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Press release: Decoupled direct payments make agriculture more productive

New publication: Zhu, B. X., Vrachioli, M., Sauer, J. (2023). Regional Employment Impact of Biorefineries in the EU. EuroChoices

Professor Sauer travels to Costa Rica at the invitation of the FAO LEAP Partnership (25/11-30/11)

The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership, launched by the FAO in July 2012, is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to improve the environmental performance of livestock supply chains while ensuring economic and social sustainability. The partnership, which…

Professor Sauer presenter at the 32nd meeting of the OECD’s Farm Level Analysis Network (07/11-08/11)

On November 7-8 the 32nd Meeting of the OECD’s Farm Level Analyses Network (FLAN) took place in Paris. The FLAN, established in 2008 under the auspices of the OECD, unites experts from government-related institutions and agricultural research institutes, who are working on the collection and…

ANLiegen Natur magazine reports about research of the chair group in the area of agroforestry

In the current issue of ANLiegen Natur (issue 46/1, 2023), the journal for nature conservation and applied landscape ecology of the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management (ANL), a report entitled "The willingness of Bavarian farmers to cultivate agroforestry systems in the…

PuR chair organizes joint pumpkin carving (31/10)

Professor Sauer guest speaker at the 11th Biennial Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy in Cape Town (23/10-27/10)

Every other year, the Department for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the University of California and the California Institute for Water Resources invite 50 leading scientists and managers in the field of water use to the Rosenberg Forum. The forum originated in 1996 with an endowment gift from…

Professor Sauer Keynote speaker at the German Embassy in Delhi, India (16/10)

On October 16, 2023, Prof. Sauer participated in the event “Indian and German perspectives on the utilization of advanced production technologies” organized by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and RWTH Aachen University at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in New Delhi. Prof.…

PuR strengthens its network in Colombia and Ecuador (18/09-30/09)

During the last two weeks of September (2023), TUM’s Chair for Agricultural Production and Resource Economics (PuR) members visited Colombia and Ecuador. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), this visit corresponds to the development of the Network on Climate-Smart…

New publication: Mennig, P., Sauer, J. (2023). Revisiting the impact of decoupled subsidies on farm performance: a counterfactual analysis using microdata. Applied Economics.