Research and consultancies are the base on which experience can continue to grow. As an agricultural social scientist, my interest is raised wherever it is about

• Establishing common grounds for work and action between people having different disciplinary or cultural backgrounds
• Developing possible action strategies and assessing their impact
• Orienting diverse activities towards commonly established goals and organizing collaboration of various institutions and stakeholder groups.

The main topics to which this type of work relates are organic farming, plant breeding, seed systems, biodiversity and global food security. Moreover, methodological issues concerning training, communication and extension are also addressed.

Cooperation is possible in the following ways:

• Developing project proposals for research or action research activities
• Coordinating and evaluating projects
• Writing reports, documentations and publications ( ► Books and Writings)

Examples from recent years:

• Developing methodologies for priority setting in plant breeding programs
• Participatory methods for characterizing, collecting and conserving agrobiodiversity
• Methodologies for assessing formal and informal seed systems and innovations in local seed systems
• Projects with children, young people and adults in the framework of the UN-Decade “Education for Sustainable Development”