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Joint appointment between the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Leibniz University Hannover

Together with the journal "Sustainability", the Thünen Institute is working on a special issue on the subject of food waste. In terms of content, it is primarily concerned with national strategies for the prevention and monitoring of food waste.

The 59th Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture (GEWISOLA) will be held from Wednesday, 25 September to Friday 27 September 2019 at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig (Germany). The local organizers are the Thünen Institutes of Farm Economics, of…

In the next three years, Andreas Klärner and Annett Steinführer will head a research project on social disadvantage in rural peripheries.

New publication of Patrick Küpper, Stefan Kundolf, Tobias Mettenberger and Gesine Tuitjer

The CAOS project and the University of Uppsala host the International Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture on Organic Soils from 23-24 November 2017 at Uppsala, Sweden.

New publication of Andreas Klärner and André Knabe

Professor Dr. Peter Weingarten has been appointed by the German Minister of Food and Agriculture, Christian Schmidt, to the newly established Expert Council for Rural Development.

With the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Commission decided upon a more environmental-friendly, “greener” first pillar. The effectiveness of the greening measures for nature conservation and environmental protection, however, is discussed controversially. In various projects…

Within the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy farms with more than 15ha arable land must manage 5% of their area as an ecological focus area. How were these areas used previously? How valuable are they for nature protection?