Food Day @ETH 2023
World Food System Center Research Symposium 2023
Food Day @ETH 2023 brought together a diverse audience from academia, industry, government and international organizations with the public for interactive discussions and workshops on food systems innovation and research.
The event kicked off with workshops in the afternoon, focusing on topics including grassland use, nutrition, and science policy.
The plenary session focused on topic of engaging youth in food systems transformation. The symposium gave young researchers and practitioners a chance to share their ideas and passion. Oral presentations from Center funded projects highlighted research on agriculture, nutrition, and equitable livelihoods. Guests then joined in a cross-generational chat about empowering actors to transform the food system. The Networking Poster Session highlighted innovative research from across the food system.
Date: Thursday, 02 November 2023
Times: 14:30 – 17:00 (Workshops & Coffee Break)
17:15 – 21:00 CET (Plenary & Networking Poster Session)
Location: ETH Zurich, Main Building (HG), AudiMax
Impressions from Food Day @ETH 2023
Eva Galle presents here research about lactate-fortified foods' impact on improved muscle function (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Hanna Lesme presents her work on astringency perception of plant-based products (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess).
Jeanne Tomaszewski, WFSC Communication and Outreach Manager, moderating the discussion round on nutrition for sustainable food with the Future Food Fellows Eva Galle, Georg Aichinger, and Hanna Lesme (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Eileen Ziehmann and Mélanie Surchat discussing sustainable agriculture and livelihoods (Image: WFSC/ Selina Hess). Discussion session on empowering food system actors to accelerate transformation moderated by Martijn Sonnevelt (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Anik Thaler from fabas shares her experiences with Shun Hei Lee, Laura Nyström, and the audience (Image: WFSC/ Selina Hess). The coffee break after the workshops (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess).
Discussions during the Networking Poster Session (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Lively discussions during the Networking Poster Session (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Discussions during the Networking Poster Session (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Discussions during the Networking Poster Session (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Discussions during the Networking Poster Session (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess). Poster prize winners with Martijn Sonnevelt (Image: WFSC/Selina Hess).
14:30 – 16:30 Afternoon Workshop Program
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session in AudiMax Foyer
17:15 – 19:15 Plenary Session in AudiMax
19:15 – 21:00 Networking Poster Session with Reception in AudiMax Foyer
A networking poster session highlighting ongoing research and Center activities offers participants the chance to interact directly with researchers. And vote for your favorite poster.
Workshops
Food Day @ETH 2023 kicked off with workshops in the afternoon: (1) Unlocking the Potential of Precision Nutrition, (2) Best Practices for the Science-Policy Interface, and (3) More than Cheese: Multifunctional Grasslands for Ecosystem Services. Find out more
Networking Poster Session
A networking poster session showcased over 40 posters displaying ongoing food system research and Center initiatives and offered participants the chance to interact directly with researchers. The audience selected three poster awards during the session.
Microbial biodiversity of fermented foods: A nutritional, cultural, and economic resource by Lena Flörl, Rodrigo Hernández-Velázquez, Anton Lavrinienko and Nicholas A. Bokulich
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Mixed cropping of lentils and oats reduces input requirements and increases productivity in Swiss agriculture by Yannik Schlup, Filippo Carmenati, Johan Six and Susanne Vogelgsang
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Impact of fermentation on cereal β-glucan in plant-based yogurt by Olivia Zehnder-Wyss, Carolina O. Pandeirada, Samy Boulos, Laura Nyström, Silvia Cera, Fabio Tuccillo and Kati Katina
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Download posters from the Netwoking Poster Session.
All the abstracts can be found in the DownloadFood Day @ETH 2023 Proceedings (PDF, 1.1 MB).
- Indicators for grassland multifunctionality, Klaus et al.
- Nitrogen cycling in tropical pastures in the Northwestern Amazon, Villegas et al.
- DownloadConsumers’ willingness to substitute dairy with plant-based alternatives (PDF, 1001 KB), Pronk et al.
- DownloadOn the traces of stable isotopes from grass to milk – An investigative workshop for high-school classes (PDF, 1.6 MB), Keller et al.
- Exhalomics as a non-invasive method for assessing rumen fermentation in dairy cows: Can exhaled breath metabolomics replace rumen sampling?, Islam et al.
- DownloadEcosystem services of temperate grasslands under climatic extremes: A literature review (PDF, 2.3 MB), Wang et al.
- DownloadMixed intercropping between four lentil and three hull-less barley varieties: Performance under Swiss climatic conditions (PDF, 2.2 MB), Carmenati et al.
- DownloadMixing things up! Identifying early diversity benefits and facilitating the development of crop variety mixtures with High Throughput Field Phenotyping (PDF, 755 KB), Tschurr & Oppliger et al.
- DownloadMixed cropping of lentils and oats reduces input requirements and increases productivity in Swiss agriculture (JPEG, 371 KB), Schlup et al.
- Mapping agroecology in Switzerland, Teuber et al.
- DownloadUnderstanding drivers and origins of nitrous oxide fluxes in agroecosystems (PDF, 1.9 MB), Turco et al.
- Accumulation of organic-waste derived phosphorus in the topsoil, Alvarez et al.
- DownloadAttract-and-infest strategy to biologically control adult Japanese beetles (PDF, 571 KB), Wey et al.
- DownloadA landscape-scale biodiversity impacts analysis of Côte d'Ivoire’s cocoa cultivation along export supply chains (PDF, 1.3 MB), Wang et al.
- DownloadTradeoffs between soil conservation and herbicide-free agriculture: The underlying behavioral factors (PDF, 212 KB), Garcia Gomez et al.
- The potential for agroecology in Malawi: A policy analysis, Bezner Kerr et al.
- DownloadAgroforestry as a potential sociotechnical transition of Swiss agriculture? Interest, viability and feasibility to farmers (PDF, 814 KB), Le Goff et al.
- Consumer acceptance of policy instruments to increase sustainability in food consumption, Arbenz et al.
- DownloadTools for resilient and sustainable regional food strategies (PDF, 358 KB), Donadieu de Lavit et al.
- DownloadAgricultural wages amidst turmoil: Evidence from Myanmar (PDF, 4.8 MB), Laitha et al.
- DownloadHow youth are pioneering food system transformation in secondary cities in Bangladesh (PDF, 401 KB), Rashid et al.
- Predicting in vivo endocrine-disruptive effects of beer polyphenols by physiologically based kinetic modeling and quantitative in vitro to in vivo extrapolation, Stevanoska et al.
- DownloadEmpowering informal food service workers through unionization (PDF, 3.3 MB), Illien et al.
- DownloadMarking raw materials with DNA to identify food products along the supply chain (PDF, 387 KB), Meta Kallfelz et al.
- DownloadDigital twins of refrigerated trailers to optimize fresh fruit cold chains (PDF, 1.3 MB), Tobler et al.
- DownloadFinghting food contaminantion with artificial intelligence: A general framework for rapid identifying food toxin-degrading enzymes (PDF, 3.8 MB), Zhang et al.
- DownloadMicrobial biodiversity of fermented foods: A nutritional, cultural, and economic resource (PDF, 736 KB), Flörl & Hernández-Velázquez et al.
- DownloadImplementing improved agronomic management practice for yield improvement of Zn-enriched rice varieties in Bangladesh (PDF, 434 KB), Nwokoro et al.
- DownloadAddressing the double burden of malnutrition in Rwanda’s secondary cities (PDF, 2.3 MB), Demekas et al.
- DownloadQuality and quantity of employment in local agri-food value chains: Does farm size matter? (PDF, 1.8 MB), Aremu et al.
- DownloadAssessment of the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Ukrainian agriculture: Policy insights for food security (PDF, 242 KB), Nehrey et al.
- DownloadImpacts of dynamic agroforestry systems on food security – A case study of cocoa production in Ecuador (PDF, 595 KB), Renggli et al.
- DownloadAssessment of pea flowering by using high throughput field phenotyping (PDF, 1.1 MB), Oppliger et al.
- DownloadRefining of pea and rapeseed protein using Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (PDF, 727 KB), Dumpler et al.
- DownloadWhat are the most promising protein sources for meat alternatives? (PDF, 980 KB), Etter et al.
- DownloadEnzyme technology in tailoring potato protein towards “meat-mimicking” properties (PDF, 444 KB), Bouvard et al.
- DownloadConsumer perception of cell-cultured fish (PDF, 617 KB), Lanz et al.
- DownloadImpact of fermentation on cereal β-glucan in plant-based yogurt (PDF, 975 KB), Zehnder-Wyss et al.
Read more about previous Food Days @ETH and other public events here.