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Stefan Wimmer was awarded the so called "Goldene Ähre" by the faculty's student body at the Day of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences on June 22. The award is given for very good teaching and outstanding dedication and course design. Students could vote for their favourite lecturer. We… [read more]

This Wednesday Stefan Wimmer will present his research results concerning market deregulation in the European sugar market. Date and place: 27/6/2018, 11-12 am, seminar room PuR Presenter: Stefan Wimmer Title: Market Deregulation and Sector Profitability: Empirical Evidence from Sugar Beet… [read more]

This Thursday Professor Sauer is invited at Agroscope, the Swiss centre of excellence for agricultural research. At the research site Tänikon he will present current research results and discuss cooperation possibilities with the Swiss colleagues. [read more]

This week Fabian Frick will present his research about innovation and productivity in the food and high-tech manufacturing sector. Date and place: 19/6/2018, 11-12 am, seminar room PuR Presenter: Fabian Frick Title: Innovation and Productivity in the Food vs. the High-Tech Manufacturing Sector … [read more]

Professor Sauer and Stefan Wimmer will participate in a meeting in Oslo as part of the project "Family farming in Europe" between June 11 and June 13. Among other things they will hold a public seminar entitled "Family farming in Europe: What's at stake?" together with the project partners… [read more]

The kick-off meeting on June 6 marks the official start of the EU project BioMonitor. Within the project our Chair group will study the quantification of bioeconomy and its economic, environmental and social impacts in the EU and its Member States. [read more]

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Richard Smart's article "Trends in Approval Times for Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States and the European Union" published in the Journal of Agricultural Economics, was one of the journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers. As of year-end 2017 the article had received 1155… [read more]

On May 23, our new colleague Maria Vrachioli will talk about her research in the field of impact evaluation of irrigation technology. Date and place: 30/5/2018, 11-12 am, seminar room PuR Presenter: Maria Vrachioli Title: Impact Evaluation of Alternative Irrigation Technology in Crete: Correcting… [read more]

For the second time Professor Sauer and Stefan Wimmer travel to Beijing in the course of the Chair's internationalization activities. They will continue to work on a research project that was started with Dr. Jing You from the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Renmin… [read more]