About Us
- Our Challenge: Agriculture faces the major challenge of providing sufficient food and farm incomes – while reducing its substantital contribution to environmental pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change.
- Our Goal: The Production Economics Group strives to identify pathways towards more sustainable and resilient agricultural and food production systems – and to quantify the potential impacts and trade-offs of such transformations.
- Our Methods: In our research, we combine cutting-edge quantitative methods for the analysis of human behavior and decision-making with a profound understanding of the economic, agronomic and ecological processes in agri-food systems.
- Our Scope: Our research primarily focuses on German and European agriculture – but also aims to compare results from local to regional and global scales through the participation in (inter)national research projects, co-operations and networks.
- Our Partners: We work for and with farmers, food-value-chain actors, policymakers and other societal actors to support their decision-making with evidence-based information. We co-operate with researchers from different disciplines and countries.
- Our Teaching: We aim to educate and inspire future leaders on the transformation of agricultural production systems in the agri-food sector, policy and science.
- Our Team-DNA: We are driven by curiosity, creativity and impact beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Head of Group
Niklas Möhring
Niklas Möhring is an Agricultural Economist (and food lover) working on human decision-making in agricultural and food systems, taking an inherently interdisciplinary approach.
His research aims to support food-value chain actors in the transformation to more sustainable and resilient agricultural and food systems, with a specific focus on sustainable plant protection.
Niklas is head of the Production Economics Group at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany.
Find out more about our research in our blog or get an overview of all publications on Google Scholar.
Production Economics Group
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