26.06.2025

Niklas Möhring held an invited lecture on “The future of agro-chemicals: Towards sustainable plant protection” at the European University Institute, Florence.
Thanks for the insightful presentation and exchanges to Céline!

25.06.2025

It was a great pleasure to have Jacob Moscona (MIT) present his work on “Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture” in the ILR Food and Resource Economics Seminar x PhenoRob Seminar Series today. Thanks again for the great presentation, Jacob!

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!

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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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).