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The reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, new trade agreements, global trends: How may these factors influence the German agriculture? A newly released study of the Thünen Institute models various data and gives a projection of the expected trends within the next 20 years. The Thünen Baseline…

In the framework of the research project Agriculturally Relevant Extreme Weather Situations and Possibilities for Risk Management, the Thünen Institute for Rural Areas organized a conference on May 13, 2014.

In a hearing of the Committee on Food and Agriculture of the German Bundestag in Berlin on April 7th, 2014 the president of the Thünen Institute, Folkhard Isermeyer, explained the analysis of the Institute concerning the design of the „Greening“ within the framework of the reform of the Common…

Farmers as energy farmers: As to the Renewable Energy Sources Act especially sparsely populated rural counties receive considerably more payments per inhabitant for renewable energy than cities. This is one core result of a recent study of the Thünen-Institute.