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Biography of Contributors
of Homeopathy and Plant Health/Lages Experimental Station of EPAGRI, Brazil. During the same
period, he took a specialisation on agroecology at the Santa Catarina Federal Institute of Education,
Science and Technology, Lages, Brazil, working with homeopathy in rice crops. Nowadays he is doing
a PhD in Plant Production at the CAV-UDESC and in Interdisciplinary Studies in Agroecology, Water
and Resilience at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience of Coventry University, UK. He is
working with eco-intensifcation of irrigated rice production where he is examining mainly the practices supported by the System of Rice Intensifcation method, innovative technologies such as homeopathy and biodynamics and a knowledge-intensive research methodology, based on a researcher-farmer
participatory approach to improve the state of knowledge on sustainable rice production in Brazil. He
is the Santa Catarina State representative for the Brazilian Association of Homeopathy for Agriculture,
Livestock and Environment, as well as Editor of Brazilian Journal of Agroecology.
Jenifer Wohlers
The research focus of Jenifer Wohlers is on organic and biodynamic farming practice and agricultural scientifc knowledge, commencing when she studied organic agriculture and undertook her
PhD from the University of Kassel-Witzenhausen in Germany. Since 2011, she has been working as
a scientist at the research institute KWALIS in Dipperz, Germany.
An important topic of her research is the evaluation of food quality from analytical as well as
holistic quality aspects, in relation to both farming-relevant factors in organic agriculture and processing-relevant factors in food excellence, with the aim to develop food quality parameters which
complement the established analytical parameters and may point to health and welfare aspects in
food production situations (for both plants and animals), or point to improvements in consumer
well-being (https://www.kwalis.de/).
Biography of Contributors
of Homeopathy and Plant Health/Lages Experimental Station of EPAGRI, Brazil. During the same
period, he took a specialisation on agroecology at the Santa Catarina Federal Institute of Education,
Science and Technology, Lages, Brazil, working with homeopathy in rice crops. Nowadays he is doing
a PhD in Plant Production at the CAV-UDESC and in Interdisciplinary Studies in Agroecology, Water
and Resilience at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience of Coventry University, UK. He is
working with eco-intensifcation of irrigated rice production where he is examining mainly the practices supported by the System of Rice Intensifcation method, innovative technologies such as homeopathy and biodynamics and a knowledge-intensive research methodology, based on a researcher-farmer
participatory approach to improve the state of knowledge on sustainable rice production in Brazil. He
is the Santa Catarina State representative for the Brazilian Association of Homeopathy for Agriculture,
Livestock and Environment, as well as Editor of Brazilian Journal of Agroecology.
Jenifer Wohlers
The research focus of Jenifer Wohlers is on organic and biodynamic farming practice and agricultural scientifc knowledge, commencing when she studied organic agriculture and undertook her
PhD from the University of Kassel-Witzenhausen in Germany. Since 2011, she has been working as
a scientist at the research institute KWALIS in Dipperz, Germany.
An important topic of her research is the evaluation of food quality from analytical as well as
holistic quality aspects, in relation to both farming-relevant factors in organic agriculture and processing-relevant factors in food excellence, with the aim to develop food quality parameters which
complement the established analytical parameters and may point to health and welfare aspects in
food production situations (for both plants and animals), or point to improvements in consumer
well-being (https://www.kwalis.de/).