Am 4.3.2025 fand in der Niederösterreichischen Landesbibliothek in St. Pölten ein vom IGLR - Institut für Geschichte des ländlichen Raums (Brigitte Semanek & Jessica Richter) und der BAB (Georg Wiesinger) gemeinsam organisierter internationaler Workshop zu „Farmers‘ Knowledge and Farming Practices" statt, bei dem mehr als 20 Experten und Expertinnen über die ökonomische, ökologische und soziokulturelle Bedeutung traditionellen bäuerlichen Wissens diskutierten.
Programme
13:00-13:20
Brigitte Semanek (Institute of Rural History – IGLR), Jessica Richter (IGLR) & Georg Wiesinger (Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna)
Welcome Address
13:20-13:55
Přemysl Mácha (Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences) & Jessica Richter (IGLR)
Farmers Knowledge, Memory and Common Sense
13:55-14:30
Christian R. Vogl & Christoph Schunko (Institute of Organic Farming, BOKU University)
Examples for Research on Local Knowledge at the Institute of Organic Farming at the BOKU University
Chair: Oliver Kühschelm (IGLR)
14:30-14:50 Coffee break
14:50-15:25
Peter Moser (Archives of Rural History, Bern)
Knowledge and Skills in the Agrarian-Industrial Knowledge Society: Power Relations, Actors and Institutions (ca. 1870-1950)
15:25-16:00
Ika Darnhofer (Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics, BOKU University)
How do We Conceptualize Family Farmers: As Rational Producer-Entrepreneurs or as Embodied Peasants?
16:00-16:35
Thassilo Hazod (Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna)
Peasant Knowledge and the Economic Practice of Direct Marketing
Chair: Teresa Petrik (IGLR)
16:35-16:55 Coffee break
16:55-17:30
Andreas Koch (Department of Sociology and Social Geography & Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
Local Rural Empowerment Strategies
Chair: Jessica Richter (IGLR)
17:30-18:00 Conclusion and Future Perspectives
