Prof. Dr. Matthias Meier

Lecturer in sustainable food systems, bachelor and master level

Research in the field of sustainability analysis and assessment

Sustainable food systems

Environmental assessments of food value chains

Sustainablity assessments of food systems

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

BSc in Food Science

BSc in Agronomy

MSc in Life Sciences

Sustainable food consumption

Sustainable product development

Sustainable sourcing

Consumer attitudes towards sustainability

Food Loss & Food Waste

Climate change - Emission reduction in in food industry and consumption

Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Sustainable sourcing, processing and tracing of food - Agriculture; methods of cultivation - organic versus conventional

Sustainable food industry

Sustainable food systems

Sustainability analyses and assessments of food systems

Sustainability assessments of food value chains

Life cycle assessment (LCA) of foods

Material and substance flow analysis in food industry

Check list«Sustainability in cheese dairies in Switzerland» -commissioned by Fromarte, Switzerland.

Proposal for the development of a guideline on "Sustainability in commercial cheese dairies in Switzerland" - commissioned by Fromarte, Switzerland

Assessment of the sustainability of food labels - commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland

Value chain analyis of cotton in Cameroon, VCA4D - commissioned by Agrinatura, funded by the Euroean Commission / DEVCO

Increasing the productive life of Swiss dairy cows: influencing factors, future scenarios and strategy development - commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture (FOAG), ASR, Bio Suisse, IP Suisse, Migros, SMP and Profi-Lait

ProOrg - Code of practice for organic food processing; 2018-2021; funded by the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), Switzerland and the European Commission; ERA-Net: CORE Organic Cofund Call 2016/17

Gabel, V., Home, R., Stöckli, S., Meier, M., Stolze, M., Köpke, U. (2018): Evaluating on-farm biodiversity: A comparison of assessment methods. Sustainability 10, 4812.

Rudolph, G., Hörtenhuber, S., Bochicchio, D., Butler, G., Brandhofer, R., Dippel, S., Dourmad, J., Edwards, S., Früh, B., Meier, M., Prunier, A., Winckler, C., Zollitsch, W., Leeb, C. (2018): Effect of three husbandry systems on environmental impact of organic pigs. Sustainability 10, 3796.

Schütz, L., Gattinger, A., Meier, M., Muller, A., Boller, T., Mäder, P., Mathimaran, N. (2018): Reliability of microbial inoculants for improving crop yield. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 8.

Gabel, V.M., Meier, M.S., Köpke, U., Stolze, M. (2016): The challenges of including impacts on biodiversity in agricultural life cycle assessments. Journal of Environmental Management 181, 249-260.

Meier, M.S., Stoessel, F., Jungbluth, N., Juraske, R., Schader, C., Stolze, M. (2015): Environmental impacts of organic and conventional agricultural products - Are the differences captured by life cycle assessment? Journal of Environmental Management 149, 193-208.

Gusberti, M., Klemm, U., Meier, M., Maurhofer, M., Hunger-Glaser, I. (2015): Fire blight control: The struggle goes on. A comparison of different fire blight control methods in Switzerland with respect to biosafety, efficacy and durability. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 12, 11422.

Schader, C., Grenz, J., Meier, M.S., Stolze, M. (2014): Scope and precision of sustainability assess-ment approaches to food systems. Ecology and Society 19, 1-15.

Schader, C., Jud, K., Meier, M.S., Kuhn, T., Oehen, B., Gattinger, A. (2014): Quantification of the effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation measures in Swiss organic milk production using a life cycle assessment approach. Journal of Cleaner Production 73, 227-235.

Meier, M.S., Trtikova, M., Suter, M., Edwards, P.J., Hilbeck, A. (2013): Simulating evolutionary re-sponses of an introgressed insect resistance trait for ecological effect assessment of transgene flow: A model for supporting informed decision making in environmental risk assessment. Ecol-ogy and Evolution 3, 416-423.

Hilbeck, A., McMillan, J.M, Meier, M., Humbel, A., Schläpfer-Miller, J. & Trtikova, M. (2012): A contro-versy re-visited: Is the coccinellid Adalia bipunctata adversely affected by Bt toxins? Environmental Sciences Europe 24.

Hilbeck, A., Meier, M. & Trtikova, M. (2012): Underlying reasons of the controversy over adverse effects of Bt toxins on lady beetle and lacewing larvae. Environmental Sciences Europe 24.

Szekacs, A., Weiss, G., Quist, D., Takacs, E., Darvas, B., Meier, M., Swain, T. & Hilbeck, A. (2012): Interlaboratory comparison of Cry1Ab toxin quantification in MON 810 maize by enzyme-immunoassay. Food and Agricultural Immunology 23(2):99-121.

Drapela, T., Markut, T., Meier, M.S., Pfiffner, L., Schader, C. (2018): Biodiversity performance of organic farms in Austria – results from eight years of biodiversity assessment. ICOAS '18. 6th International Conference on Organic Agriculture Sciences. 7 - 9 Nov., Eisenstadt, Austria, p. 18.

Oehen, B.& Meier, M.S. (2017): Standortgerechte Rindfleischproduktion im Schweizer Biolandbau. In: Wolfrum, S., Heuwinkel, H., Reents, H.J., Wiesinger, K., Hülsbergen, K.-J. (Eds.), 14. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau. Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin, Freising-Weihenstephan, pp. 488-491.

Meier, M.S., Jungbluth, N., Stoessel, F., Schader, C., Stolze, M. (2014): Higher accuracy in N modeling makes a difference. In: Schenck, R., Huizenga, D. (Eds.) (2014): Proceedings of the 9th In-ternational Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector (LCA Food 2014), 8-10 October 2014, San Francisco, USA. ACLCA, Vashon, WA, USA, pp. 797-806.

Meier, M.S., Schader, Ch. & Gattinger, A. (2012): Modelling N2O emissions from organic fertilisers for LCA inventories. In: Corson, M.S., van der Werf, H.M.G. (Eds.), 8th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector (LCA Food 2012), 1-4 October 2012. INRA, Rennes, France, Sain-Malo, France, pp. 177-182.

Schader, Ch., Jud, K., Meier, M.S., Kuhn, T., Oehen, B. & Gattinger, A. (2012): Quantification of the reduction potential of GHG mitigation measures in Swiss organic milk production using a life cy-cle assessment approach. In: Corson, M.S., van der Werf, H.M.G. (Eds.), 8th International Con-ference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector (LCA Food 2012), 1-4 October 2012. INRA, Rennes, France, Sain-Malo, France, pp. 333-337.

Meier, M. (2020): Ist regional gleichzeitig immer nachhaltig? Standortangepasste Landwirtschaft und Umweltauswirkungen der Nahrungsmittelkonsums. In: Schanz, H.; Pregernig, M.; Baldy, J.; Sipple, D.; Kruse, S. (Hrsg.) (2020): Kommunen gestalten Ernährung – Neue Handlungsfelder nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung. DStGB Dokumentation, 2020, Nr. 153. Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund, Berlin, p. 12.

Biedermann, R., Bartel, A., Schwank, O., Frick, R., Meier, M., Ramsak-Noemi, K., Zethner, G., Weisshaidinger, R. (2019): Die Folgen der aktuellen landwirtschaftlichen Praxis auf die Umwelt: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. In: Stolze, M., Weisshaidinger, R., Bartel, A., Schwank, O., Müller, A., Biedermann, R. (Eds.), Chancen der Landwirtschaft in den Alpenländern. Haupt, Bern, pp. 35-71.

Bautze, L., Nicolay, G.L., Meier, M., Gattinger, A., Muller, A. (2018): Climate Change Adaptation Through Science-Farmer-Policy Dialogue in Mali. In: Leal, F.W. (Ed.), Handbook of Climate Change Resilience. Springer, Cham.

Fok, M., Nicolay, G., Meier, M., Balarabe, O., Calaque, R. (2019). Value chain analysis of cotton in Cameroon. Report to the European Union, DG-DEVCO. Value Chain Analysis for Development Project (VCA4D CTR 2016/375-804), 159 p + annexes.

Meier, M., Hörtenhuber, S., Schader, C., Stolze, M. (2017): Organic Framing and Sustainability: Life cycle assessment of organic foods. FiBL Facts Sheet. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Vienna. https://shop.fibl.org/chde/1020-life-cycle-assessments.html

Müller, A., Bautze, L., Meier, M., Gattinger, A., Gall, E., Chatzinikolaou, E., Meredith, S., Ukas, T., Ullmann, L. (2016): Organic farming, climate change mitigation and beyond. Reducing the environmental impacts of EU agriculture. IFOAM EU and FiBL, Brussels, Belgium, p. 72. http://www.ifoam-eu.org/sites/default/files/ifoameu_advocacy_climate_change_report_2016.pdf