Agenda
Coming up
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Erwin Bulte (WUR - DEC) Participatory Resource Management, Elite Capture and Local Livelihoods: Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia -
Solmaria Halleck Vega (WUR - UEC) Abrupt shifts in national land use and food production after a climate tipping point -
Huan Ha (UC Louvain, Belgium) Peer-to-peer Sharing vs. Secondhand Market: Implications on the Manufacturing Firm of Durable Goods -
Aliza Fleischer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Economic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services: The Case of Landscape Aesthetics in the Agritourism Market -
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food - The Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is the annual international point of assembly and an exchange of knowledge in the field of Food history...
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Farewell Address Professor Ekko van Ierland
Past activities
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GianCarlo Moschini (Iowa State University, U.S.A.) The Value of Product Innovations: Genetically Engineered Seeds -
Critical Gender Studies in the Life Sciences domains -
Gert Jan Hofstede (WUR, INF) Iconic patterns in Agent-Based Modelling -
Seminar by Minghui Li - On October 8 Minghui Li, from the History department of the University of Groningen, will give a presentation at the Leeuwenborch. The title of the...
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Jetske Bouma (PBL, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) Evaluating environmental policy: the use & usefulness of experiments -
Alan de Brauw (IFPRI) Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh -
Jaap Sok (Business Economics, WUR) Farmers’ heterogeneous motives, voluntary vaccination and disease spread: an agent-based model -
XXI Annual BIOECON Conference - Inequality and poverty in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management
The Scientific Partners of BIOECON are pleased to inform you that... -
Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): Who exits from a reforming sector? The case of dairy farmers in Israel -
Economics of Farm Households - 1 ECTS -
Ewout Frankema (Rural and Environmental History, Wageningen University) The Great Convergence. Skill Accumulation and Mass Education in Africa and Asia, 1870-present -
Esther Gehrke (U California, Berkeley, USA) Technical change and fertility: Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia -
Assessing Economics and Policies Using the Real Options Methodology - 3 ECTS - Irreversible effects do play an important role in private as well as public decision making. The basis for the Precautionary Principle, an important... -
Jenny Aker (Tufts University, Boston): Let it Rain. What Drives the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel? - While it is widely recognized that sustained yield improvements in areas with highly degraded soils require intensive agricultural practices, the... -
Farewell Professor Wim Heijman -
Daniel Gregg (University of Adelaide): Is consumption sticky for the rural poor? - Consumption and savings play a key role in the prevalence of chronic poverty. Yet the dynamics with respect to income and over time have been rarely... -
Itamar Megiddo (University of Strathclyde): What is the value of antibiotics? Models of withholding antibiotics - The existing business models for antibiotics fail to promote antibiotics stewardship to preserve our existing portfolio of drugs, while at the same... -
Jacob de Hoop (UNICEF): Lost Horizon, the impact of terminating cash support to displaced Syrian children in Jordan - Humanitarian funding is volatile. Consequently, humanitarian interventions are often scaled down while the crisis they are designed to address is... -
Stefania Bortolotti (Max Planck Institute): Hope and Anger, an experiment on inequality and antisocial behavior - Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a situation where only the rich... -
Frits Bos (CPB): Nature in cost-benefit analysis for water management - The way nature has been incorporated in Dutch cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) for water management has changed drastically over time: from CBAs in which...