Felix zu Löwenstein

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Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born February 15, 1954 in Hees ( Weeze )) is a German agricultural scientist and farmer. He is known as a critic of modern industrial agriculture.

He is a younger brother of Karl Prinz zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg .

After completing school at the St. Blasien Jesuit College , Löwenstein studied at the Agricultural Faculty of the Technical University of Munich in Weihenstephan and graduated in 1982 with a doctorate. After three years of development work in Haiti , he took over his parents' agricultural and forestry business and converted the estate in southern Hesse, which the family has owned for 500 years, to organic production .

Prince zu Löwenstein holds various honorary positions in organic farming organizations: Chairman of the Board of the Federal Organic Food Industry (BÖLW) and board member of the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL Germany). In 2011 he published his book Food Crash , which was described by Deutschlandradio Kultur as an “impressive and convincing plea for ecological agriculture” and by Spektrum der Wissenschaft as a “plea for a more sustainable and fairer agricultural system”. In 2016 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for his versatile commitment to organic farming.

Prince zu Löwenstein is active in the Order of Malta .

He has been married to Elisabeth Countess of Meran (* 1955) since 1977 and has six daughters. He lives in Otzberg-Habitzheim in southern Hesse .

Web links

Publications

  • Food crash. We will eat organically or not at all . Pattloch-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-629-02300-1 .
  • Ecological intensification - a sustainable model for global food security. In: Political Ecology. 128 (2012), Oekom-Verlag
  • Can organic farming feed the world? (PDF) Online Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . Retrieved September 18, 2014 .
  • Benefit from organic farming worldwide In: Ecology and farming. Issue 165 1/2013
  • Sustainable food security through ecological intensification. In: Roundtables of the Commission for Ecology. Volume 40, Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
  • Water shortage (Haiti). In: Manana. Development workers report from three continents. Signal Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-7971-0266-6 .
  • Industrial agriculture failed in the fight against hunger. Interview by Thomas Wardenbach on Sonnseite.com
  • There is enough. For all. When we fight hunger and not nature . Knaur 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-78740-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical database
  2. ^ Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein on dealing with the ongoing drought on August 21, 2018
  3. ↑ Author portrait of the publisher
  4. ↑ Author portrait of the publisher
  5. ↑ a b c Food Crash. Blurb
  6. ↑ This agriculture has no future - Felix zu Löwenstein: "Food Crash. We will eat ecologically or not at all" Deutschlandradio Kultur , September 25, 2011.
  7. ↑ The third "green revolution"? , Spectrum of Science , September 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein, Felix too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein, Felix Prince too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agronomist and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hees (Weeze)