Welcome to the Chair of Agricultural and Food Policy at the Institute of Agricultural Policy and Markets at the University of Hohenheim

The teaching and research activities and contributions to the public debate focus on description, understanding and design of German, European and international agricultural and food polices in a globalized world.

We aim for innovative solutions to global challenges to the agricultural and food sector and the bioeconomy and we aim to inspire students of the University of Hohenheim with innovative teaching approaches.

We achieve our objectives by applying empirically based, interdisciplinary and innovative political and economic research methodologies and a research-driven teaching approach.

Public lecture series in the summer semester 2024

 

The Scientific Advisory Board of the BMEL is organising an online lecture series* this summer semester on Mondays from 4 to 5:30 pm on the topic of the last report on "Neue Sorgfaltspflichten für Unternehmen des Agrar- und Ernährungssektors: Empfehlungen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwicklungen".

The first lecture of the series starts on 22 April and every week a different aspect of the topic will be presented together with guest speakers from business, NGOs and administration.

*All presentations from the lecture series are now available on YouTube: Agrar Marketing

Open Consultation Hours

Time: Wednesdays, 10-12 a.m., online via Zoom

Please register for the consultation hour by contacting Mrs. Beate Hammer. You’ll receive a confirmation and can than enter the waiting room via the Zoom link. Prof. Dr. Wieck will add you to the video conference.

Zoom-Link

Meeting-ID:
884 6854 6974 Passcode: 8VNn7f

Current topics:

  • 15.03.2024 | Wirtschaftsdienst
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess and M.Sc. Kristina Mensah have published an article entitled " Zwei Ernten später – der Ukrainekrieg und seine Folgen für die globale Versorgung und die europäische Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik " in the journal Wirtschaftsdienst.
  • 29.02.2024 | Nutztierforum
    Prof. Dr Christine Wieck gave a talk on " Tierschutzpolitik zwischen Staat und Markt – eine Bestandsaufnahme " at Nutztierforum at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Dummerstorf: "Der Tierhaltung eine Zukunft geben".
  • 01.02.2024 | Wissenschaftlicher Beirat für Agrarpolitik, Ernährung und gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz (WBAE)
    In an online webinar of the WBAE for stakeholders in Brussels and at EU level, Prof. Dr. Wieck gave the introductory keynote speech on the topic "Why do we need binding due diligence?". Other participants were Bernd Lange (MEP), Leonard Mizzi (DG INTA, EU) and Dr. Bettina Rudloff (SWP).
  • 18.01.2024 | Global Forum on Food and Agriculture
    At the Global Forum on Food and Agriculture in Berlin, the WBAE, together with the OECD, held an expert panel on "Neue Anforderungen der Sorgfaltspflicht für Unternehmen im Agrar- und Ernährungssektor: Normdiffusion und Partner Uptake".
  •  12.01.2024 | Evangelisches Bauernwerk
    “Animal welfare, the market, and public policies – An overview“
    Presentation by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck and Sara Dusel [in German] at an event organised by „Evangelisches Bauernwerk in Württemberg e.V.“ at the „Ländliche Heimvolkshochschule Hohebuch“.

  •  07.12.2023 | European Commission
    For the reforms of the EU legislation on animal welfare during transport, the European Commission (DG SANTE) has commissioned an external impact assessment study to which Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck and M.Sc. Sara Dusel contributed as co-authors.

  • 04.12.2023 |The Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection (WBAE)
    Invitation to the specialist event to present the new report by the BMEL Scientific Advisory Board on due dilligence "Supply chain legislation must not become a paper tiger"
  • 26.04.2023 | Economic Committee for Foreign Trade Issues at the BMEL
    Prof. Dr Wieck was invited as a guest to the Economic Committee for Foreign Trade Issues of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and gave a presentation on "Resilience and Due Diligence in Agricultural Supply Chains"
  • 20.04.2023 | Evangelisches Bildungswerk
    "Agriculture in Europe: Local Supply Security and Global Food Security - a Contradiction."
    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck and Kristina Mensah at an event organised by the Evangelische Erwachenbildung and the Evangelisches Bildungswerk in the Heidenhein district

  • 19.04.2023 |  EU Animal Welfare Policies
    PhD student Sara Dusel and Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck have published a Correspondence in Nature Food where they comment on the on-going reforms of EU animal welfare legislation (“Evidence gaps hinder animal welfare progress in the European Union").
  • 21.03.2023 | The Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection (WBAE)
    The Scientific Advisory Board - with Prof. Dr Wieck as a member - has published a new statement on the topic of food poverty under pandemic conditions.
  • 28.11.2022 | Agricultural Education Days Montabaur
    "Food Security and Sustainability Transformation in the Local Context."
    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck in the context of the Agricultural Education Days Montabaur 2022 "Agriculture with a promising future"
  • 18.11.2022 | AIARD
    "Scenario Analysis and its application in agricultural policy making"
    Dr. Arezou Babajani presented her research at the November Fireside Chat from the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)

  • 14.11.2022 | Water, People, Agriculture
    "Food, fuel, fertilizer: EU sustainability ambitions and implications for global food security".
    Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck in the framework of the Research Training Group Water - People - Agriculture

  • 14.11.2022 | SWR2 Forum
    "Animal Welfare in Retail - Just a Fig Leaf?"
     Discussion with Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck in the SWR2 Forum. More information at: https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/tierwohl-im-einzelhandel-nur-ein-feigenblatt-swr2-forum-2022-11-14-100.html

  • 30.10.2022 | G20-Think20
    Kareem, O.I. (2022), a member of the G20-Think20 (T20) Indonesian Presidency – Task force 4 – published a policy brief on “Agricultural and Trade Policies and the Developing Countries’ Competitiveness and Food Security.
    https://www.t20indonesia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TF4_Agricultural-and-Trade-Policies-and-the-Developing-Countries-Competitiveness-and-Food-Security_tf4.pdf

    20.10.2022 | Evangelisches Bildungswerk
    "Global trade - war in Ukraine, impact on agriculture here and worldwide. Food security and sustainability transformation in a local context."
    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck and Kristina Mensaah at an event organized by the Evangelisches Bauernwerk in the Kirchheim/Nürtingen district and the Evangelisches Bildungswerk in the Esslingen district.

  • 11.10.2022 | Change Dialogue Agriculture BW
    "Food Security in Times of Crises and Beyond - Theses and Perspectives from Science."
    Lecture by Jun. Prof Arndt Feuerbacher and Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck in the context of the Change Dialogue Agriculture BW.
    More information at: https://veraenderungsdialog.de/

  • 06.10.2022 | Die Zeit
    "What is ... agricultural policy all about? So says the professor."
    Article by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck in DIE ZEIT, Issue 41/2022

  • 04.10.2022 | European Commission
    The European Commission has published a Staff Working Document (SWD(2022) 328 final) in preparation of the revision of EU animal welfare legislation. The SWD features a cost-benefit analysis of the existing animal welfare legislation authored by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck and M. Sc. Sara Dusel.

  • 23.09.2022 | Strategy Dialog Agriculture
    Prof. Christine Wieck takes part in the panel discussion of the Sstaatministerium Baden-Württemberg in the context of the kick-off event of the "Strategy Dialogue Agriculture".
    More information at: https://stm.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilung/pid/auftakt-des-strategiedialogs-landwirtschaft

  • 19.09.2022
    Kareem, O.I.  and C. Wieck (2022) made a presentation on “Behind the Borders’ Trade Policy Measures in Intra-ECOWAS Agri-Food Trade: Evidence from Formal and Informal Cross-Border Trade” at the annual African Borderlands Research Network Conference of the University of Florida and Sahel West Africa Club, 10-11 February 2022, Paris, France. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a44f918f9a61e04cdd5d717/t/6320d2db69388a4f00bce1d8/1663095516648/2022+ABORNE+Conference-programme_9_13_2022.pdf

  • 08.09.2022 | GeWiSoLa Roundtable Discussion
    Prof. Christine Wieck organized together with the GFE a roundtable discussion on "EU/German-African cooperation on agri-food matters: quo vadis" as part of the 62nd annual meeting of the GeWiSoLa (Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus).

  • 7-9 September 2022
    At the 62ndAnnual Meeting of GEWISOLA (Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus) from 7 – 9 September 2022 in Hohenheim, Sara Dusel and Christine Wieck received one of the “Best Poster“ Awards for their poster with the title “Policy Beliefs, Argumentations and Actors’ Coalitions: A Comparative Analysis of the German Debates on Sow Stalls in 2019 and 2003”. The poster abstract will soon be available in AgEcon Search.
  • 07.09.2022 | Pre-Conference GeWiSoLa
    Prof. Christine Wieck and colleagues organized a pre-conference as part of the 62nd Annual Meeting of GeWiSoLa (Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Agriculture) with the theme "Repurposing subsidies: Challenges, scope and hope." More information at https://apo.uni-hohenheim.de/pre-conference-gewisola

  • 09.08.2022
    Kareem, O. I. and C. Wieck (2022) submitted a report titled “Research and Innovation to Improve Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Relation to the EU-Africa Trade in Agri-food Products” to the Long-Term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (LEAP4FNSSA).

  • 04.07.2022 | iEMSs
    "Scenario Planning for Organic Farming Development in Iran by Applying Cross Impact Balance (CIB) Analysis"
    Dr. Arezou Babajani presented her research on the iEMSs (11th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Brussels, Belgium)

  • 14.06.2022
    The current food and energy crisis requires innovative solutions that do not lead to new trade-offs. Agrivoltaics allow to produce food and energy on the same land and thus can contribute to food and energy security. However, it was unknown to what degree shading impacts crop yields – which is needed to optimize agrivoltaic systems and to conduct economic analyses. A new meta-analysis published in “Agronomy for Sustainable Development” authored by institute staff members and fellow Hohenheim researcher now quantify the yield responses to shading.
    "Contrasting yield responses at varying levels of shade suggest different suitability of crops for dual land-use systems: a meta-analysis"
  • 02.06.2022 | TU Munich
    "EU sustainability transformation in a global context: status quo, trade-offs and challenges."
    Presentation (online) by Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck at the Hans Eisenmann Forum for Agricultural Sciences of the TU Munich in the public lecture series "World Food and Food Security".

  • 02.06.2022
    Craig Chibanda, a doctoral researcher with the University of Hohenheim , has been selected to join the World Food Forum Young Scientists Group (YSG). The main objective of the Young Scientists Group (YSG) is to provide scientific evidence and technical knowledge to the various initiatives of the World Food Forum, and to develop an annual WFF Young Scientists report on specific policy issues of particular concern to youth, related to agrifood systems transformation.
    More information about the Young Scientists Group (YSG) is available here: http://www.world-food-forum.org/youth-action/young-scientists-group/en/
  • 24.-25.03.2022
    "Strategische und politische Agenda in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit in der Landwirtschaft und Ernährung: global – EU – Deutschland"
    Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck auf den KTBL-Tagen 2022: "Kinder haften für ihre Eltern – Impulse aus dem Ökolandbau" am 24. und 25. März 2022 in Magdeburg.
  • 13.01.2022
    Kareem, O.I. and Wieck, C. (2022) submitted a study report on “Mapping Agricultural Trade within ECOWAS: structure and flow of agricultural trade products, barriers to trade, financing gaps and policy options” to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). This has been published at https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/316918?ln=en
  • 20.12.2021
    A new DFG-Project (Sachbeihilfe) has been funded: Empirical analysis of sustainability trade-offs in EU agri-food production by combining indicator-based policy performance assessment with a theory-consistent production framework.
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck is the principle investigator.
  • 20.12.2021
    The following master theses were successfully defended in 2021:
    • Analysis of Agricultural Production Efficiency in Belt and Road Countries Based on DEA and Malmquist Indices
    • Pandemic and agriculture: case of Croatia
    • Agri-Photovoltaik als zusätzliche Einkommensquelle in der Landwirtschaft? Eine Ermittlung des wirtschaftlichen Potenzials für die Region Stuttgart
    • Assessing the impacts of rural roads on food security and rural livelihoods: Evidence from Bhutan
    • Tierwohl in der Sauenhaltung - Eine Politikanalyse mit dem Advocacy Coalition Framework
    • Impact of Agri-investments on Food Security in Sub-Saharan Countries
    • Pollinator population dynamics and ecosystems service provision stability: Implications for bioeconomic research and policy
    • Economic viability of cotton cultivation and effects on the resilience of smallholder farms in Cameroon - a potential and risk analysis
    • Impact analysis of multi-actor partnerships on European Union import pattern for sustainable agriculture commodities.
    • Sustainable Transformative Change in Agri-Food Systems: Analysis for Stuttgart
    Congratulations to all new AgEcon, Agribusiness and Bioeconomy Master of Science Professionals!
  • 24.11.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck gibt ein Interview im WDR 5 Morgenecho zur finalen Entscheidung zur GAP Reform.
  • 10.11.2021
    Dr. Kareem, O.I. and Prof. Dr. C. Wieck had a presentation (online) at the ACAFP Food Safety Conference for Africa (Virtual Event) on “Sanitary and Phytosanitary-Related Capacity Development in Africa: The Impact of the European Union Interventions on Market Access”, 10-11 November 2021, South Africa.
  • 17.09.2021
    Arezou Babajani presented (online) two posters at the International Tropentag Conference 2021 “Towards shifting paradigms in agriculture for a healthy and sustainable future”, organised by University of Hohenheim:
    - "Ecovillages as a Model of Sustainable Settlements in Rural Development Context: Principles and Main Elements"
    -"Influencing Factors on Consumers’ Perceptions and Awareness of Food Health and Organic Food in Iran"
  • 30.08.2021
    Arezou Babajani presented (online) a conference paper with her coauthors: Shantala Muellberger, Arndt Feuerbacher, Christine Wieck, entitled: "An Overview of Large-Scale Conversion Programs to Organic Agriculture in Asia" at the 31st ICAE (The International Conference of Agricultural Economists)-Online.
  • EAAE Congress July 2021
    Dr. Kareem, O.I. and Prof. Dr. C. Wieck made a presentation (online) on “Trade Policy Measures and Wine Trade in the Transatlantic Region: Evidence from the European Union and United States of America Trade Relations” and “The Sanitary and Phytosanitary-Related Capacity Development and Agri-food Market Access: The Impact of the European Union Intervention in Africa” at the XVI EAAE Congress, 20-23 July 2021, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 29.4.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck was invited as guest speaker for the Annual Trade and Sustainable Development Lecture (online)” at NUST University, Windhoek (Namibia). Her topic of the lecture was “Trade and sustainable development: analysis of challenges in striking the right balance using as example the EU Green Deal proposal.
  • 28.4.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck hielt im Slowfood Convivium Pfalz einen Vortrag zum Thema „Reform der EU Agrarpolitik: grüner, nachhaltiger, fair?“
  • 24.3.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck gab ein Impulsreferat zum Thema “ The European Green Deal – More sustainability or protection through the back door?” in der “Lecture Series Africa: Workshop talks in the German Bundestag”, organisiert vom Afrika-Verein der Deutschen Wirtschaft (German-African Business Association) in Berlin (online).
  • 11.3.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck was a panel member in the seminar “How to build a strategic partnership – EU-Africa relations in the spotlight”, organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Brussels (online).
  • 9.2.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck gab ein Impulsreferat zum Thema „Nachhaltigkeitsstandards: Internationale Entwicklungen, Gründe für nationale Unterschiede und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit“ auf dem Expertengespräch “Nachhaltigkeitsstandards für landwirtschaftliche Produkte”, organisiert vom Thünen Institut, Braunschweig (online).
  • 04.02.2021
    Neue Studie in Biological Conservation: Arndt Feuerbacher und Kollegen aus Hohenheim und dem bhutanischen Agrarministerium untersuchen in einer neuen Studie das ökonomische Potential von Elektrozäunen um die Kosten von Wildschäden zu mindern. auch in kleinbäuerlichen Verhältnissen und unter verschiedenen ökologischen Bedingungen wirtschaftlich rentabel sein können und dadurch zu besseren, nachhaltigen Lebensverhältnissen in ländlichen Gebieten beitragen können
    Auf den Artikel kann bis zum 25. März 2021 über diesen Link kostenlos zugegriffen werden. Hier der Ständige Link zum Artikel.
  • January 2021
    Dr. Kareem was selected to the G20 T20 Task Forces 3 (Trade, Investment and Growth) and 6 (Social Cohesion and Future of Welfare System).
  • 25.01.2021
    New article online
    :
    Christine Wieck co-authored with Jason Grant from Virginia Tech University (US) an article with the title: Codex in Motion: Food Safety Standard Setting and Impacts on Developing Countries’ Agricultural Exports
  • 15.01.2021
    Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck ist in den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat für Agrarpolitik, Ernährung und gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft berufen worden.
  • 25.11.2020
    Neue Studie
    in Environmental Modelling and Software: Zusammen mit Kollegen von der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin und dem Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Wien hat Arndt Feuerbacher eine Studie zu neuen Ansätzen für Unsicherheitsanalysen in Simulationsmodellen veröffentlicht.
  • 23.11.2020
    Digitale Fachtagung zu EU Agrarpolitik: „Zwischen Versorgungssicherheit, Ökologie und Ökonomie: Die Zukunft der europäischen Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Green Deal und Corona-Pandemie“ gemeinsam mit dem MLR und dem Europe Direct Informationszentrum Stuttgart (Programm-Flyer). Anmeldung unter assistenz@europe-direct-stuttgart.de
  • 16.11.2020
    A master thesis with the title “Comparative analysis of government support for agri-environmental measures with a focus on the EU and US” was successfully defended. Congratulations!
  • 23.10.2020
    Christine Wieck gibt ein Interview für die Fernsehsendung Ici l`Europe vom Sender France24 zur Ökologisierung der EU-Agrarpolitik. (In Teil 1).

    France- Allemagne: décidées à verdir leur agriculture post-Covid ?
    Partie 1
    | Partie 2

    It's not easy being green: Making European farming more sustainable
    Part 1 | Part 2
  • 09.9 .2020
    Dr. Feuerbacher received the Josef G. Knoll European Science Award for his dissertation "Economy-wide modelling of seasonal labour and natural resource policies".The prize was awarded by the fiat panis foundation during the Tropentag conference in Hohenheim on September 9th, 2020. The jury highlights that Dr. Feuerbacher's research on rural labour markets and policy analysis is "of high practical relevance for millions of poor people living in the tropics".
  • 7.9.2020
    Christine Wieck gibt ein Interview zum offiziellen Auftakt der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft im Radioprogramm HR-info Aktuell.
  • 21.07.2020
    We are research partners in the survey “Life with Corona
    You can participate in the survey here
  • July 2020
    The following master theses were successfully defended
    :
    -Towards 100% organic: What are the drivers, policies, challenges and possible impacts of large-scale conversion policies in Asia?
    -Does government support play a significant role in the agricultural productivity development of the European Union?
  • 18.03.2020
    Dr. Kareem’s paper was accepted for the World Bank Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington D.C., USA. (Link)
  • 9.3.2020
    Prof. Dr. Wieck nominated as member of scientific advisory board of German-African Business Association

(Link; Twitter)

  • 5.3.2020
    Prof. Dr. Wieck invited to speak at CEPS ideas lab 2020 in Brussels in session on “Food value chains, EU policies and sustainable development in Africa”. (Link)
  • 04.03.2020
    Julia Reimers participated in the 11th FERRERO Stakeholder Dialogue “FERRERO Glocal Care: How can palmoil be sourced sustainably?” in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • February 2020
    The following master theses were successfully defended
    : - Competitiveness of Animal Products Sector of the East African Community
    - Determinants of Export Competitiveness of the EU Poultry Meat Sector
    - Evaluating Food Safety Institutions in Nigeria using Genetically Modified (GM) Bt cowpea Market Introduction as a Case study
    - Agricultural Development Pathways for Unexploited Land in Zambia: An Analysis
    Congratulations!
  • 29.2.2020
    Dr. Feuerbacher and co-authors’ paper titled "Seasonal Rural Labor Markets and Their Relevance to Policy Analyses in Developing Countries"  is available in the Food Policy Journal
  • 19.-21.02.2020
    Julia Reimers was invited as a speaker to the workshop “Capacity Development of Farmers’ Organisations in Agricultural Trade”, hosted by the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) and the Andreas-Hermes-Academy (AHA) in Pretoria, South Africa.
  • 22.1.2020
    Prof. Dr. Wieck participated in a radio discussion on “Wird die Landwirtschaft zum Bauernopfer“ im SWR2 Forum.
  • December 2019
    The following master theses were successfully defended:

    - Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix in a data poor environment for an application to the agricultural sector
    - The pathways, opportunities and the main challenges for an implementation of SDG7 in Russia
    - Analyzing the impact of domestic agricultural policies on meat and dairy production in Russia
    - Comparative Analysis of CAP and SDG Indicator Framework
    - Partizipation und Governance in Multi-Akteurs-Partnerschaften: Eine Analyse der deutschen Foren Nachhaltiger Kakao und Nachhaltiges Palmöl
    - Steuervergünstigungen in der Landwirtschaft - Analyse und kritische Diskussion
    - Die industrielle Produktion von Insektenmehl in Deutschland als alternative Proteinquelle in der Nutztierfütterung
    Congratulations!
  • 12.12.2019
    Dr. Feuerbacher’s paper titled “The potential of national HWC mitigation policies: The economy-wide effects of a large-scale electric fencing intervention in Bhutan” was accepted for the International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Oxford, UK.
  • 09.12.2019
    Dr. Kareem was nominated into the G20 T20 Task Force on Trade, Investment and Growth. In addition, his three accepted policy briefs were presented at the G20 T20 Inception Workshop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • 6.12.2019
    Dr. Feuerbacher was invited to speak about “How to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2020” at the VHS Inzigkofen-Sigmaringen
  • 20.11.2019
    Dr. Kareem presented a paper at the UNECA-African Development Bank Triennial African Land Policy Conference in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. (Link)
  • 28.10.2019
    Dr. Kareem was invited to speak at the GIZ Sector Network Rural Development (SNRD), Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
  • 29.10.2019
    Julia Reimers won the innovation price for the website www.agripolicyKit.org at the GIZ Sector Network Rural Development (SNRD) Africa’s conference in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.
  • 22.-24.10.2019
    Prof. Dr. Wieck was invited as a speaker to the workshop “Capacity Development of Farmer Organisations in Agricultural Policy Making”, hosted by the East African Farmers Federation (EAFF) and the Andreas-Hermes-Academy (AHA) in Machokos County, Kenya.
  • 7.-11.10.2019
    In the framework of the Germany-wide Doctoral Certificate Program in Agricultural Economics PhD-candidate Julia Reimers participated in the module “Political Economy of Agriculture in High Income Economies” with Prof Dr Thomas Hertzberg at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) in Halle, Germany.
  • September 2019
    The following master theses were successfully defended:

    -  German Agri-food Products in the EU Common Market
    -  Positionen einzelner Mitgliedsstaaten zur Agrarpolitik der EU nach 2020 mit dem Fokus auf die Direktzahlungen: Darstellung und Analyse
    -  Descriptive Analysis of Extra-EU Agri-food Exports in the Context of Global Food Security
    -  The European Bioeconomy: Potentials and threats for food security
    Congratulations!
  • 27.06.2019
    Prof. Dr. Wieck was invited to speak at the WTO Agriculture Policy Symposium “The role of trade in the global agri-food system” at the WTO in Geneva. Topic of her talk was: The long way to integrated markets: SPS/TBT measures as a stumbling block to integrated food markets?
  • 20.06.2019
    Dr. Feuerbacher presented a paper titled: “No hassle with the hazelnut? The economy-wide impacts of a large-scale contract farming scheme in Bhutan” at the Global Economic Analysis conference in Warsaw, Poland.
  • 21.05.2019
    Dr. Feuerbacher presented a paper at the 4th World Congress on Agroforestry in Montpellier, France.
  • 18.11.2018
    Dr. Feuerbacher was invited to present his research about Bhutan’s 100% organic agriculture conversion policy at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FIBL) in Frick, Switzerland
  • 24.5.2018
    Prof. Dr. Wieck nominated as member of EU-Africa Task Force on “Rural Africa” (Link)