research interests span a wide range of topics, including soil science, crop rotation, fertilization, biodiversity, climate change, social sciences, economics, transdisciplinarity, and ethics in organic agriculture and related agroecological fields. Currently, much of his research focuses on complex transformation processes in agro-food systems across temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions.
"Agriculture can only be understood as a whole. This requires a comprehensive understanding of systems, high competencies in sub-areas, and profound knowledge of the complex interactions between the ecological, social, ethical, production-technical, and economic dimensions."
Curriculum vitae
- 2024 Engagement with three international research institutes: IITA in Nairobi, Kenya; IFPRI in Washington DC, USA; and APNI in Morocco.
- 2024 Freelancer at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria, Faculty of Business and Administration.
- 2023 Academy Kirchberg Jagst Castle, Germany.
- 2020 Visiting Professor at Bahir Dar University, Institute of Disaster and Risk Management, Ethiopia.
- 2010/2011 Senior Fellow at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, USA.
- 1998-2022 Head of the Institute of Organic Agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria.
- 1990 to 1997 FiBL, Head of the Research Team for Landscape Economics and Ecology, Switzerland.
- 1984 to 1989 University of Kassel, Alternative Methods of Agriculture, doctorate on the conversion of farms to organic farming.
- 1984 Consultant at BIOLAND in Uhingen, Germany.
- 1983-1984 Agricultural assistant in Hohebuch, Germany.
- 1979-1983 Dipl. Agr. biol. - Agrobiology at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
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