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The Institute for Environment and Natural Resources (IUNR) has developed a tool for the efficiently and strategically planning of production and procurement in the agricultural market. It assesses the suitability of sites worldwide for specific agricultural products on the basis of geographic information on climate ...

The COST Action aims at creating a dynamic network of scientists and other professionals conducting research to improve sweet or sour cherry production in Europe, the main cherry producer. Cherries are highly appreciated fruits for their taste and nutritional properties. Their production is economically ...

Various facilities in the Corvatsch ski area are to be modernised or replaced. Plans are currently underway for two ski lifts. The existing ski lifts are to be replaced by chair lifts.. In addition, a slope is to be artificially snowed, for which a pipe trench must be built along the slope. The previously ...

The main objective of the project was a significant improvement of sales forecasting algorithms with an application focus on food industry and retail, where food waste and stock-out situations are challenging for the planning process. The main product of the project is an intelligent planning software, whose ...

Scenarios of future periurban landscape development were modelled within the WSL research program "Spatial Requirements of Man and Nature" (Price et al., 2015). The spatial representation of the scenarios corresponds to the field-based conceptual data model, storing single values in continuous raster data ...

Development of an encompassing chart of accounts for non-medical support services in hospitals including a corresponding cost center structure and cost unit accounting as a basis for a correct allocation of cost and thus as basis for tools for benchmarking and strategy.

The current food system is not able to produce food to nourish the people in a sustainable way. Less environmental impact, resource use efficiency, maintaining soil fertility, closing of nutrient cycles, stable harvests, improved distribution, avoiding food losses/food waste, fair business models and food ...

This study is based on the observation that discussions about agriculture and the "right" agricultural policy in Switzerland are highly polarised. Different economic and political interests alone are not enough to understand the intensity of an often emotional debate. There are several approaches to explaining why ...

Current life cycle assessments are an essential basis for a scientific and comprehensive comparison of the environmental impact of various power generation technologies. The low environmental impact (e. g. carbon footprint per kWh) is an important argument for the expansion of wind energy in Switzerland.  However, ...

Swiss food industry and agriculture have developed under the conditions of enhanced protection against competition and direct support for agricultural production. Over the past 20 years, agricultural policy instruments have been restructured, but this should not obscure the fact that agriculture is still ...

Since 2009, low interest rates and asset purchases by central banks are severely distorting investment opportunities and trends in financial markets. The performance of active investment strategies decreased substantially since then. This project aims to provide an investment process that finds the ...

The Rhaetian Railway (RhB) has to repair the Foura d'Valorga viaduct near Ardez, which was built in 1911 and put into operation in 1913. The application was made for the use of an environmental construction supervisor. On the one hand, the environmental construction supervision aims to ensure that the legal ...

Research and development of new fibre-based packaging materials with active and intelligent features have shown huge potential to optimise the supply chain, and increase the shelf-life of foodstuff and enhance consumer consciousness of food utilisation. Very few of the potential solutions have, however, been able to ...

The project contributed to the important global question of how to reduce environmental impacts from food production, with a focus on South African food value chains. The Swiss and South African project team joined forces to ensure basic data collection for South African maize, dairy and fruit production, life ...

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) within a society and Business Continuity Management (BCM) within a company are only possible if its known how to act in extraordinary situations. Today where everything is possible, where a lorry can have used as a deadly weapon it is time to understand more about dirty bombs with ...

Natural road runoff treatment facilities work with different substrates. These can be sand or soil filters. This project investigates the flow, filtration and retention behaviour for contaminants of these two substrates.