Anne Challandes

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Anne Challandes is a Swiss lawyer , farmer and, since 2019, President of the Swiss Association of Farmers and Rural Women.

Live and act

Anne Challande studied law at the University of Neuchâtel and graduated with a bachelor's degree. She then completed her legal clerkship from 1991 to 1993 and passed the state examination.

From 1994 to 1997 she worked as a research assistant in the Federal Council in Bern. From 2000 she was Neuchâtel's correspondent for the Swiss agricultural newspaper Agrihebdo in Lausanne for 17 years .

Anne Challande came to agriculture through her marriage. Together with her husband and son, she runs a 65-hectare farm with suckler cows in the Fontainemelon in Neuchâtel . The family grows wheat, barley, rape, maize, lupins , quinoa and the East African dwarf millet teff . The company will be converted to organic certification in 2020 . Challandes is married and has four children.

Volunteering

Anne Challandes has been President of the Swiss Association of Farmers and Rural Women (SBLV) since April 2019.

In November 2019 she was elected Vice President of the Swiss Farmers' Association (SBV). She is only the second woman in this role.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Aline Wanner, Matthias Daum, Sarah Jäggi: Women: The year brings so many new things! In: The time . Hamburg January 7, 2019 ( zeit.de [accessed January 22, 2020]).
  2. a b Freshly elected Ann Challandes as Vice President. Landfreund, November 21, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  3. Challandes is the new president of the women farmers. Schweizer Bauer, April 25, 2019, accessed on January 22, 2020 .
  4. Board of Directors. Swiss Federation of Farmers and Rural Women, accessed on January 22, 2020 .