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Ulrich is a professor at Coventry University in England, United Kingdom. He is a co-founder of the university’s research centres on agroecology (CAFS, CAWR) based at Ryton Organic Gardens a 10 ha certified organic horticultural farm which Coventry University bought in 2019. Ulrich is an agricultural and horticultural scientist and economist by training and has 35 years experience in organic horticulture, food and farming research.
Ulrich has been working in multi-actor EU projects since framework-5, being task-, workpackage-leader, and coordinator in framework-8 (Horizon). The research is transdisciplinary, co-designed with innovative ecological food and farming businesses of any size and complexity (e.g. community supported agriculture). In his academic work Ulrich has specialised in organic horticulture, agroecology and ecological economics. Urban agroecology, agroforestry, vegan organic, bio-dynamic, social farming, and the environmental, social and governance issues of just food systems from the bottom-up are of interest. In addition, Ulrich has long expertise in modelling farm, environmental and policy/economics data sets. Example projects are: EU-Rotate-N, FOODMETRES, BioGreenhouse, Waste Few-ULL, Organic-PLUS, AGROMIX, UNDERTREES, Agroecology for Europe, FOOdIVERS.
Prior to the establishment of the agroecology centres, Ulrich has worked as a Horticultural Economist for Garden Organic (working name of the Henry Doubleday Reserach Association - HDRA) at Ryton Organic Gardens, and as visiting Professor of Organic Agriculture at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in South-Tyrol, Italy. His PhD was in an international research project with Israel and Philippines on tree-physiology and specifically salinity in mango rootstocks at Humboldt University Berlin. Non-academic professional work is as organic farm inspector and farm business consultant during the transition in East-Germany and Eastern Europe after 1989. Ulrich has an agricultural engineering and economics Diploma (MSc) and a BSc in Philosophy from Bonn and Munich universities (TU, LMU) in West-Germany. His family farm is in Bavaria, near Ingolstadt on the Danube.
Research Interests
Organic horticulture; Agroecology; Ecological economics; Urban agroecology including health and wellbeing of gardening; Governance, sustainability and standards of ecological food and farming systems; Social and ecological return on investment; organic agriculture, vegan organic, greenhouse crops, fruit trees, agroforestry, silvopasture and silvohorticulture
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- S Agriculture (General)
- Agroecology
- Agroforestry
- Organic horticulture
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management
- GE Environmental Sciences
- Agroecological Management
- G Geography (General)
- Human geography
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management
- Higher education studies
- HC Economic History and Conditions
- Management
- Organic agriculture
- Business growth strategy
- Economics of Higher Education
- JA Political science (General)
- Political Agroecology
- Political Ecology
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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UNDERTREES: Creating knowledge for Understanding ecosystem services of agroforestry systems through a holistic methodological framework
Binego, L., Rayns, F., Burbi, S., Dehnen-Schmutz, K., Schmutz, U. & Van De Wiel, M.
1/01/22 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Agroecology for Europe (AE4EU)
Schmutz, U., Conroy, J., Hilmi, A., Moeller, N., Pimbert, M., Bandakova, T., Binder, L., Burbi, S. & Dinc, S.
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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AGROMIX: AGROforestry and MIXed farming systems - Participatory research to drive the transition to a resilient and efficient land use in Europe
Schmutz, U., Dehnen-Schmutz, K., Eden, J., Rayns, F., Van De Wiel, M., Wright, J., Conroy, J., Venn, R., Burbi, S. & Touliatos, D.
1/11/20 → 31/10/24
Project: Research
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WASTE FEW ULL: Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Lab - Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Charlesworth, S., Schmutz, U., Fried, J., Rayns, F. & Van De Wiel, M.
1/06/18 → 31/05/21
Project: Research
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Organic-PLUS: Pathways to phase-out contentious inputs from organic agriculture in Europe
Schmutz, U., Conroy, J., Evans, A., Rayns, F., Green, S., Burbi, S., Touliatos, D. & van Kesteren, R.
1/05/18 → 30/10/22
Project: Research
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Challenging the food waste hierarchy
Parsa, A. A., Van De Wiel, M., Schmutz, U., Fried, J., Black, D. & Roderick, I., 15 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Environmental Management. 344, 13 p., 118554.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Testing Food Waste Reduction Targets: Integrating Transition Scenarios with Macro-Valuation in an Urban Living Lab
Black, D., Wei, T., Eaton, E., Hunt, A., Carey, J., Schmutz, U., He, B. & Roderick, I., 30 Mar 2023, In: Sustainability. 15, 7, 20 p., 6004.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transforming food systems towards agroecology–a critical analysis of agroforestry and mixed farming policy in 19 European countries
Buratti-Donham, J., Venn, R., Schmutz, U. & Migliorini, P., 8 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 47, 7, p. 1023-1051 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Agroecological Screening of Copper Alternatives for the Conservation of Soil Health in Organic Olive Production
Kir, A., Cetinel, B., Sevim, D., Gungor, F. O., Rayns, F., Touliatos, D. & Schmutz, U., 20 Jul 2022, In: Agronomy. 12, 7, 13 p., 1712.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Characterising the diversity of aubergine landraces in Turkey
Kir, A., Cetinel, B., Cetinkaya, N., Conroy, J. & Schmutz, U., Dec 2022, In: Acta Horticulturae. 1354, p. 79-85 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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Danish Organic Research, Development and Demonstration program (Organic RDD 6) faciliatated by the ‘International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems' (ICROFS). (Event)
Ulrich Schmutz (Associate Editor)
1 May 2020 → 1 Aug 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Sustainability (Journal)
Sara Burbi (Guest Editor), Ulrich Schmutz (Guest Editor) & Moya Kneafsey (Guest Editor)
1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Mainstreaming Agroecology – What does it mean for Horticulture and Horticultural Science? 30th International Horticulture Congress. 12-16 Aug 2018. Istanbul, TurkeyWorkshop on Agroecology and Horticulture
Ulrich Schmutz (Speaker)
12 Aug 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Organic-PLUS: Agroecology and the development of organic food systems all across Europe. V International Conference on organic farming in Belarus Organic and Sustainable Agriculture: Meeting the Global Challenges 22 February 2018 – Minsk, Belarus
Ulrich Schmutz (Speaker)
22 Feb 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Certification standards for urban farming
Ulrich Schmutz (Speaker) & Margi Lennartsson Turner (Speaker)
30 Sept 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk