Monika Schneider
Scientist
Department of International Cooperation
Forschungsinstitut fur biologischen Landbau
Switzerland
Biography
Monika Schneider had done her postgraduate studies in international development cooperation (NADEL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich. She was staff member of NGO Servicios Multiples de Technologias Apropiadas (SEMTA) in La Paz, Bolivia. Main subjects: Training and advisory work for horticulture, potatoes (seed funds), fodder corps in the Andes (Altiplano).She was Program officer in the NGO Swiss Labour Assistance (Schweizerisches Arbeiterhilfswerk, now Solidar Switzerland), responsible for the development cooperation program in Central America (Nicaragua and El Salvador). Main subjects: Business and service development of agricultural cooperatives, land rights, sustainable resource management, organic coffee production and commercialisation, credit systems, gender work and empowerment of women, fight for violence free life for women and children, support of training programs of unions in human -, civil and workers rights. Humanitarian aid and reconstruction after Hurricane Mitch.Since 2003 she is at FiBL as project manager
Research Interest
Low input agriculture, Plant production, Project management
Publications
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Andres, C.; Comoé, H.; Beerli, A.; Schneider, M.; Rist, S. and Jacobi, J. (2016) Cocoa in monoculture and dynamic agroforestry. In: Lichtfouse, E. (Ed.) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, chapter 3, pp. 121-153.
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Niether, Wiebke; Schneidewind, Ulf; Armengot, Laura; Adamtey, Noah; Schneider, Monika and Gerold, Gerhard (2017) Spatial-temporal soil moisture dynamics under different cocoa production systems. CATENA, 158, pp. 340-349.
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Jacobi, Johanna; Bottazzi, Patrick; Pillco, Maria Isabel; Schneider, Monika and Rist, Stephan (2017) Building Farm Resilience in a Changing Climate: Challenges, Potentials, and Ways Forward for Smallholder Cocoa Production in Bolivia. In: Sudmeier-Rieux, Karen; Fernández, Manuela; Penna, Ivanna M.; Jaboyedoff, Michel and Gaillard, J.G. (Eds.) Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, chapter 14, pp. 231-247.
