The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU University) is a university in Vienna, Austria, that says it is dedicated to teaching and research on sustainability and the management of natural resources. It began in 1872 as a small agricultural university, the k. k. Hochschule für Bodencultur, and today has six departments at its Türkenschanze, Muthgasse and Tulln sites.
Agriculture is taught and researched in the Department of Agricultural Sciences, which the university says focuses on agricultural systems and the interactions of microorganisms, plants, animals and humans. Its institutes include Crop Breeding and Genomics, Plant Protection, Organic Farming, Livestock Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, and Viticulture and Pomology. It runs the Experimental Farm Groß-Enzersdorf, with further sites at Jedlersdorf in Vienna, a research greenhouse and an experimental station at Tulln. Forest research sits in institutes such as Silviculture, Forest Growth and Forest Engineering, alongside a Forest Demonstration Centre. BOKU names Agricultural Production and Food as one of its six competence areas.