Science is not just about theories, but also about practical solutions to the most pressing issues of our time. Two recent podcast episodes show how our scientists are working to make agriculture more sustainable and fit for the future. Listen in and join our two experts in two exciting conversations.
querFELDein: How research reaches the field
How can we bring research from the laboratory directly to the fields and barns? That is the central question in the latest episode of the podcast querFELDein, entitled ‘Research Infrastructures in Agriculture’.
ATB guest in the 41st episode is Dr Anja Hansen, research infrastructure consultant at ATB and coordinator of the Leibniz Innovation Farm for Sustainable Bioeconomy (InnoHof), who talks to Elisa Erpel, managing director of Öhnaland Agrar GmbH. Anja Hansen contributes the research perspective and introduces InnoHof. The InnoHof aims to bring together agriculture, science and practice to jointly develop and test sustainable solutions. Elisa Erpel shares her practical experience in agriculture and exciting research collaborations. In the podcast, the two discuss why cooperation and courage are crucial to making agriculture sustainable.
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Mikroben im Visier: Antibiotic resistance from animal husbandry
Dr Tina Kabelitz, scientist at ATB and head of the working group ‘Infections and AMR in farm animals’, is a guest on the fifth episode of the podcast ‘Mikroben im Visier’ (Microbes in Focus). In episode 5, ‘Antibiotic resistance from animal husbandry’, she talks about how resistant bacteria from animal stables enter the environment and reach humans.
Among other things, Tina Kabelitz explains how the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry contributes to the development of resistance and how resistant bacteria are spread via manure or dust in the air. She shares insights from her research and reveals how this spread can be prevented. She also highlights the role that animal welfare and alternative farming systems play in reducing antibiotic resistance.
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