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...

🌱 Webinar: Tools and Concepts for Grassland Conservation Policies 📅 30 Sept 2025 🕑 14:00–15:30 (90 min) 🔗 Zoom: greenet.boku.ac.at/results/tool... Part of the FRIES Seminar Series 👉 frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz @biodiversa.eu

Excited to contribute to the webinar “Tools and Concepts for Grassland Conservation Policies” (FRIES Seminar Series, 30 Sept). I’ll present insights from our review on collective agri-environmental schemes. 👉 Details & Zoom: greenet.boku.ac.at/results/tool...

Webinar ‘Towards climate-resilient grassland systems: the role of formal, natural and social insurance’ 24.09.2025, 90 Minutes: 14.00-15.30. Via Zoom ethz.zoom.us/j/2064408750 Part of the FRIES Seminar Series frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz

Members of our GreeNet research project came together at the European Association of Agricultural Economists Congress 2025 🌱. Great exchange, inspiring ideas, and new collaborations ahead! #Greenet #EAAE2025 #Sustainability @mschoenhart.bsky.social, @biodiversa.eu

Zeitgerecht zum Auftakt des nächsten Reformprozesses legt der profunde Kenner und Analyst @sebastianlakner.bsky.social , Prof. für Agrarökonomie der Universität Rostock, ein umfassendes Werk zur Entwicklung der #GAP vor. Hilfreich, um aus Fehlern der Vergangenheit zu lernen.

'Spatial arrangement of action-oriented versus hybrid agri-environmental schemes: implications for the optimisation of grassland ecosystem services' ICYMI: New paper in Agricultural Systems led by Solen Le Clec'h & @valentinecology.bsky.social w @robehube.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

It was a great honor and pleasure to give today a keynote at the 15th Congress of the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics on “Digital Innovations in Agriculture: A Sustainability and Production Economics Perspective” Details #XVCongresoAEEA economiaagroalimentaria.es/en/xv-congre...

Happy to see our new paper out! In short: "Spatial (miss)matches of agri-environmental schemes and implications for optimization" Find the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... Thanks to Solen and @robertfinger.bsky.social @robehube.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @usyseth.bsky.social

New paper out, where we attempted to identify clusters of behaviourally similar* agri-environmental practices: www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.ph... * similar in terms of behaviourally relevant, adoption-driving factors

Best Conference Paper Award at the 18th EAAE Congress 🥳 for our paper 'Large Language Model Analysis Reveals Key Reasons Behind Massive Farmer Protests in Europe' led by Christian Stetter, and with Eva-Marie Meemken and Andrea Fürholz. Kudos Christian!! @christianstetter.bsky.social

‘Agricultura e politica: Quant ferma è la politica agrara en Svizra?’ Interview on the role of agriculture in the Swiss policy landscape in Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha (RTR) (in Rumantsch) www.rtr.ch/novitads/svi...

🌱 News from #EAAE2025 in Bonn! Viviane Fahrni presented our choice experiment results on farmers’ willingness to participate in collective agri-environmental schemes across six European regions. Paper with @monikasuskevics.bsky.social, @mschoenhart.bsky.social, @robehube.bsky.social and others.

Congratulations to our chair @robertfinger.bsky.social for receiving the European Association of Agricultural Economists' (EAAE) Fellowship Award 👏

Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists🥳 I am beyond words and incredibly honored to receive the European Association of Agricultural Economists' (EAAE) Fellowship Award, the highest recognition in European agricultural economics. eaae.org/ItemText.asp...

Great session on Agricultural Economics & Open Science today at the 18th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, led by Carola Grebitus and Julia Höhler! With contributions by Jutta Roosen, Silke Hüttel, Romain Espinosa and Eleni Toli doi.org/10.1093/qope...

Excellent presentation by Robert Huber on a paper on ‘The Role of Behavioral and Social Factors in Agent-Based Models for Agricultural Policy Evaluations’ at the 18th EAAE Congress in a great session on ‘Behavioural Experimental Methods & Modelling’ @robehube.bsky.social

Outstanding and important keynote by Anna Dreber on '(Predicting) Replication Outcomes and Generalizability' at the XVIII EAAE Congress sites.google.com/site/annadre... www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/eaaecongress...

Great Opening Session of the 18th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), hosted by the University of Bonn. With welcoming addresses and keynotes by Monica Hartmann, Jose Gill, and Elizabeth Robinson and others Details congress www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/eaaecongress...

‚Understanding Farmer Behaviour for Successful Climate Change Mitigation in Voluntary Initiatives’ New paper in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics led by Marta Tarruella with @robehube.bsky.social, N El Benni, G Mack, D Schäfer onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fernerkundungstechnologien können herbizidfreie Produktionssysteme ökonomisch attraktiver machen und deren Umweltfussabdruck senken Neuer Agrarpolitik Blog. Lead Eileen Ziehmann & mit @robehube.bsky.social agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/08/13/f... Paper im Journal of Agr Econ doi.org/10.1111/1477...

I am deeply honored to be invited as keynote speaker at the 15th Congress of the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics My keynote address is titled “Digital Innovations in Agriculture: A Sustainability and Production Economics Perspective” Details economiaagroalimentaria.es/en/xv-congre...

Paolo Brignoli joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher this week. His research focuses on exploring how machine learning and artificial intelligence can support agricultural policy making and advance research in agricultural economics. We are excited to have you on board🥳

‘Policies to Transform the Agricultural and Food Systems‘ I am looking forward to giving a talk and facilitating group work at the World Food System Center Summer School at ETH Zurich this week Details on the WFSC and the summer school worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/education/su... @ethzwfsc.bsky.social

‚Pathways for biodiversity enhancement in German agricultural landscapes‘ New paper in People and Nature led by Christian Sponagel & Amybeth Thompson with many coauthors, e.g. @sebastianlakner.bsky.social @naturealexk.bsky.social Open Access besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

👇 This is an excellent opportunity to join this fantastic group led by our great new colleague Prof. Melissa Chapman @milliechapman.bsky.social at the USYS Department @usyseth.bsky.social ofETH Zürich @ethz.ch as doctoral student or postdoc!