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.
Scientist: Sarah Hackfort
‘The EU needs to be better prepared for new and emerging plant pests’
The consequences of plant pests can be very severe, for example the bacterial pathogen that already killed millions of olive trees in southern Europe. Experts Sarah Hackfort and Chiel Scholten (Technolopis Group, Germany and The Netherlands) wrote a study for the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) on “Threats from ...