• Management...

    .. in agriculture and in forestry

  • Sustainability...

    ... we develop and evaluate concepts for the sustainable production of biological resources

  • Crops and animals

    Our research covers both crop production and animal husbandry, both in conventional and organic systems

  • Multifunctionality

    We analyse and assess the diverse functions of agriculture and forestry

  • Renewable energy

    We analyse the economic aspects of the production of renewable energy (e.g. biogas, Silphium production)

  • Environmenal protection

    The balance between ecology and economy is at the core of our research

WiSo at IUFRO World Congress XXV

Seven researchers from the WiSo Department participated in the XXV IUFRO World Congress in Curitiba, Brazil!

CONSOLE

Contract solutions for effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public good by EU agriculture and forestry / H2020 (May 2019 - April 2022)

Comics to promote reflexivity

I. Darnhofer published a paper where she describes the use of comic-style posters as an effective way to engage participants in a workshop setting. Also, the process of developing the posters can promote researcher reflexivity.

Low-Input Farming and Territories

LIFT - A H2020 project on integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming (May 2018 - April 2022)

We need qualitative social sciences!

K. Sherren and I. Darnhofer published an opinion piece arguing for the value of qualitative social sciences to understand decisions made by farmers, pastoralists, ranchers, and foresters.

Organic farming and adaptive capacity

M. Bouttes, I. Darnhofer and G. Martin published a paper showing that French dairy farmers perceive organic farming as increasing their adaptive capacity

Preferences for public goods provided by agriculture

A. Niedermayr, L. Schaller, P. Kieninger, and J. Kantelhardt published a paper, showing heterogeneous marginal willingness to pay within the local population of the Marchfeld, for improvements in groundwater quality, landscape quality and soil functionality.

RECOMS

A Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network with 15 Fellows in 5 countries (Mar. 2018 - Feb. 2022)

Agricultural landscape and regional competitiveness

L. Schaller et al. published a paper on how to assess the role of economic actors, ecosystem services, socio-economic benefits and regional competitiveness; and applied it in nine European case-study areas.

Diversification and efficiency

Kirchweger, Kantelhardt et al.: In Austria and Switzerland the diversification of organic farms positively influences farm output; but it may reduce technical efficiency.

Landscape policies need to be regionally embedded

L. Schaller and J. Kantelhardt co-author a paper conceptualizing the interrelationships between policies and landscapes, taking into account the specificities of various rural localities.

In agricultural economics, our work focuses on...

In agricultural economics, our work focuses on...

  • Analysis and empirical studies at the farm level for conventional farms
  • Economics of organic farming
  • Economics of on-farm production of renewable energy
  • Processing of agricultural products
  • On-farm decision making processes
  • Cooperation between farms
  • Farm household income analysis
  • Development of management tools
  • On-farm production planning
  • Land valuation

In forestry economics, we focus on:

In forestry economics, we focus on:

  • Efficiency analysis of forest enterprises and forest related processes
  • Development of management tools for forest enterprises
  • Forestry in the context of national accounting
  • Monitoring of profitability of forestry in Austria by means of forest accountancy networks
  • Valuation of forest services in terms of welfare economics
  • Marketing of non-wood goods and forest services

Management and Administration

Head

Univ.Prof. Dr.
 Jochen Kantelhardt
Deputy

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn.
 Walter Sekot
Secretary

Michaela Grötzer
Secretary

B.A. B.A.
 Sabine Muhr

Addresses & Contact

H73300 Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics (AFO)

Guttenberghaus, 1. Stock rechts
Feistmantelstraße 4
1180 Wien

Contact:
http://www.wiso.boku.ac.at/afo/
Tel.: +43 1 47654-73300
Fax: +43 1 47654-73309
afo(at)boku.ac.at

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