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Einrichtungen

Institut für Lebensmittel- und Ressourcenökonomik

Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät

Universität Bonn

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Overview:

The 3-year ERA-NET project SUSTAINBEEF, jointly funded by the EU and the BMEL, links researcher focusing on beef production system with stakeholders to develop and assess innovative ways to improve the sustainability of beef production system. The contribution of the Economoc Modeling group in Bonn consists of detailed, quantiative bio-eonomic analysis of beef production systems in Germany based on the application of the FARMDYN model and support to partners in applying the model to study regions in their own country.

Further information on the project can be found on the project webpage SustainBeef maintained by our coordinating institution

Partners

• Sylvain Hennart, co-ordinator, Walloon Agricultural Research Center, Gembloux, Belgium
• Claire Mosnier, INRA, Saint-Genes-Champanelle, France
• Edward O'Riordan, Teagasc, Carlow, Ireland
• Sylvie Brouard, Institut de 'Elevage, Paris, France
• Giacomo Pirlo, Council for Agriculture Resarch and Economics, Lodi, Italy
• Carlo Bertozzi, Walloon Livestock Association, Ciney, Belgium

• Wolfgang Britz, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University Bonn, Germany
• James Breen, University College Dublin, Ireland

Contribution

Our group contributes to the following work packages:

• WP3: Systems performance (modeling) and evaluation through indicators
• WP4: Identify innovative approaches aimed at promoting the use of resources non edible by humans to produce beef

Staff working at ILR on the project

Wolfgang Britz, project lead

Christoph Pahmeyer, PhD student, project realization (from 10/2017)

Lennart Kokemohr, PhD student, project realization (from 9/2018)

Publications related to the project

Kuhn, T., Enders, A., Gaiser, T., Schäfer, D., Srivastava, A., Britz, W. (2019): Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany, Agricultural Systems, Link.

Kuhn, T., Schäfer, D., Holm-Müller, K., Britz, W. (2019): On-farm compliance costs with the EU-Nitrates Directive: A modelling approach for specialized livestock production in northwest Germany, Agricultural Systems 173: 233-243, Link.

Kuhn, T., Schaefer, D. (2018): A farm typology for North Rhine-Westphalia to assess agri-environmental policies. Discussion Paper 2018:1.
Download: Discussion Paper

Britz W., Lengers, B,.Kuhn, T. and Schäfer, D. (2014): A highly detailed template model for dynamic optimization of farms - FARMDYN, University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, Version September 2016, 147 pages.

This work is finacially supported by the German Federel Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) through the Federal Offfice for Agricultural and Food (BLE), grant number 21817ERA09D. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 696231.

Last updated: Saturday, December 21, 2019

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Recent publications

• Integrated assessment of legume production challenged by European policy interaction: A case-study approach from French and German dairy farms (2021) Heinrichs, J., Pahmeyer C., Britz, W. (2021): Integrated assessment of legume production challenged by European policy interaction: A case-study approach from French and German dairy farms, QOpen 1(1):1-19
• Metrics on the sustainability of region-specific bioplastics production, considering global land use change effects (2021) Escobar, N., Britz, W. (2021): Metrics on the sustainability of region-specific bioplastics production, considering global land use change effects, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 167(April 2021),2015345
• ‘Fruchtfolge’: A crop rotation decision support system for optimizing cropping choices with big data and spatially explicit modeling (2021) Pahmeyer, C., Kuhn, T., Britz, W. (2021): ‘Fruchtfolge’: A crop rotation decision support system for optimizing cropping choices with big data and spatially explicit modeling, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 181,105948
• Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany (2021) Heinrichs, J., Britz, W., Pahmeyer, C., Kuhn, T. (2021: Economic effects of plot sizes and farm-plot distances in organic and conventional farming systems: A farm-level analysis for Germany, Agricultural Systems 187,1029922020
• Long-Term Scenarios for Sub-Saharan Africa's Agro-Food Markets with varying Population, Income and Crop Productivity Trends (2021) Kuhn, A., Britz, W. (2021: Long-Term Scenarios for Sub-Saharan Africa's Agro-Food Markets with varying Population, Income and Crop Productivity Trends, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 46(1): 20-36
• Step-by-step development of a model simulating returns on farm from investments: the example of hazelnut plantation in Italy (2020) Spiegel, A., Severini, S., Britz, W., Coletta, A. (2020): Step-by-step development of a model simulating returns on farm from investments: the example of hazelnut plantation in Italy, Bio-Based and Applied Economics 9(1): 53-83
• Economic opportunities of using crossbreeding and sexing in Holstein dairy herds (2020) Pahmeyer, C. Britz, W. (2020): Economic opportunities of using crossbreeding and sexing in Holstein dairy herds, Journal of Dairy Science, 103(9):8218-8330
• Long-term impacts of bio-based innovation in the chemical sector: a dynamic global perspective (2020) Nong, D., Escobar, N., Britz, W., Börner, J. (2020): Long-term impacts of bio-based innovation in the chemical sector: a dynamic global perspective, Journal of Cleaner Production, 272: 122738
• Modelling Consumption and Constructing Long-Term Baselines in Final Demand (2020) Ho, M., Britz, W., Delzeit, R., Leblanc, F., Roson, R., Schuenemann, F., Weitzel, M. (2020): Modelling Consumption and Constructing Long-Term Baselines in Final Demand, Journal of Global Economic Analysis 5(1): 63-80
• Linking Global CGE Models with Sectoral Models to Generate Baseline Scenarios: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities (2020) Delzeit, R., Beach, R., Britz, W., Chateau, J., Freund, F., Lefevre, J., Schuenemann, F., Sulser, T., van Ruijven, B., Weitzel, M., Willenbockel, D., Wojtowicz, K. (2020): Linking Global CGE Models with Sectoral Models to Generate Baseline Scenarios: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities, Journal of Global Economic Analysis 5(1): 162-195
• Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally? (2020) Jafari, Y., Britz, W., Dudu, H., Roson, R., Sartori, M. (2020): Can Food Waste Reduction in Europe Help to Increase Food Availability and Reduce Pressure on Natural Resources Globally?, German Journal of Agricultural Economics 69(2): 143-168
• Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment (2020) Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2020): Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment, Empirica 47(1): 17-52
• Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany (2020) Kuhn, T., Enders, A., Gaiser, T., Schaefer, D., Srivastava, A., Britz, W. (2020): Coupling crop and bio-economic farm modelling to evaluate the revised fertilization regulations in Germany, Agricultural Systems 127: 104656
• Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model (2020) Seidel, C., Britz, W. (2020): Estimating a Dual Value Function as a Meta-Model of a Detailed Dynamic Mathematical Programming Model, Bio-based and Applied Economic 8(1): 75-99
• Stochastic-dynamic modelling of farm-level investments under uncertainty (2020) Spiegel, A., Britz, W., Finger, R., Djanibekov, U. (2020): Stochastic-dynamic modelling of farm-level investments under uncertainty, Environmental Modeling and Software, 127: 104656
• An economic and environmental assessment of a glyphosate ban for the example of maize production (2020) Boecker, T., Moehring, N., Finger, R., Britz, W. (2020): An economic and environmental assessment of a glyphosate ban for the example of maize production, European Review of Agricultural Economics 47(2): 371-402