Hans Rudolf Herren

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hans Rudolf Herren (2009)

Hans Rudolf Herren (born November 30, 1947 in Mühleberg ) is a Swiss entomologist , agricultural and development expert. As a pioneer in biological pest control , in the 1980s he successfully combated the mealybugs , which threatened the important staple food cassava in Africa . This is said to have contributed decisively to preventing a famine . Men were the first Swiss to be awarded the World Food Prize in 1995 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2013 . Herren received the latter award together with Biovision - Foundation for Ecological Development , which he founded in 1998.

career

After studying agronomy and obtaining a doctorate in biological pest control at the ETH Zurich as well as a postdoc in the field of biological insect control at the University of California in Berkeley, Hans Rudolf Herren started working at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture) in 1979 ) in Nigeria.

At that time, the mealybug, which was accidentally introduced from South America, threatened the manioc cultures. Cassava, originally also imported from South America, is an important staple food in Africa. It is mainly grown by small farmers and provides more than 50 percent of the food energy for 200 million people.

Instead of the largely ineffective and at the same time environmentally threatening use of pesticides against mealybugs, Herren implemented the largest biological control program to date. Through the use of parasitic wasps that were identified in 1984 in Paraguay as a natural enemy of the mealybug, the pest could be fought. In 1993, a natural equilibrium between parasitic wasps and mealybugs was established in Africa, causing the mealybird population to drop to harmless levels in 30 countries. Contrary to the fears, there was no major famine, which would have affected up to 20 million people.

After working at IITA, Herren headed the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Kenya from 1994 to 2005, where he developed biological solutions for other pest problems, in particular push-pull technology in maize. Since 2005 he has been President and CEO of the Millennium Institute in Washington, DC (USA), which advises governments in over 40 nations on the implementation of sustainability goals. In addition, men in 2008 was co-author and co-chair of the Testing of six UN agencies and the World Bank IAASTD World Agricultural Council (IAASTD).

With the prize money from the World Food Prize and other prizes, Hans Rudolf Herren founded the non-profit organization Biovision in 1998, which promotes sustainable agriculture and biological pest control in Africa. Through basic and information projects in East Africa as well as global advocacy activities, Biovision promotes ecological thinking and action in both the north and the south.

Other affiliations:

position

Based on his extensive experience in biological pest control, sustainable agriculture and rural development, Hans Herren is an outspoken advocate of agroecology and organic, sustainable agriculture. According to Herren, genetically modified organisms (GMO) currently, and very likely also in the future, do not bring any significant economic and social advantage for poor smallholders, as they also considerably weaken the resilience of agriculture by reducing the genetic diversity of crops. According to Herren, “today's GMOs no longer produce food. It is much more likely that they reduce production costs in the first few years before insects and weeds strike back again, according to the experience with pesticides. ”It is therefore better to work with an integrated agro-ecological, holistic approach in order to avoid pest plagues and if necessary to combat and thus protect farmers from costly license agreements with seed companies and the use of specific herbicides.

As described in the IAASTD World Agricultural Report, Herren advocates a paradigm shift from industrial agriculture with external energy dependencies to multifunctional agriculture that promotes a systematic approach to production and problem solving. In terms of research and implementation, the report recommends various measures on a sub-global and global level with a view to current and future food security.

Awards

  • 1991: Sir and Lady Rank Award for Nutrition
  • 1991: Merit Award for Outstanding Service to Crop Protection from the XII International Plant Protection Congress at Rio de Janeiro
  • 1995: World Food Prize ( World Food Prize )
  • 1995: Kilby International Awards
  • 2002: Brandenberger Award for his efforts to improve nutrition and livelihoods
  • 2003: Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
  • 2004: Honorary Professor (Prof. hc), Hubei University, Wuhan, PRC
  • 2004: Honorary Doctorate (Doctor's Science Honoris Causa), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
  • 2010: One World Award
  • 2013: Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel Prize")
  • 2014: SwissAward in the "Society" category
  • 2016: Sustainability Award from Neumarkter Lammsbräu

Publications by gentlemen

  • This is how we feed the world . Rüfer & Rub Verlag Zurich, 2016. ISBN 978-3-906304-05-2
  • The food crisis - causes and recommendations in: Universitas 4/2009, pp. 335–345. ( PDF )
  • A guide to feeding the world in: Hunger in Abundance (Worldwatch Institute (ed.))
  • Herren, HR (2011). "No sustainable development without healthy, nutritious and culturally adapted food for all". UNEP Perspectives on Rio + 20 on
  • Pretty, Jules; Sutherland, William J .; Ashby, Jacqueline; Auburn, Jill; Baulcombe, David; Bell, Michael; Bentley, Herren, Hans; .... “The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture”, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Volume 8, Number 4, November 30, 2010
  • Herren, HR; Mbogo, C. “The Role of DDT in Malaria Control,” Environmental Health Perspectives, 2010
  • Beverly D. McIntyre, Hans R. Herren, Judi Wakhungu, Robert T. Watson : "IAASTD International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: Global Report.", International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development ( Project), Island Press, 2009
  • Andrea M. Bassi, A. Drake, EL Tennyson and HR Herren. 2009. “Evaluating the Creation of a Parallel Non-Oil Transportation System in an Oil Constrained Future”, TRB Conference: Annual Conference of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, January 11-15, 2009, Washington DC, USA.
  • Pasquet RS, Peltier A, Hufford MB, Oudin E, Saulnier J, Paul L, Knudsen JT, Herren HR, Gepts P. 2008. Long-distance pollen flow assessment through evaluation of pollinator foraging range suggests transgene escape distances. PNAS: 2008; 105 (36): 13456-6
  • Herren, H. & Baumgärtner, J. (2007). From Integrated Pest Management to adaptive Ecosystem Management. In SJ Scherr & JA McNeely (Eds.), Farming with Nature: the science and practice of ecoagriculture. Washington DC: Island Press.
  • Fritz J. Häni, Laszlo Pinter and Hans R Herren. 2007. Sustainable Agriculture: from common principles to common practices. Proceeding and outputs of the first symposium of the international forum on assessing sustainability in agriculture. March 16, 2006, Bern, Switzerland. Edited by Fritz J. Häni, Laszlo Pinter and Hans R Herren. Published by IISD
  • Leif Christian Stige, Jørn Stave, Kung-Sik Chan, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Nathalie Pettorelli, Michael Glantz, Hans R. Herren, and Nils Chr. Stenseth. From the Cover: The effect of climate variation on agro-pastoral production in Africa. PNAS 2006 103: 3049-3053.
  • Herren, HR 2005. Sustainable Pest Management for Global Food Security. In: Entymology at the Land Grant University Perspectives from the Texas A&M University Centenary. Kevin M. Heinz, Raymond E. Frisbie, Carlos Enrique Bográn (Eds.), 2003 Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX / USA
  • Herren, HR 2003. The War against Poverty: the Way Forward. In Resource Management for Poverty Reduction: Approaches and Technologies, Selected Contributions to Ethio-Forum 2002. Aseffa Abreha, Getachew Tikubet and Johann Baumgaertner (eds). Published by the Ethiopian Social Rehabilitation Fund
  • Herren, HR 2003. Genetically engineered crops and sustainable agriculture, in: Methods for Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants, 35, IV. Biodiversity and Biotechnology. K. Ammann, Y. Jacot and R. Braun (eds), 2003 Birkhäuser Verlag Basel / Switzerland
  • Zeddies J., Schaab RP, Neuenschwander P., Herren HR Economics of biological control of cassava mealybug in Africa (2001) Agricultural Economics, 24 (2), pp. 209-219.
  • Herren, HR, Neuenschwander, P. 1991. Biological control of cassava pests in Africa. Annual Review of Entomology 36: 257-283.
  • Gutierrez, AP, B. Wermelinger, F. Schulthess, JU Baumgärtner, HR Herren, CK Ellis & JS Yaninek, 1988. Analysis of biological control of cassava pests in Africa: I. Simulation of carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics in cassava. Journal of Applied Ecology, 25: 901-920.
  • Herren, HR, P. Neuenschwander, RD Hennessey & WNO Hammond, 1987. Introduction and dispersal of Epidinocarsis lopezi (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), an exotic parasitoid of the cassava mealybug, Phenacoccus manihoti (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae), in Africa. Agricultural Ecosystems and Environment, 19: 131-144.
  • Herren, HR, 1987. Africa-wide biological control project of cassava and cassava green mites: A review of objectives and achievements. Insect Science and Application, 8: 837-840.

Herren was also the coordinating author of the agriculture chapter in the UNEP "Green Economy Report" (2011).

Publications about gentlemen

Web links

Commons : Hans Rudolf Herren  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Herbert Cerutti, How Hans Rudolf Herren saved 20 million people , Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-280-05409-3
  2. ↑ 1995: Herren - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rightlivelihood.org
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.millennium-institute.org
  5. ↑ http://www.weltagrarbericht.de/fileadmin/files/weltagrarbericht/Neuauflage/WegeausderHungerkrise_klein.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.biovision.ch/ueber-uns/wer-wir-sind/
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cgiar.org
  8. ^ National Academy of Sciences . Nasonline.org. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  9. ↑ Meet the Nourishing the Planet Advisory Group: Hans Herren . Nourishing the Planet. April 23, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ Regeneration International
  11. ↑ Monsanto Tribunal
  12. ↑ http://www.globalchange-discussion.org/interview/hans_herren ( Memento from November 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Hans Herren | Genøk - Center for Biosafety ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / conference.genok.com
  14. ↑ http://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/19871999_laureates/1995_herren/
  15. ^ The Kilby International Awards Foundation
  16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usc.edu
  17. ^ One World Award 2010 , biography of the award winner Hans R. Herren. Retrieved September 30, 2013
  18. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rightlivelihood.org
  19. ↑ Manuela Donati, Markus Krucker: “SwissAward”: an overview of the winners. In: SRF 1 from January 12, 2014
  20. ↑ UNEP Green Economy Report - Agriculture Chapter (PDF) United Nations Environment Program. December 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gentlemen, Hans Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entomologist, pioneer in biological pest control
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühleberg , Switzerland