At BIOFACH 2025, LAMPERT wrote the beginning of a remarkable climate story.
New requirements quickly lead to an outcry in the agricultural sector, with images of protests and tractor convoys fresh in everyone's memory. All too often, the demands are impractical. Is there another way? The LAMPERT company has been acting as an interface and hub in an innovative climate protection project for five years, because agriculture is suffering more and more from extreme weather events. Driven by the need to adapt farms to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time, 65 vegetable and hay-milk farms are currently taking active measures. LAMPERT connects all stakeholders along the food value chain. Ambitious goals are developed in a participatory manner and tested for practicability instead of a top-down process.
In addition, operational emissions are recorded holistically and the sink performance of soil and forest is modeled. The latter enables forecasts over several decades and thus the selection of the most effective measures. The project is now to be extended to all agricultural sectors and successively to up to 5,000 organic farms.
An inspiring podium
The project was presented to a qualified audience at the world's largest organic trade fair under the title "When farmers write climate history".
Scientific representatives, farmers, processors and retailers sat on the podium on an equal footing. "The key to translating scientific findings into practice is for everyone to help shape the process," organic and sustainability pioneer Werner Lampert, who has been working in the industry for over 50 years, is convinced. Every link in the chain is part of something really big. This certainty and the feeling of togetherness should trigger an unstoppable dynamic that overcomes all barriers. Climate history is being written here.
Also published in:
- Forbes 1-25 "Sustainability"
Author: Dr. Isabell Riedl
Dr. Isabell Riedl has been with LAMPERT since 2012 and is head of the sustainability and communications department. She studied ecology with a focus on nature and landscape conservation and tropical ecology at the University of Vienna. She wrote her dissertation on the importance of tree rows in agricultural areas for forest birds in Costa Rica. Throughout her life, she has been particularly committed to ecological sustainability. She is part of the editorial team of the online magazine "Nachhaltigkeit. Rethink."
