Research at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

Scientific and research activities at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences are carried out by the institutes with their more than 50 departments as well as the Agricultural Experimental Station. The interdisciplinary research centres and the immediate vicinity to the state institutes open up excellent opportunities for national and international agricultural research.

The University of Hohenheim occupies top positions in the acquisition of research funds from the German Research Foundation in the field of agricultural sciences as well as in international rankings, for example the "Best Global Universities Ranking".

Key aspects of research

The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences sees the following key aspects of its work in research and teaching:

Digitalisation in Agriculture and Big Data

Global Food Security

Climate Change and Resource Scarcity

Biobased Value Added Networks and Bioenergy

Genome Diversity in Agriculture


An agrivoltaic system combines agricultural and electricity production and can thus mitigate the land-use conflict between food and energy production.

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Modern research is mainly carried out in large, often international and interdisciplinary research consortia.

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The task of the research centres is to network scientists across faculty boundaries to form university-wide research fields and to support them in the acquisition of large collaborative projects.

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