Congratulations: Lena Kaufmann has been awarded a highly competitive Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her project "Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations". The project will provide in-depth perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of digital agricultural technologies in relation to China and Europe. The project will be based at the University of Fribourg. The collaboration partners include Oxford University, the University of Neuchâtel, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Agroscope, the Sino-German Agricultural Center, and Yunnan Agricultural University. A PhD position will be announced in the coming months.
Interview with Dr. Lena Kaufmann: A socio-technical perspective on farmland and rural-urban migration in contemporary China
In July 2021, Jelena Große-Bley spoke to Lena Kaufmann about her new book, Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China (Amsterdam University Press, 2021, available open access).
