Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research
| Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) | |
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 Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | legally independent |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Membership: | Leibniz Association |
| Facility location: | Müncheberg |
| Branch offices: | Dedelow , Paulinenaue |
| Type of research: | Applied basic research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences , social sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Agricultural sciences, climatology, ecology |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (50%), states (50%) |
| Management: |
Frank Ewert (Scientific Director) Cornelia Rosenberg (Admin. Director) |
| Employee: | approx. 330 (2019) |
| Homepage: | http://www.zalf.de |
The Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V. in Müncheberg is a research facility of the Leibniz Association . The work of ZALF serves to explain the causal relationships in agricultural landscapes in order to provide society with the knowledge base for sustainable use.
research
The ZALF's statutory mandate is the scientific research of ecosystems in agricultural landscapes and the development of ecologically and economically viable land use systems. Around 333 employees (as of December 2019) work for the ZALF in three program areas, two research platforms and an experimental infrastructure platform with a total test area of around 150 hectares at the Müncheberg, Dedelow and Paulinenaue locations .
With its interdisciplinary research, according to the statutes, the ZALF serves the common good through a combination of application-oriented basic research and the communication of scientific knowledge to relevant population, specialist and business circles. The research at ZALF aims in particular at
- Climate change
- Food security
- Preservation of biodiversity and
- Scarcity of resources.
The main goal of ZALF is to elucidate natural, engineering and social science interdependencies in agricultural landscapes on different system levels and to develop solutions for sustainable use.
The work of the research center is based on three dimensions:
- Landscape processes: how do agricultural landscapes work?
- Land use and governance: how can we make agricultural landscapes sustainable?
- Synthesis of landscape research: What will the agricultural landscapes of the future look like?
The thematic work in the program areas is supported and linked via the research platforms “Data” and “Models & Simulation”, which combine research and services. The numerous field and landscape-related ZALF research infrastructures are bundled in the “Experimental Infrastructure Platform” (EIP).
ZALF is cooperating with the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), Institute for Infection Medicine ( Riems ) (IMED) on the Mosquito Atlas .
structure
- Program area 1 "Landscape processes"
- Program area 2 "Land Use and Governance"
- Program area 3 "Synthesis of Landscape Research"
- Research platform "data"
- Research platform "Models & Simulation"
- Experimental infrastructure platform
The temporarily affiliated German Entomological Institute has been part of the research network of the Senckenberg Research Institute since 2009 .
history
The stony and sandy soil as well as the low precipitation climatic conditions in eastern Germany led Erwin Baur to found the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg, east of Berlin, in 1928 . The primary goal was the breeding of more resilient and less demanding crops . After the Second World War, the facility was transferred to the Central Research Institute for Arable and Plant Cultivation and from 1970 to the Research Center for Soil Fertility of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR .
After the reunification of Germany, the ZALF was founded in 1992 in the legal form of a non-profit, registered association as the Center for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research. V. On the recommendation of the Science Council, it was included in the Blue List Working Group (AG-BL), from which the Leibniz Association later emerged.
The ZALF is currently managed by its board members Frank A. Ewert (Scientific Director) and Cornelia Rosenberg (Administrative Director). The basic funding is provided equally by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
On the ZALF site in Müncheberg there is also a fruit growing test station under the direction of Hilmar Schwärzel. This is a branch of the State Office for Rural Development, Agriculture and Land Management ( LELF ) with a variety collection of 1,000 varieties distributed over 4,000 individual trees. On May 2, 1992, the ZALF spin-off Umwelt-Geräte-Technik GmbH (UGT), based in Müncheberg, started its activities. The company's founders Manfred Seyfarth and Bernd Fürst and their team worked in the field of scientific device engineering, including a. with the production of PE-HD lysimeter stations, independently.
Web links
- ZALF website
- Portal for freely accessible research primary data of the ZALF: Open Research Data (PDF; 838 kB)
- Statement on the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg / Mark (ZALF). Evaluation report of the Leibniz Association of March 9, 2017
literature
- Annual report 2018 of the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V.
- Annual report 2017 of the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website Mückenatlas.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
- ^ Norm data of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in the German National Library. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
- ↑ LELF fruit growing research station will be presented as part of "90 Years of Research in Müncheberg" on September 25, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.ugt-online.de/home/chronik