Stefanie Lemke
Univ.Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lemke
Institute of Development Research
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 76, 1190 Wien
Email stefanie.lemke@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93401, 93416
ORCID: 0000-0001-5604-0253, opens in new window.
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Sustainable agriculture Gender studies Development cooperation Action research Nutritional sciences Human rights
Research Focus
Human right to adequate food and nutrition, food and nutrition security, gender, intersectionality, food sovereignty, sustainable food systems, sustainable livelihood strategies, governance of natural resources
Career
- 2021 Professor, Head of Institute for Development Research (IDR), Dep. Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna
- 2019 - 2021 Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK
- 2015 - 2018 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK
- 2015 - 2021 Adjunct Lecturer, Dep. Societal Transition and Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
- 2013 - 2015 Acting Chair, Dep. Gender and Nutrition, Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
- 2010 - 2012 Habilitation Fellowship, Margarete-von-Wrangell Habilitation programme, Ministry of Science, Research & the Arts, Baden-Württemberg & European Social Fund
- 2010 - 2015 Habilitation in 'Gender and Nutrition', Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
- 2008 - 2010 Senior Research Fellow, Dep. Gender and Nutrition, Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Universität Hohenheim
- 2004 - 2008 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR), North West University, South Africa
- 2003 - 2008 Project Lead (funded by German Research Foundation, DFG), Centre for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen
- 2001 - 2002 Consultant, InWent-Capacity Building International, Feldafing; aid info service e.V. Bonn, AOK Bayern, Bad Tölz
- 2001 - 2002 Consultant, Bavarian Regional Office for Agriculture (Bayr. Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, LfL), ‘Market analysis holiday on farms’, empirical social research, Bavaria & Tyrolia
- 1998 - 2000 Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Nutrition Department, North West University, South Africa
- 1997 - 2001 Doctoral Fellow, Rural Sociology, Technische Universität München-Weihenstephan (TUM)
- 1992 - 1997 Head of Nutrition Counselling, AOK Bayern, districts Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Miesbach-Tegernsee
- 1991 - 1992 Team leader, aid Infoservice e.V. and Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, 'Mobile consulting, nutrition and consumer protection in the new German States’
- 1984 - 1991 MSc, Nutrition Sciences and Home Economics, Technische Universität München-Weihenstephan (TUM)
Awards
- Year: 2002 Awards: OECOTROPHICA Preis für die beste Promotion im Fachgebiet, Berufsverband der Diplom-Oecotrophologen
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Presentations
45 lecures found.
Year: 2023 - Guest Lecture: The human right to food and gender
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Stefanie Lemke
Event: Global Nutrition - Advanced Module, Center for International Health, LMU Munich
Period: 25.04.2023 | Location: Munich
Year: 2023 - Securing women’s right to communal land through dialogue and advocacy: experiences from East and West Africa
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Stefanie Lemke
Event: 19. Entwicklungspolitische Hochschulwochen, Salzburg
Period: 20.11.2023 | Location: Salzburg
Year: 2023 - Umwelt im Gespräch: Landwirtschaft und Planetary Health: Möglichkeiten für eine gesunde und nachhaltige Ernährung
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Stefanie Lemke, Teilnehmerin Podiumsdiskussion
Event: Umwelt im Gespräch
Period: 30.05.2023 | Location: Wien
Year: 2023 - Climate crisis, structural inequality and food/nutrition security: a gender-transformative and rights-based perspective
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Lemke, Stefanie
Event: Caritas Austria, Climate Change in International Development
Period: 05.07.2023 | Location: Caritas Austria
Year: 2023 - The role of women in global crises
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Lemke, Stefanie, Paneldiskussion
Event: The role of women in global crises. Panel Discussion, International Women's Day.
Period: 07.03.2023 | Location: Wien
Year: 2023 - Integrating Gender in Food Systems Research: Concepts, Approaches and Experiences from the Field
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Stefanie Lemke
Event: Guest lecture, Centre for Gender and Science, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Period: 04.10.2023 | Location: Czech Republic (online)
Year: 2023 - Food systems transformation: a systemic perspective on gender-transformative, human rights-based and participatory approaches
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Lemke, Stefanie
Event: ADA-Thematic Tuesday
Period: 13.06.2023 | Location: ADA, Austrian Development Agency, Vienna, Austria
Year: 2022 - Zugang und Teilhabe: Voraussetzung für Ernährungssicherheit
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, Stefanie
Event: CAS Herbsttagung 2022 - Ernährungssicherheit in einer unsicheren Zeit - Globale Perspektiven und Spotlights aus der Züchtung
Period: 18.11.2022 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2021 - Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Teilhabe für nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: Münchner Klimaherbst
Period: 29.10.2021 | Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2021 - Ernährungssicherheit und Transformation der globalen Nahrungsmittelproduktion
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: SDG Dialogforum Österreich - Innovationspool "Österreich im globalen Kontext"
Period: 28.09.2021 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2021 - Wie lässt sich eine ausreichende Nahrungsmittelversorgung sicherstellen und die Nahrungsmittelproduktion nachhaltig gestalten?
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: Museum der Moderne Salzburg - Podiumsdiskussion zum Welternährungstag
Period: 16.10.2021 | Location: Salzburg, Austria
Year: 2021 - Ernährungssouveränität – für eine nachhaltige und gesunde Zukunft
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: Laudation zum Nachwuchspreis des Österreichischen Preises für Entwicklungsforschung 2021
Period: 14.10.2021 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2017 - The prospect of smallholder renewable energy production: insights from case studies in rural South Africa, India and Brazil
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Winkler, B; Lemke, S; Lewandowski, I
Event: 2nd International Bioeconomy Congress 2017
Period: 12.09.2017 - 13.09.2017 | Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Year: 2016 - Governance of agricultural programmes in South Africa - potentials and constraints for local food systems adopting a right to food lens
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Pott, T; Claasen, N; Lemke, S
Event: International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Symposium 2016
Period: 12.07.2016 - 15.07.2016 | Location: Edgmond, UK
Year: 2015 - Teaching Interdisciplinary Ethics as Interactive Process: Advancing the Hohenheim-Tübingen Model
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Nuñez, MDBdL; Lemke, S; Potthast, T
Event: EurSAFE 2015
Period: 28.05.2015 - 30.05.2015 | Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Year: 2015 - Local Governance of Agriculture and Nutrition Programmes for Achieving Sustainable Diets in Vaalsharts, South Africa
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Zalwert, R; Claasen, N; Lemke, S
Event: Tropentag 2015 - Management of land use systems for enhanced food security - conflicts, controversies and resolutions
Period: 16.09.2015 - 18.09.2015 | Location: Berlin, Germany | Location: Prague, Czech Republic | Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 2014 - Food access, diversity and nutritional status of rural resource-poor households – The troubling coexistence of food insecurity and obesity
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Claasen, N; Covic, N; Lemke, S
Event: Nutrition Congress: Optimal Nutrition for All
Period: 16.09.2014 - 19.09.2014 | Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Year: 2014 - Local food systems, consumption patterns and nutritional outcomes - Implications for sustainable diets in rural South Africa
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Claasen, N; Idsardi, E; Lemke, S; Covic, N; Bobbey, S; Kullen, F; Araujo, A
Event: WPHNA Conference: Building healthy global food systems: A new imperative for Public Health
Period: 08.09.2014 - 09.09.2014 | Location: Oxford, UK
Year: 2012 - Women agricultural cooperatives in the Western Cape, South Africa: a strategy to achieve food security and promote women’s empowerment
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Eisermann, AC; Lemke, S; Bellows, AC
Event: 4th Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) Scientific Student Conference, "Future Cities - Future Life Sciences"
Period: 09.11.2012 - 10.11.2012 | Location: Alnarp, Sweden
Year: 2012 - Local food systems and sustainable tourism - a strategy to strengthen rural livelihoods? A case study from South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Laeis, G; Lemke, S
Event: 4th Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) Scientific Student Conference, "Future Cities - Future Life Sciences"
Period: 09.11.2012 - 10.11.2012 | Location: Alnarp, Sweden
Year: 2011 - The impact of an organic food production and life skills training program on food security and sustainable livelihoods of unemployed women in South Africa – a case study
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Yousefi, F; Bellows, AC; Lemke, S
Event: 3rd Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) Scientific Student Conference, “Can Agriculture Feed the World”?
Period: 21.10.2011 - 22.10.2011 | Location: Wageningen, Netherlands
Year: 2010 - Multi-method research designs in studies of nutrition security and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Bellows, AC
Event: International Perspectives in Qualitative Research Methods
Period: 04.05.2010 - 06.05.2010 | Location: London, UK
Year: 2009 - Land Reform in South Africa: Moving towards the right to adequate food for all?
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS; Heumann, N
Event: 19th International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), “Nutrition Security for All”
Period: 04.10.2009 - 09.10.2009 | Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Year: 2008 - We spend the farm wage immediately when we get it – gender specific livelihoods in the context of nutrition security among farm workers, North West Province, South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Heumann, N; Sithole, S; Matenge, S
Event: Nutrition Congress
Period: 28.09.2008 - 02.10.2008 | Location: Pretoria, South Africa | Location: Port Elizabeth, South Africa | Location: Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Year: 2008 - Qualitative research exploring the influence of household composition and intra-household dynamics on nutrition security among farm workers, North West Province, South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Heumann, N; Lemke, S; Leonhäuser, I-U; Kruger, A
Event: Nutrition Congress
Period: 28.09.2008 - 02.10.2008 | Location: Pretoria, South Africa | Location: Port Elizabeth, South Africa | Location: Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Year: 2007 - To redistribute land, but not to empower the workers - case study of a South African farm in the North West Province
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS
Event: Anthropology Southern Africa ASnA Congress 2007 - How does research inform current public debate?
Period: 26.09.2007 - 28.09.2007 | Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Year: 2006 - Processes of Transformation and Redistribution: Case Study of a South African Farm, North West Province
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS
Event: IUAES/PAAA/ASnA Intercongress, Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: Towards Alternative Modernities
Period: 03.12.2006 - 07.12.2006 | Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2006 - Everyday Life Experiences of Farm Worker Households in the Context of Nutrition Security – Case Study of a South African Farm, North West Province
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Heumann, N; Lemke, S; Leonhäuser, I-U; Kruger, A
Event: IUAES/PAAA/ASnA Intercongress, Transcending Postcolonial Conditions: Towards Alternative Modernities
Period: 03.12.2006 - 07.12.2006 | Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2005 - Underlying Causes of Nutrition Insecurity among Farm Worker Households, North West Province, South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Leonhaeuser, I-U; Heumann, N; Kruger, A
Event: 18th International Congress of Nutrition
Period: 19.09.2005 - 23.09.2005 | Location: Durban, South Africa
Year: 2005 - Frontiersmen: White South African Farmers in the North West Province, South Africa. A Case study
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, F
Event: Conference Anthropology Southern Africa, Continuity, change and transformation: Anthropology in the 21st Century
Period: 22.09.2005 - 24.09.2005 | Location: Durban, South Africa
Year: 2005 - Nutrition Insecurity among Farmworker Households in the North West Province, South Africa – a Microsocial Perspective
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Heumann, N; Lemke, S; Leonhäuser, I-U; Kruger, A
Event: Conference North West Department of Health, Improving health service delivery through research in the North West Province
Period: 26.05.2005 - 27.05.2005 | Location: Rustenburg, South Africa
Year: 2005 - “I won’t go hungry as long as my friends are here” - Social networks as response to nutrition insecurity among farm dwellers in the North West Province, South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Heumann, N; Lemke, S; Leonhäuser, I-U; Kruger, A
Event: Conference Anthropology Southern Africa, Continuity, change and transformation: Anthropology in the 21st Century
Period: 22.09.2005 - 24.09.2005 | Location: Durban, South Africa
Year: 2004 - Household Composition and Gender Relations Among Black South Africans – Implications for Nutrition Security and Development
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: XXth World Congress of the International Federation of Home Economics, Cooperation and Interdependence – Fostering Leadership in Home Economics for Healthy Communities
Period: 01.08.2004 - 07.08.2004 | Location: Kyoto, Japan
Year: 2004 - Nutrition Security, Livelihoods, Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Implications for Research among Black South African Farm Worker Households
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: Nutrition Congress, Diversity in Nutrition
Period: 23.08.2004 - 27.08.2004 | Location: Worcester, South Africa
Year: 2003 - Poor but successful: Women and food security in South Africa
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen von Rensburg, NS; Vorster, HH; Ziche, J; Leonhäuser, I-U
Event: International Conference Poverty, Food and Health in Welfare
Period: 01.07.2003 - 04.07.2003 | Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Year: 2003 - Major determinants in the aetiology of Kwashiorkor, a severe form of protein-energy malnutrition
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Dreschl-Bogale, S; Lemke, S
Event: International Conference Poverty, Food and Health in Welfare
Period: 01.07.2003 - 04.07.2003 | Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Year: 2003 - Black farm households in the North West Province, South Africa – evidence on household organisation, nutrition security and social relations and implications for further research
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS
Event: Anthropology Southern Africa 2003
Period: 24.08.2003 - 27.08.2003 | Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2002 - Empowered Women, the Need to Empower Men and the Meaning of Social Resources – Investigations on Food Security in Black South African Households
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS
Event: Annual Conference of the Association Anthropology Southern Africa
Period: 09.09.2002 - 11.09.2002 | Location: Grahamstown, South Africa
Year: 2002 - Empowered Women, Social Resources and the Contribution of Qualitative Research – Broadening our Understanding of Underlying Factors for Food and Nutrition Insecurity
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: Nutrition Congress, Empowering Nutrition – Broadening our Horizons
Period: 05.11.2002 - 09.11.2002 | Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa
Year: 2001 - Black South African Families, Intra-Household Relations and Food and Nutrition Security – Creativity for Survival
Art: Poster - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS; Vorster, HH; Ziche, J
Event: 17. International Congress of Nutrition, Modern Aspects of Nutrition – Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives
Period: 27.08.2001 - 31.08.2001 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2000 - Food Security, Social and Gender Relations in Black South African Households: Ways of Coping and Survival
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS; Vorster, HH; Ziche, J
Event: Conference of the Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa, The Challenge for Anthropology in the African Renaissance
Period: 08.05.2000 - 10.05.2000 | Location: Windhoek, Namibia
Year: 2000 - Black South African Households, gender relations and food and nutrition security
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS; Vorster, HH; Ziche, J
Event: 18th Biennial Congress - Nutrition Society of South Africa: From Lab To Land (6th Biennial Congress - Association of Dietetics in South Africa)
Period: 15.08.2000 - 18.08.2000 | Location: Durban, South Africa
Year: 2000 - Black African Households, Food Security and Social Relations in the North West Province, South Africa: The Basis of Investigation for Sustainable Social Development
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS; Vorster, HH; Ziche, J
Event: Symposium Sustainable Social Development - Critical Challenges
Period: 10.02.2000 - 11.02.2000 | Location: Potchefstroom, South Africa
Year: 1999 - Food Security in Black African Households: An Interdisciplinary Approach of Social Factors and Gender Relations
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S; Jansen van Rensburg, NS; Vorster, HH; Ziche, J
Event: Conference of the Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa, Poverty and livelihood – urban and rural
Period: 20.01.1999 - 23.01.1999 | Location: Harare, Zimbawe
Year: 1999 - Food Security in African Households – An Interdisciplinary Study of Social Factors and Gender Relations
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Lemke, S
Event: Pretoria-Wageningen Symposium Nutrition and Health
Period: 20.08.1999 - 21.08.1999 | Location: Pretoria, South Africa
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