Institute for Food and Resource Economics

The Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) is part of the University of Excellence Bonn. It is composed of eleven research groups dedicated to applied economic research on sustainable food and biomass systems. ILR was established on April 1, 2006, when the Institute of Agricultural Economics merged with the Institute of Agricultural Policy, Market Research, and Economic Sociology.

News
Field Visit to the Food Akademie Teaching Supermarket in Neuwied
On 7 May 2025, members of the "Socioeconomics of Sustainable Nutrition" and "Agricultural and Food Market Research" working groups participated in an intensive exchange visit to the teaching supermarket of the Food Akademie in Neuwied.
The AES conference in Oxford 2026: The Agricultural Economics Society Paper Award
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".
The AES conference in Oxford 2026: Best PhD Presentation Award
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.
AI with Locality Awareness
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.

Contact

How to find us
© Michael Kneuper

Institute for Food and Resource Economics

Managing director: Prof. Dr. David Wüpper

Secretariat

gd@ilr.uni-bonn.de

Address

Nußallee 21
53115 Bonn

Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences

The Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences is working on the science of key challenges such as sustainable energy provision and food security, using its unique linkages between agricultural, nutritional, economic and food sciences and geodesy. 

Theodor-Brinkmann-Graduate School

The foundation was established in memory of the great Bonn agricultural economist Prof. Dr. Theodor Brinkmann.

It aims to promote the exchange of ideas between the Faculty of Agriculture and the Foundation and to support the transfer of knowledge between theory-based research and practice.

Portal for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers

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