Institutions within the BMEL's portfolio
The institutions within the BMEL's portfolio include higher federal authorities, legally independent institutions, the federal research centres, institutions belonging to the Leibniz Association and recipients of institutional grants; these institutions are listed in detail on this page.
On the basis of an administrative agreement, the federal states and the BMEL supports six research institutes that are part of the Forschungsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz e.V. research association on the basis of an administrative agreement.
Higher federal authorities
Federal Research Centres
- Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI)
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (TI)
- Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)
- Max Rubner Institute (MRI)
Legally independent institutions
- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
- Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
- German Wine Fund (DWF)
Institutions in the Leibniz Association
- The Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy
- Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops
- Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology
- Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology
Recipients of institutional grants
- Committee for Technology and Structures in Agriculture (Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V.)
- Center for Business Management in Horticulture (ZBG)
- German Centre for Forest Work and Technology (KWF)
- Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR)
- German Association for the Protection of Forests and Woodlands
- German Society for Nutrition (DGE)
- German Association for Landcare (DVL)
- German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ)
- Federal Association of the Regional Movement (BRB)
