The Research Institute for Organic Farming Germany (FiBL Germany) is located in Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 2000, it is one of six FiBL institutions in Europe (Switzerland, Austria, France, Hungary and FiBL Europe in Brussels).

FiBL Germany offers scientific services for the organic farming and food sector, particularly at the interface between research and practice. It conducts interdisciplinary and practice-orientated research together with farmers and experts from science and industry. In this way, knowledge from research is quickly transferred into practice. The main areas of work are the input list, animal welfare, the FiBL Academy with the nationwide Organic Field Days, sustainable farming systems, value chains and the out-of-home catering.

FiBL Germany relies on a team of scientific staff from a wide variety of disciplines such as agricultural sciences, horticulture, nutritional science, biology, food technology and business administration. Over time, a range of disciplines emerged in which FiBL Germany accumulated a substantial amount of specialist knowledge and built vast networks.

Sabine Ersing’s research is located in the field of sustainable farming systems and mainly focuses on water protection through and within organic farming. Ana Stephan is part of the FiBL Academy and is mainly involved in the training and further education of young talents, consulting and inspection staff as well as practitioners in the organic food sector.

Within the VISIONARY project FiBL Germany leads Work package 1 – Engagement, communication, dissemination and exploitation and coordinates communication within the project and externally. In WP 1, FiBL Germany further coordinates the organization and implementation of the Cross-Country-Visits (T1.4) with the objective to showcase successful initiatives to different stakeholders across Europe and to provide a knowledge and experience exchange platform across specific topics investigated in the project. Thematically, FiBL leads T5.2 – Transition towards 25% agricultural land under organic farming by 2030, with the aim to find potential drivers and barriers on the way to more organic farming in Europe.