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Teaching

• Master of Agricultural and Food Economics (AFECO)
• Theodor-Brinkmann-Graduate School

Projects

• BATMODEL Better Agri-food Trade Modelling for Policy Analysis, HORIZON 2020, 2020-2024
• Phenorob Robotocs and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production, Contribution to Core Project 6 on Technology Adaption and impact, DFG Excellence Strategy, 2020-2024
• MIND-STEP Modelling Individual Decisions to Support the European Policies Related to Agriculture, HORIZON 2020, 2019-2023
• Transform2Bio Integrated Transformation Processes and Their Regional Implementations: Structural Change from Fossil Economy to Bioeconomy, BIOSC, 2019-2022
• BEST Bio-Economy in Europe and SDGs: Development, Contribution and Trade-Offs, BMBF, 2019-2022
• LIFT Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming, HORIZON 2020, 2018-2022
• Further projects

Units

Institute for Food and Resource Economics

Faculty of Agriculture

University Bonn

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Economic Modeling of Agricultural Systems Group

 

The focus of our work is on the development and application of economic simulation models from farm to global scale to analyze quantitatively questions in the agri-food system related to sustainability and provision of eco-systems services. Recent examples relate to optimal farm management and investment strategies in a changing market and policy environment considering risk, regional scale analysis of structural change and nutrient exchanges between farms in Agent-Based Models and long-term projections of the global food system.

The working group, established in 2017, serves as a hub for economic modeling in research and teaching at institute and faculty level. Master students enrolled in our AFECO program can obtain a minor in economic modeling based on our courses.

We collaborate in numerous projects within international research networks, and offer our students and young researchers an internationally oriented teaching and research environment.

 

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Last updated: Monday, January 25, 2021
   

News

• Aus unserer Forschung: Bioplastik im Nachhaltigkeits-Dilemma
  Bioplastics in the sustainability dilemma
• Best video award of DIGICROP conference for Christoph Pahmeyer : "Fruchtfolge: A crop rotation decision support system"
• Video for LCA conference by Lennart Kokemohr : "Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of beef production in Germany based on a farm level optimization level"
• New H2020 research project BATMODEL, 2020-2024
• Contribution to DFG Excellence cluster Phenorob, 2020-2024
• GTAP research fellow award for Wolfgang Britz
• Aus unserer Forschung: Oekonomische und oekologische Bewertung eines Glyphosatverzichts am Beispiel der Silomaisproduktion in Nordrhein-Westfalen

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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