The agriculture and food sector faces major challenges. Among others, these include climate change, protecting the air, soil, water and biodiversity, and providing a healthy diet to a growing population. Agroscope’s 2022–2025 Work Programme takes up these challenges.
What is the state of insects in Switzerland? What changes have there been, and what has caused them? Researchers study these questions in the project ‘INSECT’.
Vegetation in the track area must not impede rail traffic and must therefore be controlled. The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) have charged Agroscope with investigating alternative strategies to the herbicide glyphosate.
