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:
News
Impact stories
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Fighting avian influenza in Indonesia
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is a major problem in Indonesia. The economic damage is enormous; smaller farms suffer from one or more... -
Investing in resilience; more than risk management
Resilience is a subject of great interest in science and policy. Farming systems are faced with major risks and uncertainties, just think of the...
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.
Tools
Latest publications
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Relating risk preferences and risk perceptions over different agricultural risk domains : Insights from Ethiopia
World Development 162 (2023). - ISSN 0305-750X -
Epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in Thailand from 2011 to 2018
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (2022). - ISSN 1865-1674 -
Energy productivity and greenhouse gas emission intensity in Dutch dairy farms : A Hicks–Moorsteen by-production approach under non-convexity and convexity with equivalence results
Journal of Agricultural Economics (2022). - ISSN 0021-857X