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Robert Huber
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Researcher in the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group ETH Zürich
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Join us next week! 'Pesticide-free production systems: opportunities, hurdles and policy options'

27.11., 17:15–18:45. ETH Zurich, CHN F46

With presentations by Per Kudsk, Niklas Möhring, Ilaria Pertot and Eileen Ziehmann, followed by a panel discussion worldfoodsystem.ethz.ch/outreach-and...
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Great presentation today by Melissa Chapman on 'Designing equitable strategies to meet global conservation and restoration targets' in the IED Seminar at ETH Zürich @milliechapman.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

Homepage Environmental Policy Lab: epl.ethz.ch
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Excited to share our new paper “Beyond the Textbook” in "Applied Economics Teaching Resources" on how students learned agricultural policy with an AI tutor.

If AI is here to stay in teaching, let’s focus on using it well!
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Beyond the Textbook: Students’ Experiences Learning Agricultural Policy with an AI Tutor | Applied Economics Teaching Resources
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November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Fantastic Agroeconet Seminar today at ETH Zürich 👏

The Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA) organized its autumn seminar Agroeconet with 8 presentations from 5 institutions and with more than 75 people attending!

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November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Positive Nachrichten via Agroscope: Das landwirtschaftliche Einkommen in der Schweiz ist im Jahr 2024 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 2,6 Prozent gestiegen. Auch über einen längeren Zeitraum betrachtet, ist es steigend.

Details www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/de... @agroscope.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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‚Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands‘

Our new paper in Ecological Economics led by Nicolas Alou and with Sergei Schaub, Matthias Suter and Andreas Lüscher.

Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Gemeinsam verantwortlich: Bevölkerungsperspektiven auf die Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik

ICYMI: Policy Brief in der Agrarforschung Schweiz zu unserem Paper geleitet von Judith Irek @agroscope.bsky.social

www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/2025/10/geme...

Paper in Q Open doi.org/10.1093/qope...
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for our Special Issue in Agricultural Systems on 'Wise agricultural systems: A systems approach to digital transformation' led by Carlos Parra López is now online

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November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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'Aligning agricultural policy: discrepancies between public and farmer priorities'

New paper led by Nadja El Benni and with Jeanine Ammann, Judith Irek, Antonia Kaiser, Christian Ritzel, Yanbing Wang and Gabi Mack in Agricultural and Food Economics.

Open Access: doi.org/10.1186/s401...
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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'Pesticide-free production systems: opportunities, hurdles and policy options'

Join us 27 November, 17:15–18:45. ETH Zurich, CHN F46

The event will feature presentations by Per Kudsk, Niklas Möhring, Ilaria Pertot and Eileen Ziehmann, followed by a panel discussion @ethzwfsc.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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‚Shared responsibility: understanding the role of governments, farmers, retailers, and consumers in food system policies’

New paper in Q Open led by Judith Irek and with Jeanine Ammann, Andreia Arbenz, Gabi Mack & Nadja El Benni @agroscope.bsky.social

Open Access academic.oup.com/qopen/articl...
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Outstanding EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) Masterclass by Christian Stetter on 'AI for Text Analysis in Agricultural Economics' 👏

Details on Christian's research scholar.google.com/citations?us..., and on the EAAE: eaae.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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„Spannungsfeld nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz”

Gestern hat die Gruppe für Agrarökonomie und Agrarpolitik der ETH Zürich einen spannenden Workshop zum Thema ausgerichtet. Es nahmen 40 Personen aus sehr verschiedenen Bereichen teil.

Details siehe LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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ETH Zürich launched the Albert Einstein School of Public Policy aiming to advance education and research, and particularly the dialogue between science, public policy and society.

I am honored and thrilled to serve as head of research (policy) on the board

Details einstein-school.ethz.ch/en/
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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"Who Gets to Eat? Navigating Trade-offs in Sustainable Food Systems'.

It was a great honour and pleasure to moderate a panel discussion on this topic as part of the UN-ETH Forum this morning. @ethzwfsc.bsky.social

Details: un-eth.ethz.ch/un-eth-forum...
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Kickoff of the UN-ETH Forum ‚Science and Policy in Turbulent Times’ at ETH Zurich
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October 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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‘How Voluntary Climate Protection Measures Can Be Successful’

New policy brief in the Agrarforschung Schweiz led by Marta Tarruella www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2025/10/f...

Policy brief is also available in German and French

Full Paper doi.org/10.1111/1467...
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Thrilled to share a new paper in the Journal of Agricultural Economics! With SRUC & iDiv, we use a labelled DCE to assess how farmer identities shape institutional preferences for privately financed grassland AECM.

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<em>Journal of Agricultural Economics</em> | Wiley Online Library
This study investigates farmer preferences for publicly and privately financed agri-environmental contracts. Using a labelled Discrete Choice Experiment with 366 German grassland farmers, we examine ...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz und die Rolle der digitalen Landwirtschaft

Neuer Agrarpolitik Blog
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Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
October 7, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Sustainable crop protection and the role of digital agriculture

New paper in Agricultural Systems

Open Access www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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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...
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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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...
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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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! 🥳
October 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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

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October 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Really, really happy to share this new publication by Malin Gütschow and myself on farmers’ identity in the context of multifunctionality 🚜🌾🪲🐦

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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.
September 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM