Team & Contact

	Program Coordinator Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 0 / 30
Training	Ute Dietrich studied agricultural engineering and resource management at the Universities of Kassel at Witzenhausen and Edinburgh/Scotland. She specialised in organic agriculture and livestock sciences with emphasis on tropical production systems and on the management of human, financial and natural resources. Another focus of her studies was municipal waste management.
Career and working experience	She worked in several projects on organic agriculture in Brazil and Germany (1986-2002) and had numerous short-term assignments in municipal waste management projects. From 1990 to 1993, she was part of the teaching staff at Tutume Senior Secondary School in Botswana. After the birth of her daughter in 1995, she worked as free-lance translator for scientific texts and as coordinator for scientific projects, conferences and events on organic agriculture. Since 2004, she is programme coordinator for DITSL's training programmes. She is also responsible for the management of DITSL's facilities and financial and human resources.
Focus	Her main interest is on teaching and training issues. She is at present participating in a Professional Training in Transactional Analysis (DGTA Certificate). Besides, she is actively involved in the conservation of animal genetic resources in Europe.
Current Projects	WeltGarten Witzenhausen - Global learning and education for sustainable development for pupils and multipliers [» Website] DITSL certificate education courses on Quality Management and Marketing of Organic Products and on Certification and Accreditation Educational activities in the museum "Kaufunger Hof" in Witzenhausen Conservation of animal genetic resources in Europe

	Director Research Apl. Professor for Social Ecology of Tropical and Subtropical Land-use Systems at the University of Hohenheim Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 19 Skype: brigitte.a.kaufmann Publication List AcademiaNet profile
Training	Brigitte Kaufmann studied agricultural sciences at the Universities of Bonn and Hohenheim. She accomplished her doctoral degree in livestock sciences with emphasis on tropical livestock systems in 1998 at the University of Hohenheim. In her post doc research she shifted her research focus to actor oriented approaches and human activity systems and developed a methodology for knowledge analysis based on information theory and second order cybernetics in her habilitation (2007).
Career	Brigitte Kaufmann is Apl. Professor for Social Ecology of Tropical and Subtropical Land Use Systems at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Hohenheim. Since March 2008, she is the scientific director of DITSL. From 1999 to 2008 she was assistant professor at the Institute of Animal Production in the Tropics and Subtropics (480a) at Hohenheim University. During her sabbatical leave from 2003 to 2005 she was visiting scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) for her DFG funded habilitation research.
Experience abroad	Long-term: Kenya (4 years over several stays), Burundi (3 months), France (1 year), Spain (9 months) Short-term: Ethiopia, India, Mali, Mauretania, Mozambique, Niger, Oman, Thailand, Vietnam.
Research	Brigitte Kaufmann has more than 25 years of research experience on tropical agriculture and livestock-based food and farming systems, particularly in highly heterogeneous and variable environments, such as pastoral systems. Since 2005 she focusses on transdisciplinary research in areas of food security, resource management, value chains and food systems and adaptation to climate change. In her research she emphasises methodological advances in the areas of integration of knowledge of scientists and practitioners, collaborative learning and multi-stakeholder processes. In the field of transdisciplinary research, she currently supervises PhD and MSc students working in the area of knowledge analysis, collaborative learning, multi-stakeholder processes and participatory monitoring and evaluation.
Current Research Projects	NaviNut-Enhancing Women´s Agency in Navigating Changing Food Environments to Improve Child Nutrition in African Drylandshttps Projects/navinut (Post-)colonial livestock breeding in Namibia: Historical, socio-ecological and genetic transformations post-colonial-livestock Sagris <<<
Completed Research Projects	AgroFlux: Gesellschaftlich induzierter Paradigmenwechsel für die adaptive Transformation der Deutschen Agrarwirtschaft: Status quo and Needs assessment. Funded by BMBF “Social Sciences: Knowledge, collaborative learning and action” within the GlobE project ReLOAD: Reduction of Post Harvest Losses and Value Addition in East African Food Value Chains - funded by BMBF Gender and socio-cultural differences in participative stakeholder systems and knowledge transfer within the GlobE project Trans-SEC: Innovating Strategies to safeguard Food Security using Technology and Knowledge Transfer: A people-centred Approach - funded by BMBF ICDD "International Centre for Development and Decent Work" (a centre of excellence for development research) GrassNet "Cross-continental network for sustainable adaptation of grassland systems vulnerable to climate change" (Coordinator for DITSL) CarbonQuest: Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro-pastoral systems in Africa ClimaLearn: Mutual learning of livestock keepers and scientists for adaptation to climate change in pastoral areas Supporting the vulnerable: Increasing the adaptive capacity of agro-pastoralists to climatic change in West and Southern Africa using a transdisciplinary research approach (BMZ) [» further information] Improving the Livelihoods of Poor Livestock-keepers in Africa through Community-Based Management of Indigenous Farm Animal Genetic Resources (BMZ) / at the University of Hohenheim Efficiency of smallholder animal husbandry depending on intensity of management and genetic potential of livestock in mountainous regions of northern Vietnam within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 564) "The Uplands Program" founded by the German research council (DFG) / at the University of Hohenheim [» further information]
Teaching	Brigitte Kaufmann currently lectures at the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen in the MSc Programme Sustainable International Agriculture the module A08 “Social-ecology in livestock systems” and in the Studium fundamentale the blocked module “Local knowledge”. She further gives lectures in the Doctoral Program at the University of Hohenheim in the Module 1: Methods of Scientific Working (3000-820) on transdisciplinary research and knowledge integration and co-creation.

	Ethnological Collection Witzenhausen Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 21 Skype: brigitte.a.kaufmann
Current activities	Elaboration and realisation of educational programs for the Ethnological Collection within the frame of "WeltGarten Witzenhausen" (kindergarden, primary school and secondary school) Conception and design of educational elements for the Ethnological Collection Witzenhausen Cooperation in educational programs accompanying exhibitions
Special interests	Working with children, creative work; knowledge on different cultures and people
Experience	Short-term activities: PR-activities in environmental and waste management Long-term activities: Certified fitness instructor for children and young people Direction of the family meeting group of the Catholic Parish Witzenhausen Two children, born in 1992 and 1993

	Project coordinator: WeltGarten Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +49 (0) 5542 607 92
Training	After an apprenticeship in wholesale and foreign trade management Ute Gilles studied Organic Agricultural Science at the University of Kassel in Witzenhausen with focus on agricultural management and consumer research. She holds a Master Degree in Organic Agricultural Science.
Career	Ute Gilles worked as administrator and controller in a social integrational project in Israel (1987-1989) and as assistant at the Faculty of Animal Husbandry at the Lesotho Agricultural College with emphasis on book-keeping and marketing (1997). She did research on land use and land reform in a Social Forestry Project (1998) in Lesotho. From 2001 to 2005 she was co-ordinator for a regional NGO-network in South Africa with emphasis on sustainable land use, land reform and mainstreaming HIV/Aids. She worked as scientific assistant at the Department of Organic Food Quality and Food Culture, with emphasis on organisation analysis (2007) and at the Department of Agricultural and Food Marketing with focus on International Markets and Consumer Research (2008) at the University of Kassel. Since March 2009, she is project coordinator of the educational project WeltGarten Witzenhausen (WeGa) where she fosters networking between involved institutions and other partner organizations, co-ordinates the educational programme with pupils and multipliers, procures funding and conducts PR activities and educational work.
Experience abroad	Israel (3 years), Lesotho (3 years), South Africa (4 years)
Teaching	Ute Gilles has tutored students in book-keeping and marketing at the Faculty of Animal Husbandry at the Lesotho Agricultural College and lectured on International Markets and Consumer Research as scientific assistant at the Department of Agricultural and Food Marketing at the University of Kassel. In 2008 she taught Arts and Crafts in Sek II. at the Freie Waldorfschule Werra Meissner, Eschwege.
Current Projects	www.weltgarten-witzenhausen.de

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(Post)-colonial livestock breeding in Namibia

SAGRIS
2020-2023 Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

2018–2020 BLE / BMEL

RELOAD
2013–2018 BMBF GlobE

Trans-SEC
2013–2018 BMBF GlobE

International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)

2009–2019 BMZ / DAAD

Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism

2011–2015 BMZ / giz-BEAF GrassNet spin-off