16 December 2015
ScienceCampus Halle - plant-based bioeconomy (WCH) honoured as "Most Innovative Alliance"
The ScienceCampus Halle - plant-based bioeconomy (WCH) has been awarded the Hugo Junkers Award for Research and Innovation from Saxony-Anhalt 2015. In the Ständehaus Merseburg handed Hartmut Möllring, Minister of Sciences and Economic Affairs of the...
27 October 2015
IAMO publication were honored with GEWISOLA Award and Best Paper Award
During this year’s GEWISOLA conference ( 23 – 25 September) the Society for Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture e.V. honored two IAMO contributions. Firstly, agricultural economist Dr. Swetlana Renner received the GEWISOLA Award for her...
14 October 2015
Lively debates at the parliamentary evening “Competitiveness: EU research project COMPETE“
On 29 September 2015, the COMPETE team discussed and debated the results of three years of research during the parliamentary evening "Competitiveness: EU research project COMPETE" in Berlin. The event was hosted by the Federation of German Food and Drink Industries (BVE), a partner within the...
After the welcoming address by Christoph Minhoff, Managing Director of BVE, Prof. Dr. Thomas Glauben, Director of the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), presented the main findings of three years of...
09 October 2015
Social Science Paper honoured with Thyssen Prize
IAMO researcher Michael Kopsidis has been awarded with the 2014 third prize of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the best social science paper in German for his article "Peasant Agriculture and Economic Growth: The Case of Southeast Europe c....
22 September 2015
IAMO summer school in Kazakhstan educates and links young scientists from Central Asia
Within the research project „Agricultural Restructuring, Water Scarcity and the Adaptation to Climate Change in Central Asia (AGRIWANET)“ supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), IAMO carried out a summer school for 25...
13 August 2015
Joint organized symposium by IAMO and IFPRI at 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE)
IAMO and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) organized a session entitled "Food Security and Food Self-sufficiency in Central Asia" as part of the 29th ICAE in Milan, Italy.
The landlocked Central Asian region comprises five post-Soviet countries characterized by great heterogeneity: energy endowments, market sizes, income levels, industrial- and agricultural structures differ a lot, as do infrastructures. The incomes of...
29 July 2015
Country case studies on skilled agricultural workers from Russia and Bulgaria
IAMO researchers Vasyl Kvartiuk and Diana Traikova published their current research results entitled “Eastern Europe as a source of skilled agricultural workers in Germany?” in July, 2015. One case study is focusing on Russia, one on Bulgaria.
The papers examine the migration potential of skilled agricultural workers from those countries in order to counteract the increasing deficit of qualified farmers in the East German federal states. An evaluation of several interviews with experts and...
17 June 2015
Joint organized session by IAMO and IWMI at the IAMO Forum 2015
IAMO and International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Central Asia office organized a session entitled "Climate change, water resources and agricultural development in Central Asia" as part of the IAMO Forum 2015, Halle (Saale) Germany.
The overall objective of the proposed session was to present and discuss research findings on issues of the Central Asian water and agricultural development by country- and region-specific experiences and lessons. The session comprised four...