• Change is about people

    It is people who are using technologies. Sustainability transitions occur where values of people resonate with technological opportunities.

  • Research

    We create a platform for BOKU scientists and partners all over the world to work jointly on sustainability challenges.

  • Learning

    Together with our students, we work on real world problems to understand system dynamics and identify leverage points for change.

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Sustainability Breakfast with Stefanie Lemke

The Institut für Umwelt, Friede und Entwicklung (IUFE) spoke to Stefanie Lemke in their podcast about the Sustainable Development Goals, development cooperation and climate & environmental protection.
[Translate to English:] (c) Tropentag.de

Save the Date: Tropentag 2023 in Berlin and 2024 in Vienna

Tropentag, the annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development will be taking place in Berlin 2023 and at BOKU in 2024.

From the schnitzel to the bean

PhD Student Laura Hundscheid is featured in the Science and Politics blog of the Karl-Renner-Institut

Who is feeding the world?

Sustainable food systems were a central topic in this years Klimaherbst in Munich. Stefanie Lemke held a key note about gender equity and participation in sustainable food systems.

More than wood!

New policy brief highlights the contribution of forests and trees to food security and nutrition, and calls for policy coherence and integrated landscape approaches

About us

The Institute for Development Research (IDR) was founded in 2020 at the Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems (DNAS). The overarching goal is to mobilize scientific knowledge for sustainable development, in transdisciplinary collaboration with actors from science, politics, civil society and business. Through participatory research approaches, IDR contributes to a sound understanding of the relationships and roles of actors, institutions and change processes within socio-ecological systems. Together with local actors in the Global South, Central and Eastern Europe, we conduct research and facilitate transformation processes towards sustainable Food Systems and governance of natural resources. We apply gender-transformative, intersectional, human rights-based and political-ecological approaches.

IDR focuses on three overarching thematic areas that are closely interlinked.

System analysis and modelling

We analyse and model socio-ecological systems in the Global South to enable change towards sustainability.

Food sovereignty

We investigate transitions in food systems, and develop strategies to increase food and nutrition security.

Transformative learning

We investigate sustainability learning at farm level, in multi-stakeholder settings and higher education.

Management and Administration

Head

Univ.Prof. Dr.
 Stefanie Lemke
Deputy

Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
 Andreas Melcher
Secretary

M.A.
 Anna Rameder

Addresses & Contact

H93400 Institute of Development Research

IDR Institute for Development Research
Peter-Jordan-Straße 76/I
1190 Wien

Contact:
https://boku.ac.at/en/nas/idr
Tel.: +43 1 47654-93400
idr(at)boku.ac.at

Info: IDR Institute for Development Research / Institut für Entwicklungsforschung

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