BLE - Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung - Federal Office for Agriculture and Food
The Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, BLE) is a German institution under public law, directly subordinated to the Federal Government and empowered to conduct business on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
Activities
The BLE fulfils a variety of tasks: Its mandate includes carrying out measures, which strengthen agriculture, food production, fishery and forestry as well as rural areas. BLE is in charge of intervention, subsidies, production standards, such as organic certification and controlling. In addition, the BLE acts as funding manager for Research and Innovation e.g. BLE is research programme manager for BMEL in the field of Food and Nutrition Security. In the project, BLE is involved in WP2 (in particular as leader of Tasks 2.1 ‘Dialogues for Action towards joint R&I agendas in FNSSA”),and to a lower extent in WP 4.
People
- Siegfried Harrer, Head of the Division International Cooperation and Global Food Security. Agricultural Engineer by training. Expertise: funding and research management, international policies, genetic resources, plant breeding.
- Henning Knipschild, funding office in the research-programme Research cooperation for Foodsecurity. Biologist by training. Expertise: funding and research management, international policies, knowledge management, development cooperation.
- Sunilda Terre Fornies, funding office in the research-programme Research cooperation for Foodsecurity. Staff in LEAP-Agri, formerly manager of BMEL’s Bilateral Trust Fund at the FAO. Agricultural Engineer by training. Expertise: funding and research management, international policies, development cooperation.