Joachim is the President of ECOTOP.
He studied tropical agriculture at Witzenhausen Germany and holds a master´s (Technical University of Berlin) and doctorate degree (Dr.rer.agr.) from Humboldt University of Berlin.
Since 1982 he is living in Bolivia and in 1996 he started converting his farm in the low lands of Bolivia into Successional Agroforestry, induced and supported by Ernst Götsch.
He is a shareholder of ECOTOP SRL and ECOTOP Swiss and co-founder of ECOTOP Foundation. His mission is spreading dynamic agroforestry all over the world to reconcile human activities with the principles of life.