Sarah Hackfort
Sarah Hackfort is a political science researcher and principal consultant at the Technopolis Group in Germany, where she specialises in policy and trend analysis of bioeconomy, green economy and agri-food systems. Her work focuses on the implications of social and technological innovations and related public policies.-
'The EU needs to be better prepared for new and emerging plant pests'
Plant pests can have severe consequences for the economy, environment and food security, as was seen with a bacterial pathogen that has already killed millions of olive tress across Southern Europe. Experts Sarah Hackfort and Chiel Scholten (Technolopis Group, Germany and The Netherlands) wrote a study...