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Pork remains the number one export
Dezember 04, 2024
Fact sheets on livestock farming: Thünen Institute presents the latest facts and figures on production, consumption and exports of pigs, cattle and poultry.
In a joint paper with the ILS – Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, now published in the Journal of Rural Studies, Annett Steinführer, Aura Moldovan, and Joachim Kreis analyse how internal migration patterns in Germany have changed and which reasons are decisive move to rural…
Reducing food waste together: Leading agricultural scientists are also meeting on the margins of the G20 summit to develop strategies against food waste, for example. Support comes from the Thünen Institute.
Increasing drought is threatening harvests, even in our latitudes. Where will plants get water to grow and thrive in the future? From the subsoil, for example. Unused water and nutrient reserves lie dormant there.
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Moradi M, Fami HS, Barati AA, Schneider F, Mohammadi RS, Aramyan LH (2025) Leveraging contract farming to reduce leafy vegetable waste: a system dynamics approach from Kermanshah province of Iran. Cogent Food & Agriculture 11(1):2443270, DOI:10.1080/23311932.2024.2443270
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Wang Y, Rammig A, Blickensdörfer L, Wang Y, Zhu XX, Buras A (2025) Species-specific responses of canopy greenness to the extreme droughts of 2018 and 2022 for four abundant tree species in Germany. Sci Total Environ 958:177938, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177938
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Axer M, Schlicht R, Blickensdörfer L (2025) Quantile regression for estimating Douglas-fir natural regeneration potential using the R package quaxnat: Advanced ecological modeling for the management of nature conservation and silviculture. Ecol Model 501:110968, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110968
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Anders T, Hetzer J, Knapp N, Forrest M, Langan L, Tölle MH, Wellbrock N, Hickler T (2025) Modelling past and future impacts of droughts on tree mortality and carbon storage in Norway spruce stands in Germany. Ecol Model 501:110987, DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110987
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Gava O, Vanni F, Schwarz G, Guisepelli E, Vincent A, Prazan J, Weisshaidinger R, Frick R, Hrabalová A, Carolus J, Iragui Yoldi U, Pyysiäinen J, Smyrniotopoulou A, Vlahos G, Balazs K, Szilágyi AJ, Jegelevicius G, Miksyte E, Zilans A, Fratila M, et al (2025) Governance networks for agroecology transitions in rural Europe. J Rural Studies 114:103482, DOI:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103482
