24.06.2025

New paper in Q-Open by the Production Economics Group (lead by Niklas Möhring):
"Pesticide-free agriculture: insights into farmer adoption across crops"

Find the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoaf014 

Also find a blog article (in German) on the paper here: https://mohringlab.com/ackerbau-ohne-pflanzenschutzmittel-ein-vergleich-von-erkenntnissen-aus-verschiedenen-kulturen/

21.05.2025

Yesterday Dr. Thomas Böcker from the chamber of agriculture in North-Rhine Westphalia (Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen) presented our students the important work of the chamber and the relevance of Agricultural Economics for their work.

Thanks again for your insightful presentation, Thomas!

15.05.2025

We were honored to have Céline Bonnet (Toulouse School of Economics) as a guest at the Production Economics Group this week.

Céline presented her work on "Can the economic and environmental impacts of policies targeting animal-based product consumption be reconciled? A value chain approach" in the ILR Food and Resource Economics Seminar.

Thanks for the insightful presentation and exchanges to Céline!

16.04.2025

Niklas Möhring was named Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS on the topic of “Pesticides”.

He was ranked amongst the top 0.05% of scholars (global position 12) on the topic over research output in the last 5 years.

Recent publications:

• Wen, X., Mennig, P., Li, H., & Sauer, J. (2024). Geographic networks matter for pro-environmental waste disposal behavior in rural China: Bayesian estimation of a spatial probit model. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 211, 107854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107854
• Dalhaus, T., Finger, R., Tzachor, A., & Möhring, N. (2024). Innovations for pesticide application must consider environmental impact. Nature Food, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01080-0
• Dalhaus, T., Wu, J., & Möhring, N. (2023). Rapidly growing subsidization of crop insurance in Europe ignores potential environmental effects. Nature Plants, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01569-9
• Devilliers, E., Möhring, N., & Finger, R. (2023). Estimation and comparison of the performance of low-input and conventional agricultural production systems. Q Open, qoad032. https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoad032
• Finger, R., Sok, J., Ahovi, E., Akter, S., Bremmer, J., Dachbrodt-Saaydeh, S., ... & Möhring, N. (2024). Towards sustainable crop protection in agriculture: A framework for research and policy. Agricultural Systems, 219, 104037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104037
• Finger, R., Möhring, N., & Kudsk, P. (2023). Glyphosate ban will have economic impacts on European agriculture but effects are heterogenous and uncertain. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00951-x
• Finger, R., Schneider, K., Candel, J., & Möhring, N. (2024). Europe needs better pesticide policies to reduce impacts on biodiversity. Food Policy, 125, 102632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102632
• Garcia, V., Möhring, N., Wang, Y., & Finger, R. (2024). Risk Perceptions, Preferences, and the Adoption Dynamics of Pesticide-Free Production. Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 49(1). https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000651437
• Lefebvre, M., Raineau, Y., Aubert, C., Möhring, N., Pedehour, P., & Raynal, M. (2024). Green Insurance for Pesticide Reduction: Acceptability and Impact for French Viticulture. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 51(5), 1201-1272. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf002
• Möhring, N., Kanter, D., Aziz, T., Castro, I. B., Maggi, F., Schulte-Uebbing, L., ... & Leadley, P. (2023). Successful implementation of global targets to reduce nutrient and pesticide pollution requires suitable indicators. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02120-x
• Möhring, N., Mark, J., & Finger, R. (2025). Pesticide-free agriculture: insights into farmer adoption across crops. Q Open, 5(2), qoaf014. https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoaf014
• Möhring, N., Muller, A., & Schaub, S. (2024). Farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture—a systematic global literature review. European Review of Agricultural Economics, jbae025. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbae025
• Möhring, N., Huber, R., & Finger, R. (2023). Combining ex-ante and ex-post assessments to support the sustainable transformation of agriculture: The case of Swiss pesticide-free wheat production. Q Open, 3(3), qoac022. https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoac022
• Wang, Y., Möhring, N., & Finger, R. (2023). When my neighbors matter: Spillover effects in the adoption of large‐scale pesticide‐free wheat production. Agricultural Economics, 54(2), 256-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12766
• Ziehmann, E., Möhring, N., & Finger, R. (2024). Economics of herbicide‐free crop production. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13461

Communication and Outreach:

• Science brief for the United Nations Global biodiversity framework (Lead on pesticide pollution): David Kanter, Niklas Möhring, Paul Leadley, Tariq Aziz, Italo Castro, Federico Maggi, Ralf Schulz, Lena Schulte-Uebbing, Fiona Tang, Xin Zhang. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Science briefs on targets, goals and monitoring in support of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework negotiations. 2022. https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/6053/38a4/3710d6e83f5b006ef774607d/wg2020-04-inf-02-rev-01-en.pdf
• Blog on the Earth & Environmental Sciences Blog about our paper “Glyphosate ban will have economic impacts on European agriculture but effects are heterogeneous and uncertain”: https://earthenvironmentcommunity.nature.com/posts/economic-effects-of-a-glyphosate-ban-on-european-agriculture

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Project BEES

Marine Coinon from the Production Economics Group, together with Céline Bonnet (TSE-R, INRAE), has been awarded a research grant from the French EXPLOR'AE 'research at risk' programme. This funding will support their interdisciplinary research project "BEES - Biodiversity, Pesticides and Public Policies". This programme is entrusted to INRAE by the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education and funded by France 2030 (ANR-24-RRII-0003 reference).