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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 1d

Nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz und die Rolle der digitalen Landwirtschaft

Neuer Agrarpolitik Blog
agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/10/07/n...

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 2d

Sustainable crop protection and the role of digital agriculture

New paper in Agricultural Systems

Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 5d

Deadline for Abstracts 15.10.2025.

54th Annual conference Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA) May 07-08, 2026 at BFH in Zollikofen on “Economic and social resilience in the agricultural and food sector”

Further details www.sse-sga.ch/en/sse-sga/m...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 4d

Join us on 20 October in Zurich for a panel discussion entitled 'Who Gets to Eat? Navigating Trade-offs in Sustainable Food Systems', co-organised by the World Food System Centre

Part of UN-ETH Forum "Science and Policy in Turbulent Times"

Details & registration un-eth.ethz.ch/un-eth-forum...

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Robert Huber @robehube.bsky.social · 6d

Last week, we welcomed Pablo Ratti (Aarhus University @au.dk) to our Agricultural Economics and Policy group at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist! 🎉 He’ll be collaborating with us on agent-based modeling for assessing agri-environmental policy. Excited to have you on board, Pablo! 🥳

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations🥳! Our colleague Jonas Schmitt has received the GEWISOLA Prize from the German Society for Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture for his outstanding PhD thesis 👏

Details on the award www.gewisola.de/en/awards

More information in LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 8d

Really, really happy to share this new publication by Malin Gütschow and myself on farmers’ identity in the context of multifunctionality 🚜🌾🪲🐦

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Farmers (are expected to) fulfil diverse economic, environmental, and social roles or functions. Yet the relative importance of these functions remains contested both within farming communities and in the broader society. Understanding how farmers prioritize these different functions as a reflection of their role identity is crucial, given the increasing recognition of the importance of identity as a determinant of farmer behaviour. We frame this aspect of farmer identity in terms of multifunctionality, a common lens for analysing the performance of agriculture relative to societal demands. However, while this concept is often used with an ecological focus, our study builds on a broader interpretation that encompasses the full range of social, cultural, economic, and ecological functions. Furthermore, we focus on the roles farmers themselves would like to play when looking 10 to 20 years into the future. We apply Q methodology to see how farmers from Eastern Germany prioritize among 71 societal functions. We use the Q sorts and qualitative data to derive and characterize a typology of three narrative perspectives. The results demonstrate the breadth and heterogeneity of farmers' role identity, and therefore the need to go beyond a narrow focus on ecological roles or functions.

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GreeNet Project @greenet-project.bsky.social · 9d

🌱🐦 Irish corncrake numbers are slowly recovering thanks to the Corncrake LIFE project @ec.europa.eu

GreeNet’s Ireland case study is helping shape strategies to keep this success going beyond LIFE. 🌍✨

#Biodiversity #Ireland #Corncrake

@biodiversa.eu
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Surge in Irish corncrake numbers and in breeding territories, survey shows

Farming community key to success in recovery of bird threatened with local extinction

www.irishtimes.com

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 10d

Join the next FRIES webinar September 30: 'Tools and Concepts for Grassland Conservation Policies' @greenet-project.bsky.social

greenet.boku.ac.at/results/tool...

The webinar also features AECP Group presentations by Viviane Fahrni & @robehube.bsky.social

Via Zoom us06web.zoom.us/j/8671812123...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 15d

A study replicating our 2022 Food Policy paper (Bucheli et al., 2022) was recently published in GJAE (Schmidt et al. 2025)

It's great that our discipline is starting to engage more strongly in replication efforts

Replication study doi.org/10.52825/gja...

Original paper doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

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Martin Schönhart @mschoenhart.bsky.social · 20d

The ÖGA conference 2025, hosted by Hermine Mitter @uni-graz.at started with excellent key-notes by Petr Havlik @iiasa.ac.at , Monika Hartmann @unibonn.bsky.social , and Sophie Helaine @ec.europa.eu

More to see tomorrow Friday!

More information: oega.boku.ac.at/tagungen/oeg...

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Martin Schönhart @mschoenhart.bsky.social · 22d

This seminar addresses scientists and experts interested in maintaining European grassland - hosting unique biodiversity, ecosystem services and cultural values.

@greenet-project.bsky.social is a @biodiversa.eu project led by @bab.gv.at and 🇦🇹 partners from @bokuvienna.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at

Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft und Bergbauernfragen @bab.gv.at · 23d

Interested in agri-environmental policy and monitoring innovations for grasslands in Europe?

Please join our GreeNet seminar on 30.09. online to learn more about our project results from @robehube.bsky.social et al.

Details below 👇 and on the BAB website: bab.gv.at/index.php?op...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 22d

Workshop 'Spannungsfeld nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz'

29 Oktober 2025, 10:00 – 12:30, mit IP Suisse und der Swiss Future Farm.

Teil des ETH Food Day 2025 worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/outreach-and...

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, eine Anmeldung ist jedoch erforderlich: www.eventbrite.ch/e/spannungsf...

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Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft und Bergbauernfragen @bab.gv.at · 23d

Interested in agri-environmental policy and monitoring innovations for grasslands in Europe?

Please join our GreeNet seminar on 30.09. online to learn more about our project results from @robehube.bsky.social et al.

Details below 👇 and on the BAB website: bab.gv.at/index.php?op...

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GreeNet Project @greenet-project.bsky.social · 23d

🌱 Webinar: Tools and Concepts for Grassland Conservation Policies
📅 30 Sept 2025
🕑 14:00–15:30 (90 min)
🔗 Zoom: greenet.boku.ac.at/results/tool...

Part of the FRIES Seminar Series 👉 frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz

@biodiversa.eu

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Robert Huber @robehube.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to contribute to the webinar “Tools and Concepts for Grassland Conservation Policies” (FRIES Seminar Series, 30 Sept).

I’ll present insights from our review on collective agri-environmental schemes.

👉 Details & Zoom: greenet.boku.ac.at/results/tool...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 24d

Webinar ‘Towards climate-resilient grassland systems: the role of formal, natural and social insurance’

24.09.2025, 90 Minutes: 14.00-15.30. Via Zoom ethz.zoom.us/j/2064408750

Part of the FRIES Seminar Series frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz

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GreeNet Project @greenet-project.bsky.social · 26d

Members of our GreeNet research project came together at the European Association of Agricultural Economists Congress 2025 🌱.
Great exchange, inspiring ideas, and new collaborations ahead! #Greenet #EAAE2025 #Sustainability

@mschoenhart.bsky.social, @biodiversa.eu

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Martin Schönhart @mschoenhart.bsky.social · 27d

Zeitgerecht zum Auftakt des nächsten Reformprozesses legt der profunde Kenner und Analyst @sebastianlakner.bsky.social , Prof. für Agrarökonomie der Universität Rostock, ein umfassendes Werk zur Entwicklung der #GAP vor. Hilfreich, um aus Fehlern der Vergangenheit zu lernen.

Sebastian Lakner🇺🇦 @sebastianlakner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Seit letzter Woche ist mein neues Lehrbuch „Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der EU - Vergangenheit, Reformen und Gegenwart“ bei Springer zum Download verfügbar.

400 Seiten Geschichte, Statistiken u Analyse der GAP bis heute sind hoffentlich ihre 40 € im Print wert 😊

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der EU

Das Buch untersucht die Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU (GAP) erstmals aus einer historischen, wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen und politischen Perspektive.

link.springer.com

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 28d

'Spatial arrangement of action-oriented versus hybrid agri-environmental schemes: implications for the optimisation of grassland ecosystem services'

ICYMI: New paper in Agricultural Systems led by Solen Le Clec'h & @valentinecology.bsky.social w @robehube.bsky.social et al

doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was a great honor and pleasure to give today a keynote at the 15th Congress of the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics on “Digital Innovations in Agriculture: A Sustainability and Production Economics Perspective”

Details #XVCongresoAEEA economiaagroalimentaria.es/en/xv-congre...

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Valentin Klaus - Ruhr University Bochum @valentinecology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy to see our new paper out! In short:

"Spatial (miss)matches of agri-environmental schemes and implications for optimization"

Find the open-access paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Thanks to Solen and @robertfinger.bsky.social @robehube.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @usyseth.bsky.social

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · Sep 3

New paper out, where we attempted to identify clusters of behaviourally similar* agri-environmental practices: www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.ph...

* similar in terms of behaviourally relevant, adoption-driving factors

Grouping Agri-Environmental Practices in Germany Along Behavioural Drivers for Adoption | German Journal of Agricultural Economics

www.tib-op.org

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · Sep 3

Best Conference Paper Award at the 18th EAAE Congress 🥳

for our paper 'Large Language Model Analysis Reveals Key Reasons Behind Massive Farmer Protests in Europe' led by Christian Stetter, and with Eva-Marie Meemken and Andrea Fürholz.

Kudos Christian!! @christianstetter.bsky.social

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · Sep 2

‘Agricultura e politica: Quant ferma è la politica agrara en Svizra?’

Interview on the role of agriculture in the Swiss policy landscape in Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha (RTR) (in Rumantsch)

www.rtr.ch/novitads/svi...

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