Institute for Food and Resource Economics

Jan-Philip Uhlemann has just won the Agricultural Economics Society Paper Award at the AES conference in Oxford for his paper "Automating Food Production: Evidence from the Dutch Food Industry".

Josef Baumert had won the Best PhD Presentation Award with "Fusing Generative AI and Economic Modelling to Estimate Field-Level Crop Production in Data-Scarce World Regions" at the AES conference in Oxford.

The University of Bonn is hosting a new Emmy Noether Group devoted to AI methods. Junior Professor Marc Rußwurm is developing AI methods for fusing different types of geodata to arrive at a uniform geospatial representation. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing up to 1.4 million euros in funding for the research group over the next six years. The Emmy Noether Program is a framework designed to enable selected postdocs and assistant professors on fixed-term contracts to obtain the qualifications necessary to hold a university professorship.

What would happen if farmers around the globe were to switch over to sustainable pest management? An international study headed by the University of Bonn and ETH Zurich focused on precisely this question. The study is based on assessments provided by more than 500 leading experts from around the world who work in various disciplines from ecology through to economics. Most of those surveyed believe that the consequences of such a transformation would be positive in the long term – even from an economic perspective. However, the main effects of this transformation will vary around the world depending on the region. The results were recently published in the journal Nature Communications.