Portrait of Professor Christian Vogl

Professor Christian Vogl

Visiting Fellow, Ethnobotanist in Residence

About

Professor Christian Vogl, from the Division of Organic Farming at BOKU, Vienna, is an annual Visiting Fellow to the CBCD in our Ethnobotanist in Residence programme.

He presents a series of seminars on the dynamics of biocultural diversity in agroecosystems in Austria and Latin America, where he and his students have been conducting research for the past 25 years. He also advises students on Kent’s Ethnobotany MSc programme in research design.

Prof. Vogl heads the Working Group Knowledge Systems and Innovation at BOKU, where he and his staff and students pursue research on farmers’ experiments, agricultural knowledge and innovation systems, local knowledge, organic farming, urban organic agriculture, and the ethnosciences, in Austria, central Europe, Mexico, Cuba, Brasil and Peru. He is also an EU auditor for quality management systems for organic certification in Latin America.

His current research at BOKU includes:

Monitoring of crop diversity and the related local knowledge in the valley “Pustertal” (district of Lienz, Tyrol, Austria) (PuKuVi/Ö)

“Homegrown – There’s nothing like a homegarden!” Agrobiodiversity in farmers’ homegardens in Eastern Tyrol (Austria)

Lessons Learned for the Management Policy of the Biosphere Reserve “Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha” (Peru) based upon the inhabitants’ local knowledge and available global scientific knowledge.

Action Research on reestablishing crop diversity in Alpine environments: The case of the village of Assling.

 

Some of his recent publications include:

Cifuentes, ML; Vogl, CR; Padilla, MC Participatory Guarantee Systems in Spain: Motivations, Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement Based on Three Case Studies. SUSTAINABILITY-BASEL. 2018; 10(11)

Kaufmann, S; Vogl, CR Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in Mexico: a theoretic ideal or everyday practice?AGR HUM VALUES. 2018; 35(2): 457-472.

Kuhn, E; Haselmair, R; Pirker, H; Vogl, CR The role of ethnic tourism in the food knowledge tradition of Tyrolean migrants in Treze Tilias, SC, Brazil. J ETHNOBIOL ETHNOMED. 2018; 14

Schunko, C; Vogl, CR Is the Commercialization of Wild Plants by Organic Producers in Austria Neglected or Irrelevant? SUSTAINABILITY-BASEL. 2018; 10(11)

Vogl-Lukasser, B; Vogl, CR The changing face of farmers’ home gardens: a diachronic analysis from Sillian (Eastern Tyrol, Austria). J ETHNOBIOL ETHNOMED. 2018; 14

More information: Prof Christian Vogl: christian.vogl(at)boku.ac.at

Dr Rajindra Puri: rkp(at)kent.ac.uk

Last updated 23rd January 2023