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Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute of Rural Development - Institut fuer Rurale Entwicklung (IRE) - at the University of Goettingen was founded in 1963 and occupies an important position in teaching and research on rural development issues. The focus of the IRE is placed on the economic, political and social dimensions of agricultural and rural development. The IRE's research and teaching activities are multidisciplinary, multi-sector oriented and include urban-rural relations.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Acquisition and use orientations as determinants for the expression of village profiles (Hesse-Kassel in 1737)
- Agricultural policy between path dependence and path creation: Theoretical considerations and empirical studies
- Assignment between regional supply concepts and innovative regional marketing approaches (Collaborative Producer-Trade-Concept/CPTC)
- Back to the inertia in economic structures - an empirical analysis using the real option approach
- Bio-energy state Lower Saxony - Socio-economic assessment of renewable energy production by agriculture and forestry
- Business and market analysis of court festivals as an instrument of regional marketing
- Claim group management for farms in regions of the intensive processing industry
- Collaborative project: AIDA - Alliances for a horizontal coordination of information and service agencies concerning quality, health and risk management tasks within the meat economy – Subproject 03
- Collaborative project: Analysis and development of indicators for animal welfare in fattening pig housing. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Animal Welfare Label – Development of a market-conform animal welfare program in the pork chain – Subproject 5
- Collaborative project: Livestock Farming: Acceptance through Innovation (SocialLab_II) - subproject7
- Collaborative project: Small private forests: conservation through resource use, subproject 2: Social-ecological analyses
- Collaborative: Innovative nitrogen management and innovative technologies to improve agricultural production and environmental protection in intensive Chinese agriculture. Subproject D: Agricultural and environmental-studies
- Corporate social responsibility in agribusiness
- Economic analysis of movement and trade restrictions and the potential for increased economic integration of agricultural markets and trade in Israel and the West Bank
- Economic Analysis: Operational adaptation strategies and agricultural structural change
- Effects of poverty and rural welfare effects of agricultural biotechnology in India
- Evaluation of applied equilibrium models of the agricultural sector: quantification of systematic relationships between the model specifications and forecast results
- Forest insurance policy improvements based on the analysis of foresters’ behaviour in insurance decision situations
- High-Value Agricultural Markets and Contract Farming: Implications for Rural Development in Africa
- Impact of ecosystem restoration on food security and livelihood strategies in western Rwanda
- Joint project: recycling of organic residues from agriculture and urban areas in China. Subproject: Environmental-economic assessment
- KULUNDA: How to prevent the next »Global Dust Bowl«? Ecological and economic strategies for sustainable land management in the Russian steppes: A potential solution to climate change. Subproject 3: Soil ecology, metabolism, agricultural economics, environment
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 4.3 Target Groups
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 4.4 Marketing strategies
- Prevention or reduction of negative economic consequences of extreme weather events for agriculture in Germany - Review of insurance solutions and other risk management instruments
- Prospects for a European welfare indicator
- SafeGuard. Work package 4.2 Quality and trust of cross border communication
- SFB 552: A5 - Welfare economic assessment of forest encroachment and ENSO effects in the face of Personal Capital and Social Capital dynamics
- SFB 552: A4 - Socioeconomic analysis of land use systems of rural households
- Socio-economic assessment of biogas production in Lower Saxony
- StroPellGas-Sustainable use of straw pellets for biogas production
- Sustainable chain organization in spatial systems, quality assurance and transparency in the 'North-West German model'
- Sustainable Trout Aquaculture Intensification
- Sustainable use of biomass in biogas plants based on the fertilizer potential in Lower Saxony
- Taxationsmethoden and experts in the agriculture sector in selected countries - UK, USA, Netherlands
- The sugar beet as an energy crop in crop rotations on highly productive sites - an agronomic / economic system analysis (phase II), sub-project 3: economic efficiency I - competitiveness
- WeGa - Work package 6.5
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Accelerating Poverty Reduction by Maximizing the Impact of Social Services Expenditures on Agricultural Labor Productivity and Incomes in African Countries
- Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in small vs. large scale agriculture
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 1.2 Organic product sensory properties
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 3.2 Development of sensory profiles
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 4.1 Market needs along the supply chain
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 4.2 Qualitative consumer research
- Organic sensory information system (OSIS): 5.4 Recommendations for a research agenda
- Quantitative political-economic modelling agricultural decision-making processes on the example of European agricultural policy in the context of EU enlargement
- Research Network milchtrends.de
- SFB 564: E4.1 - Quality and food safety issues in markets for high-value products in Thailand and Vietnam
Contact
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
37073 Göttingen
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49(0)0551-392399
Email: a.spiller(@)agr.uni-goettingen.de