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Best presentation and best poster awards at the annual conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology went to AECP contributions. Congratulations to Karin Späti et al. for the awarded poster presentation on ‘Adoption of variable rate technologies: A choice experiment in Switzerland’ and Möhring et al. for the awarded paper presentation on ‘Climate Change and Pesticide Use - Extreme heat effects on insecticide use in potatoes’

An Interview with Robert Finger on agricultural policy appeared at Schweizer Bauer (in German)

Hervé Dakpo published a new R package sfaR: Stochastic Frontier Analysis using R

A new paper by Cordial Kreft et al. on social network data on Swiss farmers was published in Data in Brief

Robert Finger was interviewed for Echo der Zeit on agricultural policy (in German)

The AECP Project DivserGrass was covered in ‘Die Grüne’ by Robert Finger and Nina Buchmann (In German)

The annual conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA) takes place 18 and 19 March 2021, online, via Zoom. The topic is agriculture in the context of climate change. Registration required, no fees.

New Blog Post on crop insurance solutions based on satellite data by Willemijn Vroege et al (in German)

New Blog Post on Digital Agricultural Policy by Melf-Hinrich Ehlers et al. (in German)

New Blog Post on Doctoral Thesis of Sergei Schaub on an economic analysis of grassland, biodiversity and weather extremes (in German)