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
New DFG Collaborative Research Center "FoodDiverse" to be established at the University of Bonn
Whether it’s malnutrition, diet-related diseases, or negative environmental impacts, our food systems are neither sustainable nor sufficiently resilient. A promising approach to changing this is to diversify food systems.
The 54th Annual Conference of SGA, 2026: Andreia Arbenz won the Best Paper Presentation Award
Andreia Arbenz won the Best Paper Presentation Award at the 54th Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA),  held on 7–8 May 2026 on “Economics and Social Resilience in the Agricultural and Food Sector,” for her paper “Assessing and mapping the agroecological performance of grassland farms in the Swiss mountain region” (co-authored with S. Roman, G. Mack, J. Ammann, and N. Möhring).
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".

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.

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