Dr. agr. Johannes Eisenbach

Coordinator at Biocyclic Vegan Network
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Dr. agr. Johannes Eisenbach, born in Germany, is a trained farmer and has lived with his family in Kalamata/Greece since 1995. He has been involved in organic farming since 1982 and, together with organic pioneer Adolf Hoops, worked out the foundation for the Biocyclic Vegan Standard that was admitted to the IFOAM Family of Standards in 2017. After studying agricultural sciences at the Justus-von-Liebig-University in Giessen/Germany, he headed a comparative study between Greece and Turkey at the Institute of World Food Economics. He did his doctorate on the topic of increasing the marketing efficiency of Greece ́s international fruit trade. After five years at the Frankfurt-based Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Department of Economics, Agriculture and Public, he began to set up a network of organic producers in Greece in 1995. He started the first compost plant in Greece, producing high-quality compost and Biocyclic Humus Soil. Since 2010 he has been coordinating the Panhellenic Biocyclic Vegan Network, which brings together growers from Greece and Cyprus that, since 2016, have become certified according to the Biocyclic Vegan Standard. As the initiator and principal author of the Biocyclic Vegan Standard, he is co-founder and partner of the Adolf Hoops Society, the international standard and label organisation for biocyclic vegan agriculture, and chairman of the Biocyclic Vegan Standard Committee. Johannes Eisenbach is also a board member of the German Association Förderkreis Biozyklisch-Veganer Anbau e. V. and a member of the Scientific / Editorial Committee of the Growers’ Forum at IFOAM AgriBioMediterraneo (ABM).
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