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International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance

Welcome to the section of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance”

If you are interested in research and teaching on European and International Agricultural and Environmental Policy and Governance and a critical evaluation of its impacts on regional and local social-ecological food systems and the natural environment then you visited the right place. In order to address these topics under the overarching frame of Ecological Economics we use institutional economics and political science approaches as well as approaches drawing on critical geography. Current research foci are:

Sub­stan­ce

Agricultural and Environmental Policy and Governance in Europe, the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa) and East Africa with specific consideration of the following themes:
• Water and biodiversity management
• Agroecology, transformation and organic farming
• Land use change
• Circular economy

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Quantitative and qualitative methods as part of different research designs

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We are developing the concepts of polycentric governance and political agroecology for the analysis and transformation of governance of agricultural, environmental and food systems

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