Documents and presentations:

General information:

Detailed program
A special thank you to our sponsors

Politics / Initiatives / Consumers:

Saturday

Swiss democracy in 2 minutes

Information about the different initiatives

The role of media in the food debate

Bernard Lehmann - Society decides the future of agriculture

Beat Röösli - Consumers and Farmers

NR Maya Graf - Fair Food

Franziska Herren - Clean Water

Armin Capaul - Dehorning

Meret Schneider - Stop factory farming

Sunday

Steve Werblow - Effects of consumer pressure on U.S. agriculture

Marjolein van Woerkom - The Dutch way to another business model of producing food

Regina Ammann - Public acceptance of technologies in agriculture - and how to deal with this

Eva Reinhard - Swiss Cheese Research - Traceability of food

Alps and the region:

The Region Entlebuch

Brochure Alpabfahrt (German)

Overview of the visited alps

About cheese:

Factsheet "Cheese and Music" (German)

Beat Wampfler - Music cheese

Winners Swiss Cheese Awards

Cheesemaker Klusen (Website, German)

Photos Kaltbach by Emmi

Agrovision Burgrain:

Factsheet Agrovision Burgrain (German)

Factsheet Farm Burgrain (German)

Factsheet Agrovision RegioFair (German)

Flyer Agrovision Burgrain

M-Industry:

M-Industry sustainability roadmap

M-Industry's sustainability policy

M-Industry sustainability roadmap factsheet

Launch of the sustainable milk production system (German, short version in English)

Articles:

Journalisten diskutieren Schweizer Initiativen-Flut (LID, Switzerland)

Många vill rösta om jordbruket (landlantbruk.se, Sweden)

Would Swiss farmers heed to call to abolish factory farming as being sought for? (gardja.org, Ghana)

Switzerland's swelling food import due to 'lack' of land (gardja.org, Ghana)

Ghana yet to explore the potentials of value-added cattle production (gardja.org, Ghana)

"Eine neue Sicht der Dinge" (Entlebucher Anzeiger, Switzerland)

Guter Sommer (Wochenzeitung für das Emmental und Entlebuch, Switzerland)

188 Millionen für weidende Kühe (Land schafft Leben, Austria)

A weekend trip to Entlebuch: The hidden Swiss Unesco gem (Jayde Archives, Australia/Switzerland)

Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz - weit mehr als Almabtrieb und Alphorn (Agrarjournalist.at, Österreich)

Swiss Press Tour 2018 (Agricultural Ukraine)

Swiss Tour is a big hit with Olivia Cooper (British Guild of Agricultural Journalists)

Milking cows at 4,100ft above sea level: Dairy farming Swiss-style (Farmers Guardian, UK)

Inside the Swiss Cheese Awards (Ontario Dairy Farmer, Canada)