Business Economics Group
Strategically placed within Wageningen University & Research, the Business Economics Group (BEC) performs research and teaches across a wide range of aspects of agricultural business economics and food supply chains.
Research
The chair group Business Economics carries out fundamental and applied research focusing on economic and management problems within the food chain. Research is categorized in the following research themes:
- Economics and management of farms and agribusiness
- Economics of animal health, plant health and food safety
- Economics of sustainable agriculture
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Education
The Business Economics group is composed of a professional team with a wide range of specializations. Students receive solid training in business economics providing them with the knowledge to address research questions in the area of the economics of farms and agribusinesses, animal health, plant health, food safety and sustainable agriculture. We encourage students to develop their own interests and to think critically.
Writing your MSc-thesis in Chile? ‘Farmers’ cooperative decision making and behaviour: the case of the distribution of water along an irrigation channel‘
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PhD Position ‘Economic and behavioural perspectives of investing in modern agricultural production systems in China’
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EAAE Seminar: Prospects for agricultural insurance in Europe
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Section Business Science
Latest publications
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Farm-level risk factors for bovine mastitis in Dutch automatic milking dairy herds
Journal of Dairy Science (2019). - ISSN 0022-0302
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The value of being socially responsible : A primal-dual approach
European Journal of Operational Research (2019). - ISSN 0377-2217
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Intramammary antimicrobial treatment of subclinical mastitis and cow performance later in lactation
Journal of Dairy Science (2019). - ISSN 0022-0302