Tolle Exkursion zum Thema Agrarpolitik mit Studierenden der ETH Zürich heute am Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft
Vielen Dank an Jean-Marc Chappuis und Thomas Meier (BLW) und Nationalrätin Katja Riem (SVP) für die sehr guten Inputs und die anregende Diskussion!
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‘Erlauben uns digitale Technologien in Zukunft auf Pflanzenschutzmittel zu verzichten?’ (Nein, aber…)
Ich freue mich über die Einladung der Technischen Gesellschaft Zürich zu einem Vortrag am 23. März 2026 (18:15-19:30 ETH HG D1.1) www.tgz-net.ch
Hintergrundpaper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
Save the Date and join us on April 01!
David Wuepper will come to ETH Zürich and speak on 'Bending the Curve of Agricultural Land Degradation', as part of the new Einstein Colloquium on Science and Policy.
1 April, 12.15-13.15
On site & via zoom. Details einstein-school.ethz.ch/en/news/coll...
On my way to the University of Bonn. I am looking forward to the opportunity to give a keynote speech on 'Digital Innovations for Better Agricultural Policies', as well as to the discussions at the Model2Adapt workshop organised by Anna Cord and Frank Wätzold.
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On my way to Müncheberg and the ZALF (the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) where I serve on the Scientific Advisory Board.
Looking forward learning from fascinating ongoing work and exciting plans for the future.
@zalf.bsky.social www.zalf.de/en/Pages/ZAL...
Today, Chiara Boeri from Wageningen University joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist for the coming 3 months.
Chiara is working with us, among others, on economics and adoption stages of strip cropping systems.
We are very happy to have you on board!🥳
What an amazing and inspiring day yesterday celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group at ETH Zurich with current and former group members and friends of the group 🤩
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
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Today, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group at ETH Zurich.
Over 70 current and former group members and friends of the group are joining us
We look forward to an exciting program featuring great speakers and panellists from academia and industry🥳
Les parcs naturels régionaux, moteurs des mesures en faveur de la biodiversité
Nouvel article de blog, Lead: Yanbing Wang
agrarpolitik-blog.com/2026/02/26/l...
Etude dans le Journal of Agricultural Economics
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'Von Smart Farming zu Wise Agricultural Systems: Ansätze für eine systemorientierte nachhaltige digitale Transformation in der Landwirtschaft'
Neuer Agrarpolitik Blog mit Carlos Parra-López und weiteren
agrarpolitik-blog.com/2026/02/24/v...
Paper in Agricultural Systems: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
‚Regionale Naturpärke in der Schweiz: gut für biodiversitätsfördernde Direktzahlungsprogramme‘
Neuer Policy Brief in der Agrarforschung Schweiz, Lead Yanbing Wang
www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/2026/02/regi...
Paper im Journal of Agricultural Economics
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Elias Kapitany @univie.ac.at confirms the importance of complementing field with landscape scale studies and trends to lose more specialised species in grassland landscapes. Important knowledge gain supported by @biodiversa.eu for our 🇦🇹 case study in www.nationalparkneusiedlersee.at.
Join us! Sabine Liebenehm will present a paper in our FRIES Seminar on 'Poly-crises in Ethiopia: The Impact of Armed Conflicts and Adverse Weather Shocks on Household Food Security'
February 18, 16:00-17:00, at ETH & zoom ethz.zoom.us/j/6779082876...
More on FRIES frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz
New paper on "Risk preferences and other (ignored) behavioral factors in fertilizer management decisions" with Laura Moritz, Riccardo Spada, @jensrommel.bsky.social, and Simone Cerroni
paper (english) 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
blog (italian) 👉 agrarpolitik-blog.com/2026/02/12/i...
After five exciting and enriching years, I stepped down as the chair of the World Food Systems Center at ETH Zurich. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to research, teaching, and dialogue on sustainable food systems.
Thank you & all the best!
worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/news/wfsc-ne...
‘Increasing applied pesticide toxicity trends counteract the global reduction target to safeguard biodiversity’
Very relevant new study by Jakob Wolfram and coauthors in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌱✨ Publication alert! ✨🌱
We’re excited to share our latest article from the @biodiversa.eu GreeNet project in the journal Landscape Ecology.
🔗 Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Congratulations to Elias Kapitány, Thomas Wrbka & Stefan Dullinger from @univie.ac.at for a great paper!
The Agricultural Economics and Policy Group at ETH Zurich is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
In a new blog post (in German), we provide an overview of our teaching and thesis supervision over the past ten years agrarpolitik-blog.com/2026/02/04/1...
Bruno Studer argues that strict NGT laws favor big corporations by creating high entry barriers. To keep Swiss breeding local and innovative, we need science-based regulation, not more hurdles. 🌾🚫 Thank you, "Schweizer Bauer", for the comprehensive interview! 👇
#PlantSciences #NGT
We had a great and inspiring 7th Swiss PhD Seminar in Agricultural Economics today, hosted by ETH Zurich.
With contributions by Agroscope, the University of Geneva, ETH and FiBL.
Realized via the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology: www.sse-sga.ch/en/sse-sga/n...
'Wo Landwirte und Bevölkerung die gleichen Ziele haben'
Artikel zu unserer Studie (lead Nadja El Benni, Agroscope) im Schweizer Bauer www.schweizerbauer.ch/artikel/poli...
Paper in Agricultural and Food Economics link.springer.com/article/10.1...
After serving as the Chair of the ETH Domain Open Research Data (ORD) Program Steering Committee for three years, I stepped down this month.
Details on the Program open-research-data-portal.ch.
LinkedIn Post www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
'Lenkungsabgaben auf landwirtschaftliche Inputs - Was Beispiele aus Europa uns lehren'
Neuer (kurzer) Artikel in Ökologie & Landbau www.oekom.de/ausgabe/was-...
Freier Zugang via www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/pub...
Hintergundpaper zum Thema doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Today, ETH Zurich launched the FAIR Coalition, which aims to support the university-wide adoption of the FAIR Principles
Moreover, a FAIR charter and funding opportunities were introduced
I am pleased to be serving on the Board of this initiative
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We had a very insightful and fascinating visit to Swissmill today. It is the largest mill in Switzerland, located in the centre of the city of Zurich.
Thank you for hosting us. (No pictures were taken inside due to privacy concerns.)
www.swissmill.ch/kornmagazin
Ich freue mich heute beim Event «Welche Landwirtschaft will die Schweiz?» einen Vortrag halten zu dürfen, und vor allem auf die Diskussion mit Studierenden sowie mit Markus Ritter und Michele Salvi zum Thema Schweizer Agrarpolitik
my.studienstiftung.ch/de/veranstal...
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Excellent overview of the strength of Europe's farm lobby in this Politico article by Bartosz Brzezinski today www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Soil biodiversity is a key driver of ecosystem function, including nutrient cycling, organic-matter decomposition, plant productivity, climate regulation and pathogen control (with subsequent effects on animal, human and plant health). A foundational review in 2014 described the functional role of soil biodiversity in ecosystems, but our understanding of the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has deepened over the past decade. In this Review, we highlight progress in the field, discuss the approaches and methodological advances that have enabled this progress, and identify emerging research questions. Although the spatiotemporal patterns and community dynamics of soil communities are becoming well understood, topics with important knowledge gaps include the climate feedback effects of soils, the ecology of urban soils and the development of soil health indicators. Global collaborative networks, linking existing databases, and monitoring soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are important ways to address these knowledge gaps. By considering the relationships between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning we can connect small-scale interactions among plants, microorganisms and animals to ecosystem services and planetary sustainability.
New paper with many smart people, led by Nico Eisenhauer & Marie Sünemann @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, surveying the state of literature on the effects of soil biodiversity on ecosystem functioning
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New in Ecological Economics !
Link for "A meta-analysis on the productive value of crop biodiversity" (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, with B. Largier):
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