Committee Member
Noah Wildisen
Top 50 Farmers is an acceleration platform paving the way for regenerative agriculture to be scaled from soil to gut. We identify the farmers who are role modeling what the future of farming looks like and share their stories. We also connect them with industry executives and pioneering thought leaders to unlock new opportunities across the value chain.
Noah Wildisen is an agricultural economist studying at ETH Zurich, working at the nonprofit Soil to Soul, and currently training to become an alpine shepherd. These different worlds reflect what interests him most about agriculture: the people who practise it, the places that shape it, and the many forms it can take.
His academic interests lie in agroecology, agricultural policy, and international cooperation, with people always at the centre. His work has explored gender and inequality in food systems, while field research in Switzerland and abroad has strengthened his interest in the realities behind agricultural policies and theories.
Much of this curiosity has also been shaped on two wheels. Travelling by bicycle through Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and West Africa has brought Noah into contact with farmers and pastoralists and with different relationships to land, animals, food, and community.
His training in alpine shepherding follows the same curiosity, but makes it practical: an opportunity to understand agriculture not only through research, but through working with animals and landscapes himself.
Noah believes the future of agriculture lies in diversity rather than uniformity, across farming systems, landscapes, knowledge, and people. He is particularly interested in small-scale farms and farmers who experiment, adapt, and work closely with their local environments. For him, the future of agriculture will not come from a single blueprint, but from creating the conditions for farmers to drive change in their own landscapes and communities.
Noah Wildisen is an agricultural economist studying at ETH Zurich, working at the nonprofit Soil to Soul, and currently training to become an alpine shepherd. These different worlds reflect what interests him most about agriculture: the people who practise it, the places that shape it, and the many forms it can take.
His academic interests lie in agroecology, agricultural policy, and international cooperation, with people always at the centre. His work has explored gender and inequality in food systems, while field research in Switzerland and abroad has strengthened his interest in the realities behind agricultural policies and theories.
Much of this curiosity has also been shaped on two wheels. Travelling by bicycle through Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and West Africa has brought Noah into contact with farmers and pastoralists and with different relationships to land, animals, food, and community.
His training in alpine shepherding follows the same curiosity, but makes it practical: an opportunity to understand agriculture not only through research, but through working with animals and landscapes himself.
Noah believes the future of agriculture lies in diversity rather than uniformity, across farming systems, landscapes, knowledge, and people. He is particularly interested in small-scale farms and farmers who experiment, adapt, and work closely with their local environments. For him, the future of agriculture will not come from a single blueprint, but from creating the conditions for farmers to drive change in their own landscapes and communities.
