The Agricultural Economics and Policy Group at ETH Zurich was established in January 2016, and celebrates its tenth anniversary. Over the coming weeks, we will be reflecting on the past (and the future) in a series of blog posts Here is the first (in German): agrarpolitik-blog.com/2026/01/05/1...

Join us! ETH Zürich and the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) is seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition @usyseth.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

‘Harnessing satellite data for the next generation of agri-environmental policies’ New paper in Environmental Research Letters led by @davidwuepper.bsky.social, & with Jan Dirk Wegner, Nikolina Mileva, Jean Bouchat, Shijuan Chen, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea Open Access iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

📣Interested in investigating whether/how land users consider soil biodiversity🪱 in their management decisions & what consequences this have for designing incentives? While being part of an interdisciplinary research training group? Apply here⬇️ recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/33...

'Rückblick 2025: Ein vielfältiges Jahr im Agrarpolitik-Blog' Neuer Beitrag mit @robehube.bsky.social. Vielen Dank an alle Beitragenden und Leserinnen und Leser! agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/12/17/r...

Join us for the next FRIES seminar by Georgios Miaris (SLU) on 16 December on 'The Effect of Swedish Environmental Policy on N₂O Emissions'.
 You can attend in person at ETH Zürich or via Zoom: ethz.zoom.us/j/66418897187. Further details: frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz

Today we had a great kickoff meeting for our new ACHIEVE project, ‘Pathways to ACHIEVE Net-Zero Target for Hard-to-Abate Swiss Emissions’ led by Nathalie Casas www.empa.ch/web/s604/ach... I will lead a work package on 'Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies in Agri-Food Systems'

New paper in the Journal of Agricultural Economics🥳 Our paper ‘Protected Areas and Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation—Do Parks Increase AES Adoption?’ led by Yanbing Wang is now online Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper in the #JARE 📄 🥳 To celebrate 50 years of the Journal of #Agricultural and #Resource #Economics, we contributed our paper "Advancing Agri-Environmental Policy with Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Insights, Innovations, and Future Directions" to the latest special issue. 1/4

Falls jemand wie wir bei @agriscape.bsky.social Interesse an den Daten hinter dem KTBL-Leistungskostenrechner Pflanzenbau hat: Wir haben, basierend auf einem Skript von Christoph Pahmeyer, einen Webscraper für R gebastelt: github.com/BartoszBartk...

Thanks to Bartosz for presenting his work on landscape-scale agent based modeling of farm decisions in our AEEP-Seminar!

Der Plan für morgen. Und da Hohenheim nicht direkt um die Ecke liegt, sitze ich gerade schon in der Tram Richtung Bahnhof. Ich bin gespannt auf den Austausch mit @arndtfeuerbacher.bsky.social und @beatleresearch.bsky.social sowie weiteren Hohenheimer Kolleg:innen.

#JobOpening: We're seeking a Project Manager Research & Education (80%) for our Center @ethz.ch. A unique role blending research coordination, innovative educational design, facilitating dialogue between science, policy, and practice. 👉 Apply until 20.12.2025: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Louisa Wyss started as a doctoral student in our AECP group at ETH Zurich this week. Louisa will be working on the economics and policy of climate change mitigation in Swiss agriculture as part of our new ACHIEVE project. We are very happy to have you on board! 🥳

Our AECP paper ‘The effect of heat stress on risk and efficiency in dairy farming’ was named the ‘editor’s choice’ article in the European Review of Agricultural Economics, Issue 52/2.🥳 Kudos to Iordanis Parikoglou for leading the study. Open access: academic.oup.com/erae/article...

Join us tomorrow! Pablo Ratti (Aarhus University) will present a paper on 'Ex-ante assessment of a threshold bonus for connected set-aside in Denmark: an empirically informed agent-based modelling approach' in our FRIES Seminar Zoom ethz.zoom.us/j/6389113079... frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz

Congratulations! Eileen Ziehmann successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Low-Pesticide and Pesticide-Free Production Systems: Viability, Implications, and Consequences for Policy" at ETH Zürich last week It was a great pleasure and honor to be part of this fantastic journey. Bravo Eileen! 🥳

Join us next week! 'Pesticide-free production systems: opportunities, hurdles and policy options' 27.11., 17:15–18:45. ETH Zurich, CHN F46 With presentations by Per Kudsk, Niklas Möhring, Ilaria Pertot and Eileen Ziehmann, followed by a panel discussion worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/outreach-and...

Great presentation today by Melissa Chapman on 'Designing equitable strategies to meet global conservation and restoration targets' in the IED Seminar at ETH Zürich @milliechapman.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social Homepage Environmental Policy Lab: epl.ethz.ch

Excited to share our new paper “Beyond the Textbook” in "Applied Economics Teaching Resources" on how students learned agricultural policy with an AI tutor. If AI is here to stay in teaching, let’s focus on using it well! @aaea-economics.bsky.social www.aetrjournal.org/advance-acce...

Fantastic Agroeconet Seminar today at ETH Zürich 👏 The Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA) organized its autumn seminar Agroeconet with 8 presentations from 5 institutions and with more than 75 people attending! www.sse-sga.ch/fileadmin/re...

Positive Nachrichten via Agroscope: Das landwirtschaftliche Einkommen in der Schweiz ist im Jahr 2024 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 2,6 Prozent gestiegen. Auch über einen längeren Zeitraum betrachtet, ist es steigend. Details www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/de... @agroscope.bsky.social

‚Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands‘ Our new paper in Ecological Economics led by Nicolas Alou and with Sergei Schaub, Matthias Suter and Andreas Lüscher. Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gemeinsam verantwortlich: Bevölkerungsperspektiven auf die Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik ICYMI: Policy Brief in der Agrarforschung Schweiz zu unserem Paper geleitet von Judith Irek @agroscope.bsky.social www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/2025/10/geme... Paper in Q Open doi.org/10.1093/qope...

Call for Papers The Call for Papers for our Special Issue in Agricultural Systems on 'Wise agricultural systems: A systems approach to digital transformation' led by Carlos Parra López is now online www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

'Aligning agricultural policy: discrepancies between public and farmer priorities' New paper led by Nadja El Benni and with Jeanine Ammann, Judith Irek, Antonia Kaiser, Christian Ritzel, Yanbing Wang and Gabi Mack in Agricultural and Food Economics. Open Access: doi.org/10.1186/s401...

'Pesticide-free production systems: opportunities, hurdles and policy options' Join us 27 November, 17:15–18:45. ETH Zurich, CHN F46 The event will feature presentations by Per Kudsk, Niklas Möhring, Ilaria Pertot and Eileen Ziehmann, followed by a panel discussion @ethzwfsc.bsky.social

‚Shared responsibility: understanding the role of governments, farmers, retailers, and consumers in food system policies’ New paper in Q Open led by Judith Irek and with Jeanine Ammann, Andreia Arbenz, Gabi Mack & Nadja El Benni @agroscope.bsky.social Open Access academic.oup.com/qopen/articl...

Outstanding EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) Masterclass by Christian Stetter on 'AI for Text Analysis in Agricultural Economics' 👏 Details on Christian's research scholar.google.com/citations?us..., and on the EAAE: eaae.org

„Spannungsfeld nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz” Gestern hat die Gruppe für Agrarökonomie und Agrarpolitik der ETH Zürich einen spannenden Workshop zum Thema ausgerichtet. Es nahmen 40 Personen aus sehr verschiedenen Bereichen teil. Details siehe LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

ETH Zürich launched the Albert Einstein School of Public Policy aiming to advance education and research, and particularly the dialogue between science, public policy and society. I am honored and thrilled to serve as head of research (policy) on the board Details einstein-school.ethz.ch/en/

"Who Gets to Eat? Navigating Trade-offs in Sustainable Food Systems'. It was a great honour and pleasure to moderate a panel discussion on this topic as part of the UN-ETH Forum this morning. @ethzwfsc.bsky.social Details: un-eth.ethz.ch/un-eth-forum...

Kickoff of the UN-ETH Forum ‚Science and Policy in Turbulent Times’ at ETH Zurich un-eth.ethz.ch/un-eth-forum...

‘How Voluntary Climate Protection Measures Can Be Successful’ New policy brief in the Agrarforschung Schweiz led by Marta Tarruella www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2025/10/f... Policy brief is also available in German and French Full Paper doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Thrilled to share a new paper in the Journal of Agricultural Economics! With SRUC & iDiv, we use a labelled DCE to assess how farmer identities shape institutional preferences for privately financed grassland AECM. doi.org/10.1111/1477...

Nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz und die Rolle der digitalen Landwirtschaft Neuer Agrarpolitik Blog agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/10/07/n... Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Sustainable crop protection and the role of digital agriculture New paper in Agricultural Systems Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deadline for Abstracts 15.10.2025. 54th Annual conference Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA) May 07-08, 2026 at BFH in Zollikofen on “Economic and social resilience in the agricultural and food sector” Further details www.sse-sga.ch/en/sse-sga/m...

Join us on 20 October in Zurich for a panel discussion entitled 'Who Gets to Eat? Navigating Trade-offs in Sustainable Food Systems', co-organised by the World Food System Centre Part of UN-ETH Forum "Science and Policy in Turbulent Times" Details & registration un-eth.ethz.ch/un-eth-forum...

Last week, we welcomed Pablo Ratti (Aarhus University @au.dk) to our Agricultural Economics and Policy group at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist! 🎉 He’ll be collaborating with us on agent-based modeling for assessing agri-environmental policy. Excited to have you on board, Pablo! 🥳

Congratulations🥳! Our colleague Jonas Schmitt has received the GEWISOLA Prize from the German Society for Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture for his outstanding PhD thesis 👏 Details on the award www.gewisola.de/en/awards More information in LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

Really, really happy to share this new publication by Malin Gütschow and myself on farmers’ identity in the context of multifunctionality 🚜🌾🪲🐦 link.springer.com/article/10.1... A 🧵

🌱🐦 Irish corncrake numbers are slowly recovering thanks to the Corncrake LIFE project @ec.europa.eu GreeNet’s Ireland case study is helping shape strategies to keep this success going beyond LIFE. 🌍✨ #Biodiversity #Ireland #Corncrake @biodiversa.eu www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Join the next FRIES webinar September 30: 'Tools and Concepts for Grassland Conservation Policies' @greenet-project.bsky.social greenet.boku.ac.at/results/tool... The webinar also features AECP Group presentations by Viviane Fahrni & @robehube.bsky.social Via Zoom us06web.zoom.us/j/8671812123...

A study replicating our 2022 Food Policy paper (Bucheli et al., 2022) was recently published in GJAE (Schmidt et al. 2025) It's great that our discipline is starting to engage more strongly in replication efforts Replication study doi.org/10.52825/gja... Original paper doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

The ÖGA conference 2025, hosted by Hermine Mitter @uni-graz.at started with excellent key-notes by Petr Havlik @iiasa.ac.at , Monika Hartmann @unibonn.bsky.social , and Sophie Helaine @ec.europa.eu More to see tomorrow Friday! More information: oega.boku.ac.at/tagungen/oeg...

This seminar addresses scientists and experts interested in maintaining European grassland - hosting unique biodiversity, ecosystem services and cultural values. @greenet-project.bsky.social is a @biodiversa.eu project led by @bab.gv.at and 🇦🇹 partners from @bokuvienna.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at

Workshop 'Spannungsfeld nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz' 29 Oktober 2025, 10:00 – 12:30, mit IP Suisse und der Swiss Future Farm. Teil des ETH Food Day 2025 worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/outreach-and... Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, eine Anmeldung ist jedoch erforderlich: www.eventbrite.ch/e/spannungsf...

Interested in agri-environmental policy and monitoring innovations for grasslands in Europe? Please join our GreeNet seminar on 30.09. online to learn more about our project results from @robehube.bsky.social et al. Details below 👇 and on the BAB website: bab.gv.at/index.php?op...