The summer school course was based in Rheinau, a beautiful small and mysterious village in northern Switzerland, in a loop of the Rheine River and on the boarder of Germany. The course entitled Organic Production Systems was hosted by the World Food System Centre and ETH Zurich. The small village of Rheinau, and the organic farm that makes up most of surrounding area and fields in-between the village was the perfect setting for the course. Organic farm learning and field work was done in the long summer evenings after lectures that were held during the day both in Rheinau and at relevant food system stakeholders in the region. Lecture presentations were given by specialists in their fields, discussing all elements of the value chain, ranging from sustainable agricultural production systems, seed breeding, to marketing, distribution, retail and global food system outcomes and policy issues. It was very beneficial gaining an understanding of the food system from a European or developed world perspective, which sheds light on power inequalities and the ways and means in which developing counties, particularly in Southern Africa, respond.