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New publication: Mennig, P. (2025). Who cares about agriculture? Analyzing German parliamentary debates on agriculture and food with structural topic modeling. Food Policy

PuR Dr. Vrachioli @ Economic & Policy research seminar

On Tuesday, the 10th of Decemeber, PuR senior researcher Dr. Maria Vrachioli will be the guest speaker in the Economic and Policy research seminar series of TUM. Dr. Vrachioli is a leading expert with several years of experience on the topics of production economics, natural resource economics, and…

AGRO-WELL project kick-off meeting

On Tuesday (10th of December) and Wednesday (11th of December), the Chair of Agricultural Production and Resource Economics will host the kick-off meeting of “AGRO-WELL: Agricultural Robotics and Augmented Reality for Workplace Enhancement and Labor Linkage”, a Research and Innovation Action project…

Prof. Dr. Sauer at DEFRA - Agricultural Economic Society conference

Last Friday, 6th of December, Prof. Dr. Johannes Sauer took part as guest speaker in the conference "Whole Farm Business Resilience", organized by DEFRA - Agricultural Economic Society. Prof. Sauer shared his expertise on the relevance of resilience measures for the quantification of economic…

3rd Weihenstephan Future Forum on Agricultural Policy - MO 27.01.2025, 5 pm, Campus Weihenstephan (lecture room 12)

Subsidy-free agriculture in global markets - conceivable, feasible, desirable?

Philipp Mennig guest speaker at a workshop of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests (20/11)

At the invitation of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests, Philipp Mennig reported on research results and methodological approaches in the PuR project “Scientific Monitoring of Model Organic Regions in Bavaria".

New publication: Ptacek, M.; Frick, F.; Pahl, H.; Stetter, C.; Wimmer, S.; Sauer, J. (2024). ‘ShapeCostTUM’: A calculation tool for field geometry dependent cultivation and transport costs. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

The head of the PuR Chair, Dr. Johannes Sauer, is leading a working group on the topic of “Shocks and economic resilience” at the German National Academic Foundation's Summer Academy

Abstract: Shocks refer to unexpected and significant events that disrupt the normal functioning of an economy and society and lead to a sudden and substantial impact on key economic characteristics (such as performance, demand, growth, prices etc.) These shocks can have both short-term and…

New publication: Mennig, P. (2024). A never-ending story of reforms: on the wicked nature of the Common Agricultural Policy. npj Sustainable Agriculture

New publication: Wen, X., Mennig, P., Sauer, J. (2024). Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis. Ecological Economics