Business Economics
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:
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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.
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Latest publications
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Analyzing Components of Productivity Growth Using the Bennet-Lowe Indicator: An Application to Welsh Sheep Farms
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101 (2019)4. - ISSN 0002-9092 - p. 1262 - 1276.
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Institutions and the resilience of biobased production systems: the historical case of livestock intensification in the Netherlands
Ecology and Society 24 (2019)4. - ISSN 1708-3087
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Production Diseases Reduce the Efficiency of Dairy Production: A Review of the Results, Methods, and Approaches Regarding the Economics of Mastitis
Annual Review of Resource Economics 11 (2019). - ISSN 1941-1340 - p. 289 - 312.