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VAT adjustments could save 170,000 lives a year in Europe

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Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software

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The myth of junkfood-eating gamers is actually about social hunger – and gender

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Guilty? Ashamed? Emotions reveal how much we care about the environment

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  • Biodiversity credits: An overview of the current state, future opportunities, and potential pitfalls
  • Living with elephants: A case study from Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Zimbabwe
  • The role of perceptions in adoption of cricket farming for improved food security and livelihoods
  • The current state of knowledge of the economic impact of diseases in global aquaculture
  • Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding
  • Optimizing successive incentives: Rewarding the past or motivating the future?
  • Livelihood commercialisation and resource use across the border: Explaining environmental income differences in northern Laos and Vietnam
  • Public perceptions of biodiversity and the value of its conservation
  • Enhancing cost efficiency estimates with trade-offs for improved reallocation processes
  • Regulatory state capacity for accelerating net-zero transitions: Lessons learned from governing electricity storage in Germany

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SUSTAINABILITY
2025.05.27

Green transition to be “the new normal” for future farmers

The FEAST research project has received DKK 4.75 million from Innovation Fund Denmark, AgriFoodTure…
Grant
2025.04.09

The effect of the Green Tripartite to be analysed

A new research project will investigate the economic, environmental and climate effects of the…
FOOD
2025.02.27

VAT adjustments could save 170,000 lives a year in Europe

170,000 deaths a year could be avoided if European countries were to increase value-added tax (VAT)…
plagiarism
2024.12.16

Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software

In a new study around half of the high school and university students from seven European countries…

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PhD defence - Dossou Ghislain Boris Aihounton

Organic and Conventional Farming and Household Welfare in Benin: Health, Food Security and Happiness

How to Build a Good Friendship?

Open online seminar with Ayoe Hoff, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

The Role of Intellectual Property Rights for Sustainable Innovation: The Case of Patents in Plant Breeding

Open online seminar with Gergana Romanova, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

Explaining People’s Choices for the Rewilding of Landscapes Using the Value Perspective for Nature Scale

Open online seminar with Tim Maarten de Kruiff, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

Ester Boserup Prize 2025

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Arturo Escobar will receive the Ester Boserup Prize 2025 and give a lecture entitled 'Encountering Development'.

Preferences as Heuristics

Open seminar with Alexandros Rigos, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

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Department of Food and Resource Economics
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Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C
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Tel: +45 3533 6800

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