Biovision
For a healthy planet thanks to sustainable food and ecological development
In focus
Let’s grow change – How healthy value-creation systems thrive
The Biovision Symposium on 26 October is over. Here you can look up the event and gain some impressions.
Articles and stories
About us
Gautschi: “Promoting Biovision as an innovative, forward-looking organisation”
Anders Gautschi will take up the post of new Biovision CEO on 1 January 2025. In this short interview, he answers questions about his motivation and goals.
About us
Anders Gautschi to become new CEO of Biovision
On 1 January 2025, Anders Gautschi will take over as the new CEO of Biovision. Mr Gautschi previously served as the Director of the Swiss Association for Transport and Environment (VCS).
About us, Politics
The future of development cooperation
Parliament’s planned budget cuts to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) raise major questions for NGOs such as Biovision. Loredana Sorg, Co-Head of International Partnerships at Biovision, talks about the impact on long-term projects, the importance of stable funding and how international cooperation plays a central role in global development processes, even and especially in times of criticism.
About us
Symposium 2024: Let’s grow change
Sustainable production alone is not enough! Harvests must be processed, sold and farmers need to be paid fairly. The recent Biovision event put the spotlight on initiatives that close gaps in the value chain and actively shape the future of food.
Our projects
Agriculture
Innovative approach to fighting malaria
Whoever lives in the vicinity of their livestock in Kenya is at increased risk of contracting malaria or another potentially deadly disease. Through an innovative research project, Biovision is making a virtue of necessity.
Agriculture, Markets
Neycha: The First Agroecology Accelerator and Fund
Agroecological enterprises are a key element in the transformation towards just and sustainable food systems. To enable them to scale up and create more local jobs and impact, we and our partner organization Shona set up the Neycha Accelerator & Fund to provide capacity building, networking and access to capital.
Knowledge
Sounding Soil – healthy soil makes noise
Soils that are alive make sounds – and soils that are cultivated in different ways sound different from one another. The research and art project “Sounding Soil” makes these sounds audible. Biovision uses “Sounding Soil” to sensitise the population, students, farmers and decision makers about sustainably managing soils.
Facts and Figures
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Become a member
As a member of Biovision, you become part of an organization that is consistently committed to improving living conditions in sub-Saharan Africa over the long term. You make a decisive contribution to ensuring that the people in our projects can sustainably improve their living conditions through ecological methods. In addition, your contribution supports the important work of raising awareness in politics and among consumers.
