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
News
A resilience-oriented CAP needs to address robustness, adaptability and transformability of agriculture
Inauguration Prof.dr.ir. Miranda Meuwissen: save the date: 12 April 2018.
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.
Latest publications
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Determinants of health seeking behaviour following rabies exposure in Ethiopia
Zoonoses and Public Health 65 (2018)4. - ISSN 1863-1959 - p. 443 - 453.
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Decomposing dynamic profit inefficiency of Belgian dairy farms
European Review of Agricultural Economics 45 (2018)1. - ISSN 0165-1587 - p. 81 - 99.
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Factors influencing the stay-exit intention of small livestock farmers
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 16 (2018)1. - ISSN 1695-971X