Food supply in the city, urban agriculture and gardens

Program subject to change without notice.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

• 7:30 p.m.: "When a Garden Grows"
  Film by Ines Reinisch, Capitolkino Witzenhausen, followed by a film discussion with the director Ines Reinisch, Dr. Susanne Wiegel (Transition Town - Essen im Wandel) and Anna Rieterer (Intercultural Community Garden Witzenhausen) 

Friday, July 15, 2016

All events on Friday will take place at the University of Kassel in Witzenhausen, Kleine Aula, Nordbahnhofstrasse 1 a, Witzenhausen. 

The first part of the conference will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heß. After the coffee and communication break, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael A. Zöbisch will take over the moderation.

• 13:00: Welcome
  Hans Hemann, Chairman of the Witzenhausen University Association
  Prof. Dr. Peter von Fragstein, Dean of Faculty 11
  Angela Fischer, Mayor of the City of Witzenhausen

• 13:30: Urban Gardening: New Spaces between Urban Activism and Sustainable Agriculture
  Dr. Christa Müller, Stiftungsgemeinschaft anstiftung and ertomis, Munich

• 14:15: bauerngarten Berlin - community garden or business model?
  Max von Grafenstein, bauerngarten Berlin

• 15:00- 15:30: Coffee and communication break

• 15:30: Urban agriculture in West African cities - land, water, soil
  Juliane Dao, (Department of Organic Crop Production and Agroecosystem Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, FB 11), Witzenhausen

• 16:15: Transformation processes in rural-urban areas in Asia, using the example of Bangalore, India
  Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert, (Department of Organic Crop Production and Agroecosystem Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, FB 11), Witzenhausen

• 17:00 End