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Production Economics Group
Welcome to the Production Economics group at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) of the University of Bonn.
Teaching and research of our group focus on the quantitative analysis of farm- and firm-level decisions in the agriculture and food sector.
News
23.05.2022
New paper on “Spatiotemporal characterization of agricultural drought in the Sahel region using a composite drought index” co-authored by Alisher Mirzabaev published in the Journal of Arid Environments. Link
17.05.2022
Alisher Mirzabaev gave a keynote presentation on the occasion of the launch of the new ECON-WOCAT dataset during the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on 17 May 2022. This new dataset provides the information on the costs and benefits of more than 500 sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and expected to become an important source of information for designing international land restoration investments. Link
17.05.2022
Alisher Mirzabaev gave a virtual presentation on “Climate change and food systems” during the 3rd International Healthy Nutrition Congress organized by the University of Trakya (Turkey) on 17 May 2022.
17.05.2022
Alisher Mirzabaev, together with the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) secretariat at GIZ and University of Rwanda, launched a new study on “Harmonizing land restoration activities under the three Rio Conventions in Rwanda” during the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on 17 May 2022. This study will be conducted by the Production Economics group at the Institute of Food and Resource Economics (ILR) together with the University of Rwanda and the Strategy and Policy Council under the Office of the President of Rwanda. The study is supported by ELD Secretariat at GIZ.
01.04.2022
Prof. Dr. Silke Hüttel assumes a professorship at the University of Göttingen. Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev is Interim Head of the Production Economics group.
20.01.2022
New working paper "Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes – insights from a case study in North Rhine-Westphalia" co-authored by Reinhard Uehleke and Silke Hütttel (Link)
13.01.2022
New paper "Evaluations of agri-environmental schemes based on observational farm data: The importance of covariate selection" co-authored by Reinhard Uehleke and Silke Hüttel published in Land Use Policy (Link)
03.12.2021
New working paper "The replicability crisis and the p-value debate – what are the consequences for the agricultural and food economics community?" co-authored by Silke Hüttel (Link)
25.11.2021
New DFG financed Collaborative Research Centre "Regional Climate Change: The Role of Land Use and Water Management" with co-speaker Silke Hüttel (Link)
22.10.2021
New paper "Measuring On-Farm Phosphorus Fertiliser Use—Lessons Learned from Surveying Data of Five Regions in Northern Germany" co-authored by Silke Hüttel published in Agronomy (Link)
04.10.2021
Best Paper Award for the contribution "On the price effect of a right of first refusal in farmland auctions", co-authored by Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert and Silke Hüttel, at the 61st GEWISOLA conference (Link)
24.09.2021
New paper "Market Power in Agricultural Land Markets: Concepts and Empirical Challenges" co-authored by Silke Hüttel and Stefan Seifert published in The German Journal of Agricultural Economics (GJAE) (Link)
20.01.2020
2 contributions by the Chair of Production Economics accepted at the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society
29.10.2019
New ForLand working paper "Price dispersion in farmland markets: what is the role of asymmetric information?" by Christoph Kahle, Stefan Seifert and Silke Hüttel (Link)
26.09.2019
Conference talk on the topic "Price dispersion in thin farmland markets: what is the role of asymmetric information?" by Christoph Kahle at the Annual GEWISOLA Conference (Link)
25.09.2019
Pre-conference workshop at the Annual GEWISOLA Conference on the topic "New regulations for farmland markets" organized by Prof. Dr. Silke Hüttel and Andreas Tietz (Link)
20.09.2019
New SiAg working paper "Agricultural policy evaluation with large-scale observational farm data: Environmental impacts of agri-environmental schemes" by Reinhard Uehleke, Martin Petrick and Silke Hüttel (Link)
15.09.2019
New research grant for the project "Transform2Bio" (Link)
10.09.2019
Conference talk on the topic "Animal welfare and production efficiency in pork production" by Reinhard Uehleke at the 3rd REECAP workshop (Link)
19.07.2019
New ForLand working paper "Farm eco-efficiency: can sustainable intensification make the difference?" by Meike Weltin and Silke Hüttel (Link)
Research areas of the Production Economics group
The production economics group mainly works quantitatively on farm- and firm-level decisions, in particular on dis-investment decisions to analyse structural change in agriculture using microeconometric methods, farmland market analysis, land auction analysis, impact evaluation of policies and practices that target at improving ecological outcomes and farm animal welfare of food production and measurement of firm-specific efficiency under risk. Thereby the group relies on methods for ecological and economic efficiency analysis (eco-efficiency).
Details on specific projects can be found here:
Production Economics Group
Interim Head of the group
Dr. Alisher Mirzabaev
Address
Meckenheimer Allee 174
53115 Bonn
Secretariat
Jacqueline Fabula
Office hours
Because of the restrictions, caused by the corona pandemic, please use E-Mail to arrange appointments.