Christoph Schunko
Assoc. Prof. Priv.Doz.DI Dr.nat.techn. Christoph Schunko
Institute of Organic Farming
Location Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien
Email christoph.schunko@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93348
Career
- 2023 Associate professor (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2023 - 2023 Habilitation (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2021 - 2022 Research stay (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB))
- 2017 - 2023 Tenure track position (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2014 - 2017 University assistant (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2012 - 2016 Dissertation (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2012 - 2015 Project manager and co-leader (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2009 - 2011 Project assistant (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2007 - 2007 Study abroad (Iowa State University of Science and Technology)
- 2006 - 2009 Master Studies in Organic Agriculture (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2005 - 2006 Erasmus stay at the Ecole d’Ingénieurs de Purpan (EIP) (Toulouse INP)
- 2003 - 2006 Bachelor studies in Agricultural Sciences (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
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Presentations
Year: 2025 - Wahrnehmungen österreichischer Bio-Landwirt:innen in Bezug auf Veränderungen lokaler Agrarbiodiversität (Poster)
Autoren: Schricker, V; Faast, A; Gref, D; Moritz, N; Szalay, L; Thaler, A; Schunko, C
Event: Tage der Biodiversität '25
Period: 25.02.2025 - 28.02.2025 | Location: Wien, Wien, Österreich | Location: Wien, Wien, Österreich | Organizer:
Universität für Bodenkultur WienYear: 2025 - Wildsammlung in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft zur Erhaltung und Förderung von Agrarbiodiversität (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: Tage der Biodiversität '25
Period: 25.02.2025 - 28.02.2025 | Location: Wien, Wien, Österreich | Location: Wien, Wien, Österreich | Organizer:
Universität für Bodenkultur WienYear: 2024 - Wildsammlung in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft: Produktion und Wahrnehmung von Konsument*innen (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: BIO AUSTRIA-Bauerntage
Year: 2024 - Biocultural relations, stewardship practices and ecological impacts of wild food foraging in urban areas - a mixed-methods study in Vienna, Austria (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Brandner, A; Wild, AS; Taczanowska, K
Event: Biodiversity and Cultural Landscapes: Scientific, Indigenous and Local Perspectives
Period: 15.05.2024 - 19.05.2024 | Location: Marrakesch, Marokko | Organizer:
International Society for EthnobiologyYear: 2023 - Essbare Stadt: Wildkräuter und -früchte sammeln in Wien (Vortrag)
Autoren: Brandner, A; Schunko, C
Event: Biotope City Vortragsreihe
Period: 23.05.2023 | Location: Wien
Year: 2023 - Lokale Gemeinschaften beobachten vielfältige Veränderungen von Biodiversität (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Cruz-Gispert, A; Álvarez-Fernández, S; García-del-Amo, D; Klappoth, B; Lesi, F; Porcher, V; Porcuna-Ferrer, A; Junqueira, A; Li, X; Reyes-García, V
Event: Tage der Biodiversität 2023
Period: 08.11.2023 - 10.11.2023 | Location: Wien | Location: Vienna, AUSTRIA | Location: Wien | Location: Vienna | Location: Universität für Bodenkultur Wien | Location: BOKU, Wien | Location: Universität für Bodenkultur Wien | Location: Wien, Österreich | Organizer:
BOKU UniversityYear: 2023 - Valuing underutilised crops and wild plants for agroecological transitions. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Bassignana, C; Schunko, C
Event: Workshop organisation and moderation, Agroecology Europe Forum 2023
Period: 16.11.2023 - 18.11.2023 | Location: Gyöngyös, HUNGARY
Year: 2023 - Wildsammlung aus biologischer Landwirtschaft: Status und Innovationspotenzial (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C
Event: Speeding up innovation: Vernetzung von Forschung und Praxis in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft
Period: 05.09.2023 - 26.03.2024 | Location: Wien
Year: 2023 - Material and non-material contributions of rice agroecosystems to indigenous farmers in the Upper Baram, Malaysia (Poster)
Autoren: Hollaus, A; Schunko, C; Weisshaidinger, R; Bala, P; Vogl, CR
Event: Tropentag
Year: 2023 - Lokale Wissenssysteme beherbergen detaillierte Beobachtungen von Veränderungen der Biodiversität (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Cruz-Gispert, A; Álvarez-Fernández, S; García-del-Amo, D; Klappoth, B; Lesi, F; Porcher, V; Porcuna-Ferrer, A; Junqueira, A; Li, X; Reyes-García, V
Event: Tage der Biodiversität 2023
Period: 08.11.2023 - 10.11.2023 | Location: Wien | Location: Vienna, AUSTRIA | Location: Wien | Location: Vienna | Location: Universität für Bodenkultur Wien | Location: BOKU, Wien | Location: Universität für Bodenkultur Wien | Location: Wien, Österreich | Organizer:
BOKU UniversityYear: 2023 - Valuing local agricultural knowledge for the future of agroecology (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C
Event: Agroecology Europe Forum 2023: Converging movements for resilient food systems 2023
Period: 16.11.2023 - 18.11.2023 | Location: Gengeß, Ungarn | Organizer:
Agroecology EuropeYear: 2023 - Valuing wild plants for agroecological transitions. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Bassignana, C; Schunko, C
Event: Workshop presentation, Agroecology Europe Forum 2023
Period: 16.11.2023 - 18.11.2023 | Location: Gyöngyös, HUNGARY
Year: 2022 - Palm fruit’s potential for sustainable commercialisation in Pando, Bolivia (Poster)
Autoren: Arancibia Alfaro, A; Schunko, C; Callo-Concha, D
Event: Tropentag 2022
Period: 14.09.2022 - 16.09.2022 | Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 2022 - Does urban wild food foraging create negative ecological impacts? A mixed-methods study in Vienna, Austria (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Brandner, A
Event: 6th European Congress of Conservation Biology 2022
Period: 22.08.2022 - 26.08.2022 | Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 2022 - Planning and managing public urban green spaces for urban wild food foraging (Vortrag)
Autoren: Brandner, A; Schunko, C
Event: European Forum on Urban Forestry 2022
Period: 17.05.2022 - 21.05.2022 | Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Year: 2022 - Projektergebnisse UrbanWildFoods - Sammeln essbarer Wildpflanzen in Wien (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Brandner, A
Event: 7th WABO Student Conference 2022 - Featuring future in forest and soil sciences
Period: 16.05.2022 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2021 - Enhancing human-nature interactions through wild food foraging on public urban green spaces (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Brandner, A
Event: 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2021 - Cities as social ecological system
Period: 07.07.2021 - 09.07.2021 | Location: Poznan, Poland
Year: 2021 - Organic consumers' attitudes, knowledge and practices with respect to wild plant foods (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: Science Forum at the Organic World Congress 2021
Period: 08.09.2021 - 10.09.2021 | Location: Rennes, France
Year: 2021 - Managing public urban green spaces for increased human-wild plant interaction through urban wild food foraging (Poster)
Autoren: Brandner, A.; Schunko, C.
Event: 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology 2021 - Cities as social ecological system
Period: 07.07.2021 - 09.07.2021 | Location: Poznan, Poland
Year: 2020 - Organic & Wild: a topic under the radar. Why should we care and what are the solutions? (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C
Event: Biofach Kongress 2020
Period: 12.02.2020 - 14.02.2020 | Location: Nürnberg, Germany
Year: 2019 - Ethnobotanical research with countrywide data: understanding the commercial use of wild plant species by organic producers in Austria (Vortrag)
Autoren: Vogl, CR; Schunko, C
Event: 7th International Congress of Ethnobotany - I International Congress of Ethnozoology
Period: 16.10.2019 - 19.10.2019 | Location: Recife, Brazil
Year: 2019 - Die Wildnis im Bio Produkt: Ein Überblick über den Handel mit Wildpflanzenrohstoffen (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C.;
Event: Biofach Kongress 2019
Period: 13.02.2019 - 15.02.2019 | Location: Nürnberg, Germany
Year: 2019 - Local knowledge about the ecological sustainability of wild plant gathering in Lemnos island, Greece (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Papageorgiou, D; Bebeli, P; Panitsa, M
Event: Ecosystem Services Partnership 10th World Conference
Period: 21.10.2019 - 25.10.2019 | Location: Hanover, Germany
Year: 2019 - Wildsammlung in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C.; Vogl, CR
Event: BIO AUSTRIA Bauerntage 2019
Period: 29.01.2019 - 31.01.2019 | Location: Wels, Austria
Year: 2018 - Organic wild plant commercialization as a deepening form of farm diversification in Austria (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: 6th International Conference on Organic Agriculture Sciences ICOAS 2018
Period: 07.11.2018 - 09.11.2018 | Location: Eisenstadt, Austria
Year: 2018 - Organic consumers' knowledge and attitudes towards wild plant foods in Vienna, Austria (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR;
Event: 6th International Conference on Organic Agriculture Sciences ICOAS 2018
Period: 07.11.2018 - 09.11.2018 | Location: Eisenstadt, Austria
Year: 2018 - Wildpflanzen und deren Produkte in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft in Österreich. (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: 14. Bio Austria Bauerntage 2018 - Mut zur Veränderung
Period: 30.01.2018 - 01.02.2018 | Location: Wels, Austria
Year: 2018 - Wildpflanzen und deren Produkte in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft in Österreich. (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: 6th International Conference on Organic Agriculture Sciences ICOAS 2018
Period: 07.11.2018 - 09.11.2018 | Location: Eisenstadt, Austria
Year: 2018 - Geteilte Entscheidungskompetenzen in der Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und Schule: Chancen und Einschränkungen (Vortrag)
Autoren: Vogl, CR; Pirker HA; Grasser, S; Schunko, C
Event: Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2018 – Generation Citizen Science
Period: 01.02.2018 - 03.02.2018 | Location: Salzburg, Austria
Year: 2018 - Local knowledge on uses and the ecological sustainability of wild medicinal plant harvesting: a case study on Lemnos island, Greece (Vortrag)
Autoren: Papageorgiou, D; Schunko, C
Event: 2nd Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week
Period: 12.11.2018 - 16.11.2018 | Location: Valetta, Republic of Malta
Year: 2017 - Guided wild plant tours and their contributions to the cultural transmission of knowledge in the city of Vienna (Austria). (Poster)
Autoren: Grossauer, H; Schunko, C; Vogl, CR;
Event: 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany 2017
Period: 04.06.2017 - 09.06.2017 | Location: Braganca, Portugal,
Year: 2017 - Kinder als EthnobotanikerInnen: Lokale Auswirkungen eines partizipativen Forschungsprojektes mit Kindern zu Wildsammlung im Großen Walsertal, Vorarlberg (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Grasser, S; Vogl, CR
Event: Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2017 - Expanding Horizons
Period: 02.03.2017 - 03.03.2017 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2017 - Assessing the contribution of wild plants to organic food systems in Austria. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR;
Event: 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany 2017
Period: 04.06.2017 - 09.06.2017 | Location: Braganca, Portugal,
Year: 2016 - Redes e iniciativas de la sociedad civil creando alternativas innovadoras en la distribución de alimentos orgánicos en Austria (Vortrag)
Autoren: KUMMER, S; VOGL, C R; SCHUNKO, C
Event: 11th Encuentro Internacional de Agricultura Orgánica y Sostenible
Period: 24.05.2016 - 26.05.2016 | Location: Varadero, Cuba
Year: 2016 - Farmers’ experiments and innovations: A debate on the role of creativity for fostering an innovative environment in farming systems (Vortrag)
Autoren: Vogl, C.R.; Kummer, S.; Schunko, C.
Event: 12th European IFSA Symposium 2016
Period: 12.07.2016 - 15.07.2016 | Location: Shropshire, UK
Year: 2016 - Impacts of Uncontrolled Logging on the Miombo Woodlands of the Niassa Reserve in Mozambique (Poster)
Autoren: Alves, T; Sousa, C; Snook, L; Jamice, R; Ferreira, E; Duguma, L; Chichongue, O; Schunko, C; Gratzer, G; Loo, J;
Event: Tropentag 2016 - Solidarity in a competing world, fair use of resources
Period: 18.09.2016 - 21.09.2016 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer:
ATSAF - Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural ResearchYear: 2016 - Wildsammlung in der Biologischen Landwirtschaft (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: Innovations- und Vernetzungsforum Biolandbau - Innovation, Forschung und Bildung als Schlüssel zum Erfolg
Period: 25.10.2016 | Location: Elixhausen, Austria
Year: 2016 - Challenges and Lessons Learned in Interdisciplinary and Participatory (citizen science) Ethnobotanical Research on Community Conserved Areas in Indigenous Communities in Brazil, Bolivia and Mexico (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: Tropentag 2016 - Solidarity in a competing world, fair use of resources
Period: 18.09.2016 - 21.09.2016 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer:
ATSAF - Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural ResearchYear: 2014 - Challenges and lessons learned in interdisciplinary and participatory ethnobotanical research. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, C;
Event: International Congress on Ethnobotany (ICEB) - Etnobotánica
Period: 17.11.2014 - 21.11.2014 | Location: Cordoba, Spain
Year: 2014 - Policy Processes in COMBIOSERVE (Vortrag)
Autoren: Vogl, C; Schunko, C;
Event: 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership
Period: 08.09.2014 - 12.09.2014 | Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Year: 2014 - Scaling out and sharing of community-owned strategies: experiences within COMBIOSERVE working project (Vortrag)
Autoren: Porter-Bolland, L; Camacho-Benavidez, C; Schunko, C; Vogl, C; Chan Dzul, A; Oliveros López, S;
Event: 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership
Period: 08.09.2014 - 12.09.2014 | Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Year: 2013 - Participatory research and co-inquiry approaches in community-based management of biocultural diversity - examples from COMBIOSERVE (Vortrag)
Autoren: Schunko, C; Vogl, CR; Tumpej, M; Caruso, E; Martin, G; Corbera, E; Ruiz-Mallen, I; Reyes-Garcia, V; Bouma, J; Porter, L; Escobar, F; Bandeira, F; Arrazola, S; Ruiz, O; Chan-Dzul, A; Miranda, S; Huanca, T; Conde, E;
Event: EC Workshop on "Fostering innovative dialogue between researchers and stakeholders to meet future challenges: Land, Soil, Desertification, Urban and Community-Based Environmental Management"
Period: 10.06.2013 - 11.06.2013 | Location: Brussels, Belgium
Year: 2012 - Reichhaltiges Erfahrungswissen über pflanzliche Vielfalt – „BioCultural Diversity“ im Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal (Vorarlberg). (Poster)
Autoren: Grasser, S.; Schunko C.; Vogl C.R.
Event: Tagung Forschung und Lehre zum Ökolandbau an der BOKU 2012
Period: 18.10.2012 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2012 - Biokulturelle Vielfalt - Lokales Erfahrungswissen zu Pflanzen aus Wildsammlung im Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Grasser, S; Schunko, C; Vogl CR
Event: Die Landschaft als Archiv der Zukunft 2012 - (Historische) Kulturlandschaften als eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung
Period: 06.09.2012 - 07.09.2012 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2012 - MIT Kindern forschen – nachhaltig wirken: Partizipative Forschungsmethoden zu lokalem Erfahrungswissen über Natur & Kultur. (Poster)
Autoren: Grasser S.; Schunko C.; Vogl C.R.
Event: 140 Jahre Universität für Bodenkultur Wien 2012 - Quo vadis, Universität(en)?
Period: 02.02.2012 - 03.02.2012 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2012 - School kids as Ethnobotanists - Knowledge transmission through participatory research in the Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal (Austria). (Vortrag)
Autoren: Grasser, S; Schunko, C; Vogl, CR
Event: 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology 2012
Period: 20.05.2012 - 25.05.2012 | Location: Montpellier, France
Year: 2012 - Efectividad de las estrategias de manejo comunitario para la conservación de la diversidad biocultural: Un nuevo proyecto de cooperación científica (COMBIOSERVE) (Poster)
Autoren: ARRÁZOLA, S.; O. RUIZ, X. VELEZ-LIENDO; C.R. VOGL; C. SCHUNKO; G. MARTIN; E. CARUSO; C. DEL CAMPO; C. CAMACHO; R. ROMA; S. CORVERA; I. RUIZ; V. REYES; J. BOUMA; E. ANSINK; L. PORTER; F. ESCOBAR; M. RÖS; E. VILLASEÑOR; F. BANDEIRA; T. MOTA; J. LOBAO; I. MORDECIN; A. CHAN; S. MIRANDA; T. HUANCA & E. CONDE
Event: 2nd Congreso Boliviano de Botánica y el 3rd Congreso Latinoamericano de Etnobiología 2012
Period: 11.10.2012 - 12.10.2012 | Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Year: 2010 - Biokulturelle Vielfalt im Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal – „Wissenschaft geht unters Volk“. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Grasser S., C. Schunko & C. R. Vogl
Event: Biodiversität: Vom Wert der Vielfalt. (Umweltforum Vorarlberg)
Period: 14.10.2010 - 15.10.2010 | Location: Schwarzenberg, Austria
Year: 2010 - Reichhaltiges Erfahrungswissen über pflanzliche Vielfalt – „Biocultural Diversity“ im Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal, Vorarlberg (Poster)
Autoren: Grasser, S.; Schunko, C.; Vogl, C.R.
Event: Forum Natur - Symposium Naturwissenschaften in Vorarlberg
Period: 09.04.2010 | Location: Dornbirn, Austria
Year: 2010 - School kids as Ethnobotanists. Knowledge transmission through participatory research in the Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal, Austria. (Vortrag)
Autoren: Grasser S., C. Schunko & C. R. Vogl
Event: 11th Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology ISE & 1er Encuentro Hispano-Portugués de Etnobiologia EHPE 2010
Period: 20.09.2010 - 25.09.2010 | Location: Albacete, Spain
Year: 2010 - Tracing the transformation of medicinal plant knowledge among Tyrolean (Austrian) Emigrants in Australia, Brazil and Peru (Vortrag)
Autoren: Pirker Heidemarie; Kuhn Elisabeth, Haselmair Ruth, Schunko Christoph, Vogl Christian
Event: 11th Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology ISE & 1er Encuentro Hispano-Portugués de Etnobiologia EHPE 2010
Period: 20.09.2010 - 25.09.2010 | Location: Albacete, Spain
Year: 2009 - Monitoring of Biocultural Diversity. The use and management of biodiversity of wild gathered plant species in the Biosphere Reserve “Großes Walsertal” (Vorarlberg, Austria) (Vortrag)
Autoren: Grasser S., C. Schunko, C. R Vogl & B. Vogl-Lukasser
Event: 4th Symposium of the Hohe Tauern National Park for Research in Protected Areas 2009
Period: 17.09.2009 - 19.09.2009 | Location: Kaprun, Austria
Year: 2009 - Tyrolean Emigrants: Local knowledge of medicinal plants in Austria, Australia, Brazil and Peru (Poster)
Autoren: Pirker H., Kuhn E., Haselmair R., Schunko C., Vogl R.C.
Event: 19th Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration International 2009
Period: 23.08.2009 - 27.08.2009 | Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Year: 2009 - Gathering of wild plants in the hill country east of Graz, Styria - cultural domain analysis and local classification criteria of organic farmers (Poster)
Autoren: Schunko, C. & C. R. Vogl
Event: 1st Meeting of the European Chapter of the Society for Economic Botany 2009 - Ethnobotany networks in Europe
Period: 14.03.2009 - 15.03.2009 | Location: Ghent, Belgium
Year: 2009 - Tyrolean Emigrants Knowledge: Local knowledge of medicinal Plants in Austria, Australia, Brazil and Peru (Poster)
Autoren: Pirker H., Kuhn E., Haselmair R., Schunko C., Vogl R.C.
Event: 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany 2009
Period: 31.05.2009 - 04.06.2009 | Location: Charleston, SC, USA
Year: 2009 - Tyrolean Emigrants Knowledge about plant species used for culinary purposes in Treze Tílias, Brazil (Poster)
Autoren: Kuhn E., Pirker H., Haselmair R., Schunko C., Vogl R. C.
Event: 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany 2009
Period: 31.05.2009 - 04.06.2009 | Location: Charleston, SC, USA