IAMO Director Prof. Alfons Balmann has been elected as a member of the managing commitee of the German Association of Agricultural Economics (GEWISOLA) at the general assembly on 26 September 2013 in Berlin. New chairman is Prof. Roland Herrmann from the Institute of Agricultural Policy and Market Research, Gießen University. The new managing committee will start working in January 2014.
The GEWISOLA, which was founded in 1959, supports research and teaching, the sharing of experience among its members and with institutions in Germany and abroad, as well as the discussion of scientific problems. It has approximately 400 members, who are active in science, at universities and research institutes, in administration, in agricultural science companies as well as in consulting and practice as agricultural economists and agricultural sociologists.