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 twelve 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.
Dr. Martin Paul Tabe-Ojong - a former PhD student of the Department of Economics and Agricultural Policy wins the Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers 2023.
Which sustainability goals do people in Germany find more important: Animal welfare? Or environmental protection? Human health is another one of these competing sustainability goals. A team of researchers from the Department of Agricultural and Food Market Research at the University of Bonn have now found that consumers surveyed in their study would rather pay more for salami with an “antibiotic-free” label than for salami with an “open barn” label that indicates that the product promotes animal welfare. The results have now been published in the journal “Q Open.”
As part of an excursion, our AFECO students were able to take on the role of a forester and had to decide whether particular trees should remain in the forest or should be cut for economic purposes.
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Institute for Food and Resource Economics
Managing director: Prof. Dr. Jan Börner
Faculty of Agriculture
The faculty of agriculture 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
Connect with other researchers and research groups of the University of Bonn.
ILR intranet
Here staff of the institute find usueful information for their daily operations.