Bettina Scharrer

Areas of professional focus at CDE

• Sustainable development paths in the food sector
• Organic farming
• Social and solidarity economy
• Sociocultural aspects of landscape and regional development
• Sustainable regional and landscape development

​Projects

• The importance of the solidarity economy for the development of organic farming in Europe, past and present
• The cultural dimension of sustainable regional and landscape development; part of COST Action IS1007: Investigating Cultural Sustainability (completed)

Further professional interests

• Impacts of intensive animal husbandry
• Environmental history and politics
• Agricultural politics and history
• Agriculture and sustainability
• Global food security

Field experience

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