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Institute of Farm Economics (TI-BW)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute of Farm Economics is one of three agricultural economy institutes in the TI. It cooperates closely with the two other economic institutes, the Institute of Rural Studies and the Institute of Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- A quantitative and qualitative assessment of the socio-economic and environmental impacts of decoupling of direct payments on agricultural production, markets and land use in the EU
- Agriculture and agricultural policy 2010 (development, policy analysis and evaluation of policy concepts beyond 2010)
- An approach to estimate the interregional competitiveness of sugar beets - using the example of selected European regions
- Analysing the competitiveness of pig production around the world
- Analysis of Farm Structures in German
- Analysis of possible implementation paths of the recommendations of the Livestock Competence Network using the example of two practical farms with piglet production and pig finishing
- Analysis of Production Costs on Dairy Farms within the European Dairy Farmers (EDF) Network
- Analysis of the economic situation of organic farming
- Analysis of the impacts of the CAP-reform on farms with beef and cow-calf production as well as analysis of farm-level adaption-strategies
- Analysis of the status quo of German horticulture
- Analysis of the structure and competitiveness of the German horticultural sector
- Analysis of the support scheme for processing and marketing of agricultural products in the context of monitoring and ongoing evaluation of six rural development programmes during the years 2007 to 2013
- Assessing farmers' costs of compliance with EU legislation in the fields of environment, animal welfare and food safety
- Assessment of the transmission effects of direct payments and quotas and their impacts on farm development
- Benchmarking the beef supply chain in eastern Indonesia
- Collaborative project: 'Dairy Sustainability Tool”: Implementation and feasibility of a sector-specific concept for the sustainable development of dairy production in Germany. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Efficient fuel use in agricultural technology - subproject 11
- Collaborative project: Increasing resource efficiency by optimizing crop and milk production on whole farm level under consideration of animal welfare quality aspects. Subproject: Economic analyses of resource efficiency of farms
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 1
- Competitiveness of beef production in the USA, Canada and the EU
- Competitiveness of Russian Crop Production
- Conditions for and impacts of a phasing out milk quotas
- Conversion and transmission of national farm returns to the Farm Accountancy Data Network of the European Union (FADN) and methodological developments in terms of policy advice
- Copernicus lights green - Integration and practice transfer of Copernicus activities for a comprehensive official monitoring of grassland
- Crop portfolio composition under shifting output price relations - Analyzed for selected locations in Canada and Germany
- Crop: production systems und their economics - international competitiveness, technology-related research, policy impact assessment
- Development and application of new methodological frameworks for the evaluation of environmental impacts of rural development programmes in the EU
- Development and application of new methodological frameworks for the evaluation of environmental impacts of rural development programmes in the EU
- Development and proving of an approach for the estimation of the future European sugar beet production
- Development in terms of trade for EU-farms in the agri benchmark networks 'Beef and Sheep' as well as 'Cash Crop' compared to key third countries
- Development of a regionalized EU-wide operational model to assess the impact of Common Agricultural Policy on farming sustainability, Task 2: Development of a farm typology and integration of farm system models for a regionalized agricultural sector
- Development of cost of production for alternative production systems and management practices in agriculture
- Development of management recommendations for small group housing systems for laying hens under practical conditions in comparison with aviaries
- Distributional effects of CAP (Common Agricultural Policy of the EU) liberalisation
- Diversification, specialisation, co-operation in organic farming: Concpets and strategies for better farm management and work organisation
- Economic analysis of adaption dairy cattle to climate change in Lower Saxony
- Economic analysis of points for the improvement of animal health in pig farms
- Economic analysis of the dairy processing industry (competitiveness of the supply chain, structural and regional developments, technology attendend science, analysis on politics)
- Economic assessment and adoption potential of new technologies in horticulture (WeGa - Product and production safety of highly intense plant production - work package 4.4)
- Economic assessment of nitrogene fertilization strategies in open field vegetable production
- Economic evaluation of keeping lay hens in small groups
- Economic performance of organic farming in Germany under changed agricultural policy framework Conditions
- Economic viability of organic farming in Germany under changed agricultural policy framework conditions
- Establishment and profitability analysis of rye producing farms in Germany, Poland, Scandinavia and the Baltic States as well as Russia and Ukraine
- Estimation of future investment demand in milk production until 2015 in Germany
- Estimation of national cost share structures in beef finishing
- European Dairy Industry Model (EDIM)
- Evaluation of the EU legislation on organic farming
- Evaluation of the EU policy for rural areas: comparative analysis for evaluation practices taking the investment in agricultural holdings in Germany and the United Kingdom as an example
- Evaluation of the Hessian scheme supporting product innovation and marketing alternatives in the period 2000 – 2004
- Extension of organic farming in Germany: Determination of reasons for re-conversion of organic farms to conventional agriculture and development of a sustainable approach to prevent it
- Farm Accountancy Cost Estimation and Policy Analysis of European Agriculture
- Farm economic analysis within the Research and Development project “Expansion of a broad row crop concept for winter wheat to rye, oats, rape and legumes“
- Farm level implications of high commodity prices -An assesment of adaptation strategies and potentials in selected regions in Australia and Germany (agri benchmark)
- Funding of organic farming in Germany – Status, Development and International Perspectives
- Further development of the Thünen model network - Farm models
- Impact analysis of EU and national agricultural policies
- Impact analysis of public support of income diversification in agricultural holdings in the framework of monitoring and ongoing evaluation of six state programmes for rural development during the years 2007-2013
- Improving the quantification of GHG emissions and flows of reactive nitrogen (IDEAg-NG)
- Indicators for a Payment-by-Results Approach for Animal Welfare Measures and Organic Farming
- Information system for the assessment of the adaptation process in dairy farms worldwide
- Integration of farm agricultural statistics and GIS data
- International comparative analysis of beef production within the agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Networ
- International competitiveness and efficiency of apple production in Germany and other European countries
- International competitiveness of organic cereal, oilseed and pulse production and strategies for the expansion of production in Germany
- Methodological grids for payment calculations in rural development measures in the EU (AGRIGRID)
- Mid-term-evaluation of farm investment support based on Reg. (EC) No. 1257/1999 during the period 2000 to 2003
- Model-based impact assessment of renewable primary products - project part B: Implememtation of the model RAUMIS for impact assessment in the area of renewables
- Modelling farm structural change
- Monitoring and ongoing evaluation of six state-related programmes for the development of rural areas during the years 2007 to 2013: subarea farm investment scheme
- Monitoring Farm Animal Welfare - a preparation of a prototype for Germany
- Monitoring of climate-impacting measures in crop and grassland management with satellite data
- Monitoring of climate-impacting measures in crop and grassland management with satellite data
- New plant production systems with autonomous agricultural machinery
- Perspectives of farm structures, cropping patterns and production systems in Russia and the Ukraine
- Photovoltaics on agricultural land: Economy of different concepts
- Policy support for organic farming - measures, strategies and farm-level perspectives. Coordination
- Practical trials of surgical castration of piglets under anesthesia and postoperative pain elimination using Procain, Isofluran and Ketamin / Azaperon
- Preparation of a prototype for a national animal welfare report
- Production costs for pork in the international comparison of the network InterPIG
- Quantitative analysis of the sectoral impacts of an expansion of organic farming in the EU
- ReFuMi - Regionalisation of feedingstuff
- Relevance of the replacement strategy for the competetiveness of milk production
- Renewable resources - economically analyzed
- Securing the feed and food supply chain from bio- and agroterrorism - economic assessment of bio- and agroterrorist attacks and prevention measures
- South-East Asian agri benchmark network 'rice economics'
- Status quo analysis of selected sustainability aspects in milk production in Lower Saxony
- Sugar raw materials: production systems and production costs in chosen countries
- The future competitiveness of sugar beet production in the European Union in comparison to sugar cane production in developing countries
- TRUSTEE Task 'Validation of the implementation logic of RD-measures and the Baseline in the CAPRI model'
- Twinning Light Project HR/2008/IB/AG/03TL, Verification of EU conformity of the Croatian Farm Accountancy Data Network
- Use and efficiency of public support measures addressing organic farming
- Yield development in Germany between 1994 and 2008
- Zoonoses and food safety along global supply chains. Subproject: Economic assessment of food safety with regard to zoonoses
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- 6-State-Evaluation, Assessment of Rural development programmes of the German Länder Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen und Hamburg 2000-2006
- Accompanying research on the National Future Plan of Organic Farming
- Agricultural Extreme Weather and Risk Management Possibilities
- Analysis of the employment opportunities in the German agricultural sector and of the job-creating effects of agricultural policies
- Baseline with market models
- Causes and impacts of developments on agricultural land markets
- Development of a concept for the coherent and differentiated remuneration of the environmental benefits of organic farming
- Development of measures of an efficient climate protection policy for agriculture
- Development of targeted and efficient schemes to increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
- Elaboration and analysis of proposals for further development of the 2nd pillar of EU agricultural policy
- Evaluation of German rural programs for less favoured areas for the program period 2000 - 2006
- Expansion of cultivation concept 'wide range' from winter wheat to rye, oats, canola and peas. A plant cultivation and economic analysis, taking into account the impact of preceding crop
- FOR 986 TP6: Assessing the impacts of the WTO negotiation on the global, national and farm level
- Funding of organic farming in Germany - status, development and international perspective
- Further development of evaluation concepts regarding rural development policies
- Long-term climate mitigation policies for the agri-food sector
- On-going evaluation of six Rural Development Programmes 2007 to 2013
- WeGa - Work package 6.5
Contact
Institute of Farm Economics
(TI-BW)
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 531-596 5102
Fax: +49 531-596 5199
Email: bw(@)thuenen.de