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Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-
Universität Bonn

Institute for
Food and
Resource Economics

Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heckelei

See also

• Projects with External Funds
  since 2004
• Current Dissertation Projects
• Finalized Dissertations
• Quantitative Economic Simulation Tools

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• Projects with External Funds
  before 2004
• Research Areas until 2002

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Faculty of Agriculture

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Research focus

The chair for economic and agricultural policy focuses its research on analyzing agricultural and food policies. Policies under consideration cover traditional agricultural policy (income support, trade policies and agri-environmental programs) but also more recent policy issues related to agriculture and food as indicated in the core research lines below. Methodologically, our team develops and applies different economic simulation models and econometric techniques.

Core research lines

Methodologies for quantitative policy impact assessment

Policy impact assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy and related policy fields

Analysis of impacts of climate change, demographic trends and other drivers on agriculture in Africa

Analysis of agricultural and food markets and trade policies

Research on the dairy sector, embedded in the Center of Integrated Dairy Research at our faculty

Analysis of structural change and dynamic adjustments in agriculture

Long term developments in agricultural and food markets including climate change impacts

Cooperations

The chair links via various grant funded projects to the German and European research area, sponsored inter alia by the German Science Foundation, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and the Research Framework programs of the EU Commission. A close co-operation with EUROCARE, a consulting specialising in quantitative policy impact analysis, supports the access of graduate students and post docs to applied research projects, and helps transfering our scientific findings to stakeholders.

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Last Updated:Thursday, November 27, 2014

News

Courses summer term 2018

ILR Seminar Series

Economic and Agricultural Policy Group Contributions to 30^th ICAE Conference 2018, Vancouver

Theodor-Brinkmann-Award 2017 for Dr. Sebastian Rasch

Vacancies

Recent publications

• Does the current trade liberalization agenda contribute to greenhouse gas emission mitigation in agriculture? Himics, M., Fellmann, T., Barreiro-Hurle, J., Witzke, H.-P., Perez Dominguez, I., Jansson, T., Weiss, F.(2018:
  "Does the current trade liberalization agenda contribute to greenhouse gas emission mitigation in agriculture?", Food Policy article in press
• Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks Fellmann, T., Witzke, H.-P., Weiss, F., van Doorslaer, B., Dusan, D., Huck, I., Salputra, G., Jansson, T., Leip, A. (2018:
  "Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks", Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 23(3), pp 451-468
• Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: The vision of the SUSFANS project Rutten, M., Achterbosch, T., de Boer, I., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Geleijnse, M., Havlik, P., Heckelei, T., Ingram, J. S., Leip, A., Marette, S., van Meijl, H., Soler, L. -G., Swinnen, J. F., van't Veer, P., Vervoort, J., Zimmermann, A., Zimmermann, K. and Zurek, M. (2018):
  "Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: The vision of the SUSFANS project", Agricultural Systems 163, pp.45-57
• Climate change impacts on crop yields, land use and environment in response to crop sowing dates and thermal time requirements Zimmermann, A., Webber, H., Zhao, G., Ewert, F., Kros, H., Wolf, J., Britz, W. and de Vries, W. (2017):
  "Climate change impacts on crop yields, land use and environment in response to crop sowing dates and thermal time requirements", Agricultural Systems 157, p. 81-92
• Effect of off-farm income on smallholder commercialization: panel evidence from rural households in Ethiopia Woldeyohanes, T. B., Heckelei, T. and Surry, Y. (2017):
  "Effect of off-farm income on smallholder commercialization: panel evidence from rural households in Ethiopia", Agricultural Economics 48(2), p. 207-218
• Multi-scale resilience of a communal rangeland system in South Africa Rasch, S., Heckelei, T., Storm, H., Oomen, R. and Naumann, C.(2017):
  "Multi-scale resilience of a communal rangeland system in South Africa", Ecological Economics 131, p. 129-138
• Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: lessons from a multidisciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system Linstädter, A., Kuhn, A., Naumann, C., Rasch, S., Sandhage-Hofmann, A., Amelung, W., Jordaan, J., Du Preez, C. and Bollig, M.(2016):
  "Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: lessons from a multidisciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system", Ecology and Society 23(3)
• Entry deterring effects of contractual relations in the dairy processing sector Zavelberg, Y., Heckelei, T. and Wieck, C.(2016):
  "Entry deterring effects of contractual relations in the dairy processing sector approach ", Bio-based and Applied Economics 5(1), p. 83-98