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Food and
Resource Economics

Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heckelei

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Dr. Heinz-Peter Witzke E-Mail: peter.witzke@eurocare-bonn.de Tel.: +49-228-732916; Fax: +49-228-734693 (Private adress: Buntspechtweg 22, 53123 Bonn, Germany) Detailed CV (pdf)

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Education:

1987	Diploma in agricultural sciences, Bonn University
1992	Doctorate in agricultural economics, Bonn University

Employments:

Since 2001	Consultant with EuroCARE Bonn
9/00 - 8/01	Interim professor at the Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy
1995 - 2000	Assistant professor ("Hochschulassistent") at the Institute of Agricultural Policy
3/94 - 2/95	Visiting scholar at the Dep. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
1992 - 1995	Assistant professor ("Hochschulassistent") at the Institute of Agricultural Policy
1987 - 1992	Research assistant at the Institute of Agricultural Policy

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Memberships:

• American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)
• German association of agricultural economics (GeWiSoLa)
• Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)

Fields of work:

• Large scale agricultural sector modeling with calibration techniques
• Agricultural and environmental policy
• Structural change in agriculture

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Selected Publications

• Witzke, H.P., Kreins, P., Gömann, H. (2004): Erwartbare Konsequenzen einer Dezentralisierung im Bereich der Agrarpolitik, Forschungs- und Sitzungsberichte der ARL, in: G. Färber (eds.), Räumliche Aspekte des föderativen Systems, Hannover.
• Adenäuer, M., Louhichi, K., Frahan, B. de, Witzke, H.P. (2004): Impacts of the "Everything but Arms" initiative on the EU sugar sub-sector, Paper at the International Conference on Policy Modelling (EcoMod2004), June 30 - July 2, Paris.
• Witzke, H.P., Kuhn, A. (2004): Assessing Reform Options for the Sugar Common Market Organisation - Quantitative Analyses with Interlinked Models, in: J. Zeddies, S. Dabbert, W. Großkopf, F. Heidhues (eds.), Perspektiven in der Landnutzung - Regionen, Landschaften, Betriebe - Entscheidungsträger und Instrumente, Münster-Hiltrup: Landwirtschaftsverlag.
• Witzke, H.P. (2003): Impact Analysis of the European Commission’s proposal under the Mid-Term Review of the CAP using the CAPSIM model, Chapter VI, in: European Commission, DG Agriculture (eds.), Mid Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy, July 2002 Proposals, Impact Analyses, Brussels (http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/publi/reports/mtrimpact/rep_en.pdf), pp. 171-193.
• Holm-Müller, K., Witzke, H.P. (2002): Das moderne Konzept der internen Subventionierung als Kriterium zur Identifizierung von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen bei europäischen Agrarumweltmaßnahmen, Agrarwirtschaft (51), pp. 231-238.
• Witzke, H.P., Heckelei, T. (2002): EU Sugar Policy Reform: Quota Reduction and Devaluation, Paper at the AAEA meeting on Juli 28-31, Long Beach, US.
• Witzke, H.P., Urfei, G. (2001): Willingness to Pay for Environmental Protection: Coping with the Regional Dimension, Regional Studies (35), pp. 207-214.
• Witzke, H.P., Heckelei, T. (1998): Betrieblicher Strukturwandel unter dem Einfluß ökonomischer Rahmenbedingungen, Schriften der GeWiSoLa (34), in: A. Heißenhuber, H. Hoffmann, W. von Urff (eds.), Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft in einer erweiterten EU, Münster-Hiltrup: Landwirtschaftsverlag, pp. 279- 287.
• Witzke, H.P. (1997): Amending Profit Function Models with Farm Structure Information, Paper on the XXIIIth IAAE Congress, August 10-16, Sacramento.
• Witzke, H.P., Heckelei, T. (1997): Adjustment cost and partial adjustment models for German agriculture, Schriften der GeWiSoLa (33), in: S. Bauer, R. Herrmann, F. Kuhlmann (eds.), Märkte der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft, Münster-Hiltrup: Landwirtschaftsverlag, pp. 125-137.
• Henrichsmeyer, W., Witzke, H.P. (1996): Perspectives for Future EU Common Agricultural Policy, DIW Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (65,3), Schwerpunktheft Europäische Integration, pp. 354-368.
• Witzke, H.P. (1994): Intersektorale Einkommensvergleiche und ihre Interpretation, Agrarwirtschaft (43), pp. 115-124.
• Henrichsmeyer, W., Witzke, H.P., Heckelei, T. (1994): Agrarpolitik, Band 2, Bewertung und Willensbildung, Stuttgart.
• Witzke, H.P. (1993): Mikrotheorie in der Agrarsektoranalyse - Neoklassischer Standard, Konflikte mit der Realität und Versöhnungsversuche mit Komplikationen, Berlin.
• Henrichsmeyer, W., Witzke, H.P. (1991): Agrarpolitik, Band 1, Agrarökonomische Grundlagen, Stuttgart.

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Recent publications

• Heterogeneous impacts of neighbouring farm size on the decision to exit: evidence from Brittany, Saint-Cyr, L. D. F., Storm, H., Heckelei, T., Piet, L. (2018): European Review of Agricultural Economics jby029: pp. 1-30,
• Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy Hasegawa, T., Fujimori, S., Havlik, P., Valin, H., Bodirsky, B. L., Doelman, J. C., Fellmann, T., Kyle, P., Koopman, J. F. L., Lotze-Campen, H., Mason-D Croz, D., Ochi, Y., Pèrez Dominguez, I., Stehfest, E., Sulser, T. B., Tabeau, A., Takahashi, K., Takakura, J. y., van Meijl, H., van Zeist, W.-J., Wiebe, K., Witzke, H.-P. (2018):
  Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy, Nature Climate Change 8: 699-703.
• Are maize marketers averse to quality loss in supplies? A case study from Ghana Bassey, N. E., Kuhn, A., Storm, H. (2018):
  "Are maize marketers averse to quality loss in supplies? A case study from Ghana", Agricultural Economics
• Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia Minten, B., Dereje, M., Engida, E., Tamru, S. (2018):
  "Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia", World Development 101: 119-132
• Modelling heterogeneous firms and non-tariff measures in free trade agreements using Computable General Equilibrium Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2018):
  "Modelling heterogeneous firms and non-tariff measures in free trade agreements using Computable General Equilibrium", Economic Modelling
• Reducing omitted-variable bias in spatial-interaction models by considering multiple neighbourhoods Storm, H., Heckelei, T. (2018):
  "Reducing omitted-variable bias in spatial-interaction models by considering multiple neighbourhoods", Spatial Economic Analysis
• 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