Faculty of
Agriculture

See also

• Research at the Department for Economics and Agricultural Policy
• Historical development:Research 1972 - 2000

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Research topic at the former chair for "Volkswirtschaftslehre, Agrarpolitik und landwirtschaftliches Informationswesen" (until 2002)

Transition economics and countries

Note: The research activities were classified into research topics in 2000 under the head of the former chair, Prof. Henrichsmeyer. Our team dynamically develops its research agenda and refrains today from a strict classification. Not all topics documented at that time are comprised in our current research portfolio as indiacted by time spans and publication years.

• PIT Development of a policy information system for the agricultural sectors of the Central and Eastern European transition countries
• idara Strategy for Integrated Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas in CEE Countries
• Development of Agricultural Market Information Systems in Middel und Eastern European Countries
• Agricultural policy consulting

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Last updated: Tuesday, October 19, 2010

News

• Special issue of the journal World Economy on Non-Tariff-Measures with contributions of researchers in the institute Beghin, J. and Orden, D. (Guest Eds.)(2012):
  "NTMs, Agricultural and Food Trade, and Competitiveness", Special Issue of The World Economy (forthcoming)
• Individual grant by DFG (German Science Foundation) "Analysis of dairy production systems differentiated by location; bewilligt Principal investigators Christine Wieck and Thomas Heckelei, Doctoral student Yyonne Zavelberg, 3/2012-3/2015
• Individual grant by DFG (German Science Foundation) "The relation between indicators for the crediting of emission rights and abatement costs -a systematic modelling approach for dairy farms" Principal investigators Karin Holm-Müller and Wolfgang Britz, Doctoral student Bernd Lengers, 11/2011-11/2014

Recent publications

• Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU Renwick, A., Jansson, T., Verburg, P. H., Revoredo-Giha, C., Britz, W., Gocht, A. and McCracken, D., (2012):
  "Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU", Land Use Policy, 30 (2013) 446 - 457, doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.04.005
• EU-Wide (Regional and Farm Level) Effects of Premium Decoupling and Harmonisation Following the Health Check Reform Britz, W., Gocht, A., Pèrez Dominguez, I., Jansson, T., Grosche, S. und Zhao, N.(2012):
  "EU-Wide (Regional and Farm Level) Effects of Premium Decoupling and Harmonisation Following the Health Check Reform", German Journal of Agricultural Economics61, p. 44-56
• TRQ-complications: who gets the benefits when the EU liberalizes Mercosur's access to the beef markets? F. Junker and T. Heckelei(2012):
  "TRQ-complications: who gets the benefits when the EU liberalizes Mercosur's access to the beef markets?", Agricultural Economics 43(2), p. 215-231
• Modelling Regional Input Markets With Numerous Processing Plants: The Case Of Green Maize For Biogas Production In Germany R. Delzeit, W. Britz and H. Holm-Müller(2011):
  "Modelling Regional Input Markets With Numerous Processing Plants: The Case Of Green Maize For Biogas Production In Germany", Environmental Modelling & Software 32, p. 74-84
• Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation Storm, H., T. Heckelei and C. Heidecke (2011):
  "Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation", Journal of Environmental Management 92(10), p. 2803-2809
• Scale changes and model linking methods for integrated assessment of agri-environmental systems Ewert, F., M. Van Ittersum, T. Heckelei, O. Therond, I. Bezlepkina and E. Andersen (2011):
  "Scale changes and model linking methods for integrated assessment of agri-environmental systems", Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 142(1-2), p. 6-17
• Farm, land, and soil nitrogen budgets for agriculture in Europe calculated with CAPRI Leip, A., W. Britz, F. Weiss and W. de Vries (2011):
  "Farm, land, and soil nitrogen budgets for agriculture in Europe calculated with CAPRI", Environmental Pollution 159(11), p. 3243-3253
• Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of European Agribusiness Firms L. Adenäuer and T. Heckelei (2011):
  "Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of European Agribusiness Firms", Journal of Agricultural Economics 62(3), p. 639-654