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New Thünen Institute to be established in Höxter / Christian Hundt appointed institute director

More than 20 young researchers from all over Germany participated in the PhD Workshop Rural Studies 2021 on September 8 and 9, 2021. The PhD students exchanged ideas on current qualitative research approaches on the topic of "everyday life and tensions in rural areas".

The team of the STAYin(g)Rural international research project at the Thünen Institute for Rural Studies mourns the loss of its colleague Prof. Aileen Stockdale (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland). Aileen died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 27, 2021 at the age of 56.

The 11th summer conference of the German-speaking section (GfR) of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) takes place at 1 and 2 July 2021. Submissions are welcome until 28 February 2021.

Joint appointment between the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Leibniz University Hannover

Together with the journal "Sustainability", the Thünen Institute is working on a special issue on the subject of food waste. In terms of content, it is primarily concerned with national strategies for the prevention and monitoring of food waste.

The 59th Annual Conference of the German Society of Economic and Social Sciences in Agriculture (GEWISOLA) will be held from Wednesday, 25 September to Friday 27 September 2019 at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig (Germany). The local organizers are the Thünen Institutes of Farm Economics, of…

In the next three years, Andreas Klärner and Annett Steinführer will head a research project on social disadvantage in rural peripheries.

New publication of Patrick Küpper, Stefan Kundolf, Tobias Mettenberger and Gesine Tuitjer

The CAOS project and the University of Uppsala host the International Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture on Organic Soils from 23-24 November 2017 at Uppsala, Sweden.