Alexander Müller

Alexander Müller, a graduate sociologist, is the head of a global study of the UN Environment Program on "The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food" and CEO of "TMG - Töpfer, Müller, Gaßner GmbH, ThinkTankforSustainabilty". From 2006 to 2013, he was Deputy Director-General of the Natural Resources and Environment Management Unit of the United Nations World Food Organization (FAO). Previously, he was Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. From 2013 to January 2016 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. Alexander Müller has been a member of the Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung since 2013.

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All contributions by Alexander Müller

How innovations are born

By Klaus Töpfer and Alexander Müller

Production of 95 per cent of all food is based on soil. Yet soils everywhere are under threat. We illustrate the role of development cooperation by considering soil.

"Extreme is the new normal"

By Alexander Müller, and Jes Weigelt

As the climate changes, the population of Africa is growing and fertile land and jobs are becoming scarcer. New ways are currently leading to urbanisation of agriculture and a new mid-sized sector in the countryside

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