Line-up Symposion Dürnstein 2024

Food security has been a key issue since the earliest times. Soil, water, climate and, above all, biodiversity are crucial to this. The industrialisation of agriculture and globalisation have changed a great deal in the last hundred years. Although more food is being produced, hunger and malnutrition affect around a third of humanity. The loss of water, soil, biodiversity and the spread of toxic industrial chemicals jeopardise food security.
The Dürnstein Symposium asks experts from a wide range of fields which solution scenarios they consider crucial for future food security.

The 13th Symposium Dürnstein will take place from 14 to 16 March 2024 at Dürnstein Abbey in the Wachau region. The organiser is the Gesellschaft für Forschungsförderung Niederösterreich.

We can already announce the following speakers: 

Tania Martinez Cruz, indigenous activist and researcher, consultant in the Indigenous Peoples Department of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations). Degrees in Irrigation Engineering (Mexico), Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (USA) and Social Sciences (Netherlands). Head of international projects focussing on water management, rural and agricultural development, gender and social inclusion.

Gunther Hirschfelder, Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg, research focus: cultural-scientific food and agricultural research with a historical and contemporary perspective.

Sofia Monsalve, Secretary General of the human rights organisation FIAN
(FoodFirst Information and Action Network)

Hanni Rützler, food trend researcher, nutritionist, health psychologist, entrepreneur.

Josef Settele, Head of the Department of Conservation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. Main research interests: Ecology of insects in cultivated landscapes, biodiversity, land use and social-ecological systems.

Franz Sinabell, expert on agricultural issues, WIFO - Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Information on further speakers and ongoing programme updates at: Programme
 

We have started the ticket sales.There are attendance and onlinetickets.

The attendance tickets include:

• Catering: Lunch and snacks during the breaks; drinks
• Guided tours of Dürnstein Abbey
• Shuttle Vienna - Dürnstein and return