Supporting and Scaling Up Organic Farming – The Story of Christian Hiss Christian Hiss, CEO Regionalwert AGImagine growing up on an organic farm, and seeing with your own eyes not just the great benefits of organic farming to the preservation and sustainability of our planet’s ecosystems, but also the challenges to organic farming growth, scaling up and profitability. This is exactly what Christian Hiss did. And he chose to address these challenges by creating – in 2006 – his own company, RegionalWert AG. Continue reading →
Organic Farming in Action – What They Did at Biohof Schüpfenried We started Day 1 of our workshop on how social entrepreneurship can contribute to market systems development in agriculture by having a tour of the Biohof Schüpenried – a ”cluster” of organic farming businesses close to Bern in Switzerland.Roland Münger and Markus Wüthrich – two local entrepreneurs working on the Biohof Schüpenried – showed us around the farm various facilities. Continue reading →
