Ulrich Morawetz and Christoph Tribl

Our article “Randomised Controlled Trials for the Evaluation of the CAP: Empirical Evidence about Acceptance by Farmers” has been published in the latest issue of the “German Journal of Agricultural Economics”. We discuss how a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) could be used to evaluate agri-environment-climate measures of the CAP. Our empirical results are based on a survey among Austrian farmers who have participated in the measure “Refrain from Silage”.

The article is available from the Journal’s webpage https://doi.org/10.30430/69.2020.3.183-199.

Heidi Leonhardt

Im Rahmen der DFG Forschergruppe FORLand, die sich mit landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmärkten befasst, wurden nun erste Ergebnisse des an der BOKU beheimateten Unterprojekts „Understanding farmers’ land use behaviour under different institutional settings“ veröffentlicht. In einem ersten Schritt ging es hier darum, Unterschiede in der Bewirtschaftung zwischen Pacht- und Eigentumsflächen in Österreich zu erheben.

Neuerscheinung GEWISOLA-ÖGA Tagungsband

Ulrich Morawetz and Brian Ssebunya

Coffee with “Fair Trade” or “Organic” labels is well known to all coffee drinkers. The discussion whether the labels can achieve their intended goals has been surveyed in leading economic journals. The results with regard to the coffee certification on income are diverse and contradicting. We confirm this finding in our new article (Ssebunya et al., in press): ...