Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 08/May/2025
9:15am
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9:45am
Anmeldung / Registration
9:45am
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10:00am
Begrüssung / Welcome Reception
Location: Plenary K4+K5
Chair: Nadja El Benni, Agroscope
10:00am
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11:00am
Plenary Session I
Location: Plenary K4+K5
Chair: Nadja El Benni, Agroscope
 

The role of agricultural economics research for policy-making – the developments of Swiss ex-ante models

Gabriele Mack

Agroscope, Schweiz



Ernährungssicherheit durch Nachhaltigkeit von der Produktion bis zum Konsum

Christian Hofer

Direktor Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft / Federal Office for Agriculture, Schweiz

11:00am
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11:15am
Break I
11:15am
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12:30pm
Session 1a: Policy Measures: Production
Location: Plenary K4+K5
Chair: Robert Finger, ETH Zürich
 

TRQ administration methods: Between market protection and distortion

Judith Irek

Agroscope, Switzerland



A systematic review of lessons learned from collective agri-environmental schemes

Robert Huber1, Claudia Bethwell2, Caitriona Carlin3, Viviane Fahrni1, Katrin Karner4, Raja Imran Hussain3, Gesche Kindermann3, Monika Suskevics5, Sandra Uthes2, Martin Schönhart6, Christian Stetter1

1: Agricultural Economics and Policy, Switzerland; 2: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V.; 3: University of Galway; 4: BOKU University; 5: Estonian University of Life Sciences; 6: Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research



Assessing the Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts and Trade-offs of a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tax in Swiss Agriculture

Marta Tarruella1,2, Gabriele Mack1, Eva Winter1, Robert Huber2, Robert Finger2, Nadja El Benni1

1: Economic Modelling and Policy Analysis Group, Agroscope, Tänikon, 8356 Ettenhausen, Switzerland; 2: Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Session 1b: Farm Diversification
Location: Room K2
Chair: Daniel Mettler, Agridea
 

The use of crop diversification in agricultural yield insurance products

Jonas Schmitt1, Frank Offermann2, Robert Finger1

1: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Thuenen Institute of Farm Economics, Braunschweig, Germany



Bundles of pesticide reduction practices in Swiss viticulture

Eileen Ziehmann, Lucca Zachmann, Robert Finger

ETH Zürich, Switzerland



Coping with production risk: substitutability between crop insurances and sown plant diversity in grassland farming systems

Nicolas Alou1, Sergei Schaub2, Martin Quaas3, Robert Finger1

1: ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Agroscope, Switzerland; 3: iDiv, Germany

Session 1c (Organised): Auf der Suche nach anderen Agrarsystemen
Location: Room K3
 

Auf der Suche nach anderen Agrarsystemen

Melf-Hinrich Ehlers1, Geiser Anna2, Stefan Mann1, Stotten Rike3, Faltmann Nora3

1: Agroscope, Schweiz; 2: FiBL, Schweiz; 3: Universität Innsbruck, Österreich

12:30pm
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1:45pm
Mittagspause / Lunch Break I
Location: Restaurant (self-service), seating in K16
1:45pm
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3:00pm
Session 2a: Policy Measures: Consumption
Location: Plenary K4+K5
Chair: Loredana Sorg, Biovision Foundation
 

Funding the Shift: Public Attitudes towards Financial Support for Sustainable Livestock Farming and Animal Welfare in Germany

Moritz Köder1, Marie von Meyer-Höfer2, Sarah Kühl3

1: University of Göttingen, Germany; 2: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Germany; 3: Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany



Consumer preferences for different types of sustainability levies

Jeanine Ammann, Gabriele Mack, Nadja El Benni, Rita Saleh

Agroscope, Switzerland



Towards a sustainable chocolate supply chain: Aligning Swiss consumer preferences with policy measures

Max Rudolf

Swiss Federal Institut for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland

Session 2b: Economic viability
Location: Room K2
Chair: Phatima Mamardashvili, BFH-HAFL
 

Regional Economic and Environmental Efficiency Variation and its Determinants in the Irish Dairy Farm: A by-Production Approach

Md. Nur Mozahid1, Cornelis Gardebroek1, Fiona Thorne2, Frederic Ang3

1: Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands; 2: Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Surveys, Rural Economy and Development Programme, Teagasc, Ireland; 3: Business Economics Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands



Productivity, emissions intensity and pollution swapping effects in dairy farming

Iordanis Parikoglou1, Stefan Wimmer2, Robert Finger1

1: Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich; 2: Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture



Financial viability does not influence EU farmers' decision to convert to organic

Lina Tennhardt, Christian Grovermann, Martina Bozzola

Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL), Schweiz

 
3:00pm
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3:15pm
Pause / Break II
3:15pm
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4:40pm
Session 3a: Farmers' Adoption
Location: Plenary K4+K5
Chair: Nadja El Benni, Agroscope
 

The role of social and personal norms in biodiversity conservation: A segmentation of Swiss farmers

Christian Ritzel1, Antonia Kaiser1,2, Yanbing Wang1, Gabriele Mack1

1: Agroscope, Schweiz; 2: Universität Basel, Schweiz



Determinants of farmers’ adoption of climate-friendly practices in Western Europe

Sylvain Quiédeville, Charles Rees, Lorin Ineichen, Christian Grovermann

FIBL, Switzerland



Behavioural factors and opportunity costs determine farmers' adoption of integrated pest management: A systematic review for European agriculture

Sharmin Akter1, Chloe McCallum2, Cordelia Kreft1, Niklas Möhring3, Robert Finger1

1: ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Queen's University Belfast; 3: University of Bonn, Germany



Landscape outcomes of collective agri-environmental schemes

Viviane Fahrni, Robert Finger, Robert Huber

Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETHZ, Switzerland

Session 3b: Labour & Earnings
Location: Room K2
Chair: Daniel Mettler, Agridea
 

The agricultural earnings value level: potential consequences of a methodological adjustment and trade-offs to be considered

Maria Dieterle, Daniel Hoop

Agroscope, Switzerland



Entschädigung und soziale Absicherung von mitarbeitenden Ehe-Partnerinnen auf Schweizer Landwirtschaftsbetrieben: Detailliertere Wissensgrundlage für eine zielgerichtete Politik

Sandra Contzen, Anna Kröplin

Berner Fachhochschule, Schweiz



The Political Economy of Labour Matching - Evidence from Swiss Viticulture

Celestina Heepen, Patrick Illien, Eva-Marie Meemken

ETH Zürich, Switzerland



Climate change adaptation for food security in farm households: A gender-based differential analysis for Cameroon

Boris Dinictri Soh Wenda1, Hamza Moluh Njoya1,2, Saubaber Gamo Longang3, Arshad Muhammad1, Ernest Lytia Molua4,5, Stefan Sieber1,2, Katharina Löhr1,2

1: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany; 2: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany; 3: University of Dschang, Cameroon; 4: University of Buea, Cameroon; 5: Centre for Independent Development Research (CIDR), Buea, Cameroon

 
4:40pm
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6:15pm
Agroscope Tour: Start in Plenary room
Location: Plenary K4+K5
6:15pm
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7:00pm
Apéro
Location: Meetingpoint K15
7:00pm
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10:00pm
Nachtessen / Dinner
Location: Restaurant (self-service), seating in K16

 
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