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Edition 3/2017, 21 September 2017

Agricultural land prices have steadily increased over the past decade in many parts of the world. The German Research Foundation (DFG), together with the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF), supports the research unit "Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation" (FORLand) to better understand the reasons and effects of this price increase. The research unit is concerned with various questions on the functioning and efficiency of agricultural soil markets, with a goal of gaining a better understanding of the development of purchase and lease prices for agricultural land, to better understand price formation and development, and to better evaluate the impact of rising prices on social and ecological sustainability. The research unit is coordinated by Martin Odening from Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin, Germany, and by Silke Hüttel, University of Bonn, Germany. Additional project partners are the Technical University, Berlin, Germany, and the University of Göttingen, Germany, as well as the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. IAMO researchers Alfons Balmann, Daniel Müller, and Vladislav Valentinov are each coordinating a subproject within FORLand.

There currently is an open postdoc position at IAMO for the subproject "Ethical issues in agricultural land markets." The application deadline is 30 September. More informationen

Contact:
Alfons Balmann
Tel.: +345 2928-300
balmann(at)iamo.de

"SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems" SURE-Farm is a new Horizon 2020-project at IAMO. It encompasses 16 partners from 13 countries, led by the University of Wageningen. The aim of the four-year project is to evolve possibilities to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of EU agricultural systems and farms. SURE-Farm includes the development of a framework to measure determinants of resilience, the potential improvement of risk management strategies, the analysis of drivers of agricultural demography and the development of a tool to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the existing policy framework, in particular the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). IAMO has the lead for the work package "Farm demographics" that is related to simulate generational change by using the agent-based model AgriPoliS.

Contact:
Alfons Balmann
Tel.: +345 2928-300
balmann(at)iamo.de

 

IAMO is making an even greater impact in Central Asia. The research on agricultural restructuring, water scarcity, and the adaptation to climate change in the region accomplished in the AGRIWANET project is now complemented by the analysis of animal husbandry in Central Asia. The project "Revitalizing animal husbandry in Central Asia: A five-country analysis" (ANICANET) began 1 July 2017. ANICANET is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and administered with partners from the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. IAMO researchers Martin Petrick and Nodir Djanibekov aim to gain empirically founded insights into strategies stimulating the revitalization of livestock husbandry in the five Central Asian countries. After the collapse of Soviet livestock herds in the 1990s, all five countries struggled with finding a suitable development strategy for their livestock sectors. As in many transition and developing countries worldwide, increasing incomes of the urban population have stimulated demand for livestock products in the region.

A summer school within the framework of ANICANET will be held from 25 - 29 September 2017 at IAMO, Halle (Saale), Germany. The participants will learn more about quantitative analysis of animal husbandry in Central Asia. More information

Contact:
Martin Petrick
Tel.: +49 345 2928-120
petrick(at)iamo.de

 

The IAMO Forum 2018 "Large-scale agriculture – for profit and society?" and will be held from 27 – 29 June 2018 at IAMO in Halle (Saale), Germany. The deadline for submission of extended abstracts is 25 February 2018. Proposals for organized sessions are welcome until 28 January 2018. In recent decades, new agribusiness models have emerged in a number of transition, emerging, and developed economies. Their main characteristics include a very large size, sometimes exceeding one hundred thousand hectares of farmland, integration of multiple stages of production and processing, and presence of investors who often have no background in primary agriculture. The IAMO Forum 2018 provides a platform for research that investigates the economic, managerial, and social aspects of large-scale agriculture as well as institutional frameworks that enable the persistence of large agricultural enterprises. Extended abstracts can be submitted until 25 February, proposals for organized sessions until 28 January 2018. The conference’s geographical focus is particularly on the transition countries of Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and East Asia, as well as developed and emerging countries in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. For more information on the conference and the call for submissions see www.iamo.de/forum/2018. The conference is organized with support of the 2017 established "International Competence Center on Large Scale Agriculture" (LaScalA).

IAMO Forum 2018
Large-scale agriculture – for profit and society?
27 – 29 June 2018 | IAMO, Halle (Saale), Germany
www.iamo.de/forum/2018
#iamoForum18

Contact:
Franziska Schaft
Tel.: +49 345 2928-229
forum2018(at)iamo.de

 

IAMO and the All-Russian Institute for Agrarian Problems and Informatics (VIAPI) have organized a workshop entitled "Agricultural Policies in Russia: Insights from Economics and Political Economy." This event will take place on 25 October 2017 at the Moscow State University, Russia. The workshop provides a platform for researchers to share their work on how institutional and intergovernmental set-up, political processes, and fiscal factors may affect policy outcomes in agriculture. Registration for this workshop is open until 15 October 2017. More information

Workshop "Agricultural Policies in Russia: Insights from Economics and Political Economy"
25 October 2017 | Moscow State University, Russia
Registration

Contact:
Vasyl Kvartiuk
Tel.: +49 345 2928-128
kvartiuk(at)iamo.de

 

IAMO, in cooperation with the German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue (APD), the German Agribusiness Alliance of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA), and the German Agricultural Society (DLG), is hosting a panel discussion at the fair Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany on 14 November 2017. Topic to be discussed is "Potentials in Ukrainian agriculture – Visions for the Ukrainian agricultural economy." The Ukrainian government has progressed in many fields, including the agricultural sector, within the scope of the implementation of the EU-Ukraine association agreement. Crop production has shown stable development trends in recent years and Ukraine has become a leading exporter of agricultural commodities. Meanwhile, key reform projects remain on the agenda. The newly established central farmers association in Ukraine also will introduce itself at the event, and visions for sustainable development pathways in Ukrainian agriculture will be discussed. More information

Potentials in Ukrainian agriculture – Visions for the Ukrainian agricultural economy
In the scope of the Agritechnica 2017
14 November 2017 ǀ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Exhibition grounds Hanover ǀ Convention Center (CC), hall 3B, Germany
The admission ticket to the Agritechnica entitles visitors to participate. Prior registration via the APD (info(at)apd-ukraine.de) is requested for organizational reasons. The event will feature simultaneous interpretation (German/Ukrainian).

Contact:
Franziska Schaft
Tel.: +49 345 2928-229
schaft(at)iamo.de

 

On 11 and 12 September 2017, IAMO in cooperation with the Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness Club" (UCAB) hosted the kick-off meeting of the project partners of the "International Competence Center for Large-Scale Agriculture" (LaScalA) in Kyiv, Ukraine. The event was attended by 21 experts from the fields of science and business from Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Romania and Ukraine. Firstly, the challenges and specific questions of large-scale agricultural enterprises in the individual countries were presented. The participants discussed future research projects and co-operation opportunities. In specific, proposals for research on corporate social responsibilty of large-scale agricultural enterprises as well as approaches to measure and evaluate the economic performance of such companies were discussed. Via the newly launched website www.largescaleagriculture.com the knowledge and expertise about large-scale agriculture shall be bundled in the future. The site is an information platform for researchers, as well as for representatives from politics and practice.

Contact:
Taras Gagalyuk
Tel. +49 345 2928-326
gagalyuk(at)iamo.de

"The EU-Georgia Trade Agreement: The Impact on Agricultural Trade and Welfare" is the title of the most recent research results by IAMO Visiting Research Fellow Ulrich Koester, published in August 2017. September 2014 saw the signing of the so-called Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) between the European Union (EU) and Georgia. The agreement took effect two years later, enabling both partners to trade within the scope of the specified conditions. The aim is for the Georgian economy to gradually become integrated into that of Europe, bringing a higher degree of welfare to the country. The effects that this free trade agreement could have on agricultural and food products, their trade, and the living standards of the Georgian population are analyzed in IAMO Policy Brief 32. The publication also presents various measures for improving the adaptation of the agricultural sector and the food industry in Georgia and the new opportunities that will arise via the agreement.

The IAMO Policy Brief 32 is available in German and English. The publication can be viewed and downloaded for free at the following address: www.iamo.de/en/publications/iamo-policy-briefs.

Contact:
Ulrich Koester
Tel.: +49 431 880-4436
ukoester(at)ae.uni-kiel.de

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Osama Ahmed Naser El-Din from the University of Cairo, Egypt, will be a Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellow from 1 April 2018 at IAMO. He is one of 15 selected fellowship holders. In the meanwhile seventh round of the "Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowship" program, a total of 133 scientists from 40 countries of origin had applied. As of 1 January 2018, Osama Ahmed Naser El-Din will already work at IAMO as a fellow of the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Eastern Europe - Global Area" (EEGA) and will focus on "The impact of the international trade on grain market price in Egypt". At the IAMO Forum 2017, this June, he had already presented his research on the topic "Futures and spot prices nexus of Egyptian Wheat: multivariate volatility approach". At IAMO, he will work primarily with Linde Götz and colleagues from the Department of Agricultural Markets.

Contact:
Linde Götz
Tel.: +49 345 2928-327
goetz(at)iamo.de

 

What comes after the PhD and how diverse are the career options for newly qualified PhDs? These are the questions to be discussed with IAMO alumni in the newly established event series "IAMO Career Talks". Alumni Tina Engler and Kathrin Happe gave insights into their career paths at the opening event on 24 August 2017. Tina Engler now works as Business Mathematician at Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Kathrin Happe is now Deputy Director of the Department of Science – Policy – Society at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale), Germany. The "IAMO Career Talks" are open to the public and hosted in cooperation with the IAMO work group "Sustainability" and the IAMO-Alumni Association "Alumni des Leibniz-Institutes für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO) Halle" e.V..

Contact:
Franziska Appel
Tel.: +49 345 2928-117
appel(at)iamo.de

 

IAMO has been giving young people the opportunity for qualified dual vocational training in various administrative areas of the institute since 1997. In September 2014 Theresa Hensel started her traineeship in office management at IAMO. This August she successfully completed her vocational training and is now working in IAMO’s administrative department. On 1 September 2017 two new trainees started at the institute. Mara Kyritz will be trained in office management and Klemens Otto started a trainee position at IAMO’s library to become a media and information services specialist. In addition to high-quality training, the vocational training at IAMO focuses on team integration and working in an environment that is characterized by personal integrity, tolerance, and fairness in dealing with one another.

Contact:
Stephanie Garling
Tel.: +49 345 2928-400
garling(at)iamo.de

 

Vladislav Valentinov was awarded the title of the adjunct professor of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in August 2017. +++ Nominated by the Leibniz Association, the IAMO researchers Linde Götz and Judith Möllers were appointed as members of the network AcademiaNet. The database of profiles of excellent European female researchers from all disciplines was established in 2010 by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with Spektrum der Wissenschaft and is supported by many respected partners from academia and the business community. AcademiaNet aims to make excellent European female researchers more visible and more easily accessible to fill leadership positions and scientific bodies. +++ At the 57th Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture (GEWISOLA), 13 - 15 September 2017, GEWISOLA Best Paper Awards were received by Franziska Appel for her work on how the behavior of farmers influences the resilience of agricultural structures, as well as Linde Götz and Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani for their paper "Russia’s Agricultural Import Substitution Policy: Price Volatility Effects on the Pork Supply Chain". Miranda Svanidze received a GEWISOLA Best Presentation Award for her presentation "How Well is the Russian Wheat Market Functioning? A Comparison with the Corn Market in the USA". More information +++ IAMO PhD students Arjola Arapi-Gjini and Miranda Svanidze were among the 350 young economists to be selected to participate in the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Science. From 22 - 26 August 2017 they had the chance to meet 17 Nobel laureates, among them Bengt Holmström, Oliver Hart, and James Heckman, in Lindau at lake Bodensee, Germany. +++ On 14 July 2017 Lena Kuhn successfully defended her dissertation "The Brink of Poverty - Efficiency and effectiveness of targeted social assistance." Among other tasks she coordinates IAMO’s China International Research Group and is one of two managers of IAMO’s research domain "Livelihoods in rural areas". +++ On 17 July 2017 Aaron Grau successfully defended his dissertation "Market power in the German dairy supply chain." He now works at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, in the Department of Agricultural Economics. +++ In addition to the new IAMO trainees Mara Kyritz and Klemens Otto, we welcome PhD Student Ram Kamath, who joined IAMO in August 2017.

 

IAMO invites applications for a postdoc position within the DFG-funded project "Ethical issues in agricultural land markets." The project is part of the newly established research group "Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation" (FOR-Land). The application deadline is 30 September 2017. More information

Pension entitlements for mobile researchers in Europe. IAMO is listed on www.findyourpension.eu. The initiative aims to support people employed in the research (public) sector in navigating within the European pension landscapes and in dealing with their different pension claims.

 

all publications

IAMO Annual 2017 Download English | Download German

IAMO Policy Brief

Koester, U. (2017): Das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und Georgien: Auswirkungen auf Agrarhandel und Wohlfahrt, IAMO Policy Brief No. 32, Halle (Saale), Germany. Download Englisch | Download German

IAMO Discussion Papers

Esengazieva, S. (2017) Влияние несельскохозяйственного бизнеса на уровень занятости в сельской местности Южно-Казахстанской области. IAMO Discussion Paper No. 168, Halle (Saale), Germany. Download

Kerimova, U. (2017): Текущая роль производственных и обслуживающих кооперативов в сельском хозяйстве Южного Казахстана (Current role of production and service cooperatives in agriculture in southern Kazakhstan), IAMO Discussion Paper No. 167, Halle (Saale), Germany. Download

Möllers, J., Traikova, D., Herzfeld, T., Bajrami, E. (2017) Study on rural migration and return migration in Kosovo. IAMO Discussion Paper No. 166, Halle (Saale), Germany. Download

Wegmarshaus, G.-R. (2017): Uzbekistan’s higher education and research system: Main actors and recent reforms of doctoral graduation, IAMO Discussion Paper No. 165, Halle (Saale), Germany. Download

Ganiev, I., Djanibekov, N., Hasanov, S., Petrick, M. (2017): The state of doctoral research in Uzbekistan: Results of a survey of doctoral students in agricultural economics, IAMO Discussion Paper No. 164, Halle (Saale), Gemany. Download


Further seleceted publications

Benjamin, E., Buchenrieder, G. (2017): Credit risk and ecosystem services: A review of small-scale emission-certified agroforestry, in: Lehner, O. M. (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance, Chapter 35, Oxford, UK, S. 587-598.

Buchenrieder, G., Dufhues, T., Theesfeld, I., Munkung, N. (2017): Participatory local governance and cultural practices in Thailand, Cogent Social Sciences, No. 3, pp. 1-19. Download

Elferink, M., Schierhorn, F. (2017): Borderless Challenges, Global Policy, online, pp. 11-17.

Kopsidis, M., Ivanov, M. (2017): Was Gerschenkron Right? Bulgarian Agricultural Growth during the Interwar Period in Light of Modern Development Economics, Südost-Forschungen, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 44-72. Download

Möllers, J., Arapi-Gjini, A., Herzfeld, T., Xhema, S. (2017): Exit or voice? The recent drivers of Kosovar out-migration, International Migration, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 173-186. Download

Valentinov, Vladislav; Chatalova, Lioudmila (2016) Institutional economics and social dilemmas: a systems theory perspective. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 33 (1): 138-149. Download

Valentinov, Vladislav; Chatalova, Lioudmila (2016) Institutional Economics, Social Dilemmas, and the Complexity-Sustainability Trade-off. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 33 (3): 488-491. Download

Vorlaufer, T., Falk, T., Dufhues, T., Kirk, M. (2017): Payments for ecosystem services and agricultural intensification: Evidence from a choice experiment on deforestation in Zambia, Ecological Economics, Vol. 141, pp. 95-105. Download

 

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