UniBonn

The Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn (UBonn), is one of the leading German university institutions in the field of agricultural economics. The chair "economic and agricultural policy" involved in this proposal has specialised on agricultural sector modelling and the development of agricultural policy information systems over more then three decades. One of its main objectives is to provide quantitative impact analyses for national and international policy makers with respect to economic and environmental aspects of existing and contemplated agri-environmental policies. For this purpose, the group developed several large scale agricultural sector models and the corresponding data bases. During the last decade, the CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact) model was continuously developed and applied, featuring a differentiated representation of the EU agricultural sector with a world trade model for agricultural products.

With respect to the specific orientation of this proposal, the team at UBonn has expertise in the multi-level governance of food safety and consumer protection policies considering different private and public actors and the welfare analysis of externalities and asymmetric information. A current project also aims at impact assessment of animal welfare and food safety rules of the European Cross Compliance legislation. Furthermore, an ongoing PhD project evaluates trade impacts of NTM's in the poultry meat sector estimating econometric models in a multi-country framework.

 International relevant project experience

The team co-ordinated specific targeted research projects in the 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th EC Framework Programs (CAPRI, Capstrat, DynaSpat) centred around the development of the CAPRI modelling system and contributed significantly to impact assessments of bilateral trade agreements with in the projects  EUMedAgPol, EU-MercoPol). Apart from more EU and developing county oriented activities on agri-environmental interaction, the team also engages in market and trade related aspects within the integrated project SEAMLESS.

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