Dr. Franziska Appel
Research Associate
Equal Opportunities Commissioner
Department:
Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas (Structural Change)
Dr. Franziska Appel
Research Associate
Equal Opportunities Commissioner
Department:
Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas (Structural Change)
Path dependencies
Structural change in agriculture
Agent-based modelling
Dr. Franziska Appel has been a research associate at IAMO in the Department Structural Change since September 2009. Previously, she worked for this department as a student assistant for two years. She studied agricultural sciences, with a specialization in economic and social sciences of agriculture, from 2005 to 2009 at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She has written her PhD thesis titled "Between path dependence and path creation: The impact of farmers’ behavior on structural change in agriculture" in the framework of the DFG-funded project "Models of farm level structural change DFG – SiAg". She is also IAMO's Equal Opportunities Officer.
- AgEnRes – Analyzing of fossil-energy dependence in agriculture to increase resilience against input price fluctuations
- AgriPoliS – Agricultural Policy Simulator
- AgriPoliS2020 – Sustainability of research software AgriPoliS
- FORLand – Agricultural Land Markets – Efficiency and Regulation
- FarmAgriPoliS – Participatory laboratory experiments with Agripolis
- FarmAgriPoliS 2.0 – A business simulation game to experience structural change in agriculture
- MIND STEP – Modelling Individual Decisions to Support the European Policies Related to Agriculture
- Rehwinkel Resilience – Resilience through change! Strategies for the agricultural sector and politics
- SURE-Farm – Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems
- SecureFood – An integrated approach to enhance food systems resilience, advocating for food security and uninterrupted food supply
- TERRSOC – 'Reading' Ancient Landscapes: Peasant Decision-Making and Terraced Agriculture in Central Palestine over la Longue Duree