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Solen Le Clec’h reports on our findings about ecosystem services in grasslands of different intensities (in French) and Robert Huber summarizes a new study on the value of cultural ecosystem services from grassland (in German).

We quantify ecosystem services in grassland of different intensities in the Canton of Solothurn: Le Clec'h S., Finger R., Buchmann N., Gosal A.S., Hörtnagl L., Huguenin O., Jeanneret P., Lüscher A., Schneider M.K., Huber R. 2019. Assessment of spatial variability of multiple ecosystem services in grasslands of different intensities. Journal of Environmental Management. Volume 251

We congratulate Solen LeClec'h to her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Environmental Systems Analysis Group at Wageningen University and Research! Solen has started her new position in September 2019.  

We analyzed the willingness to pay for cultural ecosystem services from grasslands in a meta-study: Huber R. & Finger R. Journal of Agricultural Economics: doi

Best Presentation Award at 171^st EAAE Seminar for Willemijn Vroege

The Agroeconet Colloqium takes place on October 29, 2019, with talsk by Tobias Dalhaus and Niklas Möhring

An interview with Robert Finger on subsidies on agricultural insurances appeared in the NZZ

An interview with Robert Finger on pesticide measurement and pesticide taxes was published in an article at SRF

Robert Finger was interviewed on pesticide policies at SRF (ECO)

In this project we will investigate determinants and barriers for farmers’ adoption of pesticide free wheat production in Switzerland.