The main objective of the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group is to improve the understanding of interactions between policies and production and risk management decisions in the agricultural and food sector.
The Agricultural Economics and Policy Group belongs to the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC) and is also part of the Department of Environmental System Science (D-USYS). We are affiliated with the Institute for Environmental Decisions ( IED ) and associated member at the Institute for Agricultural Sciences (IAS) as well as the World Food System Center. (WFSC)
This week Julia Kunkel from UFZ Leipzig joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist. Julia is working with us, among others, on the InsuranceGrass project https://insurancegrass.wordpress.com/. We are happy to have her on board!🥳
Louisa Wyss joins AECP Group
This week Louisa Wyss joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a research intern. Louisa will be working on agricultural biodiversity policy and farmer behavior. We are happy to have you on board!🥳
A new course for PhD students on Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Agriculture: Theory and Applications is offered this year by Robert Finger and Oliver Musshoff
The program of the 53th Annual conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA) on «Goal Conflicts & Incentive Structures in Agricultural and Food Policies», 8. - 9. May 2025 at the Federal Office for Agriculture, Bern, Switzerland is now online
