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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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  • Fair by chance? On the use of algorithms in therapeutic decisions
  • Impact of climate change and adaptation strategy in aquaculture: a systematic review
  • Domesticating technology: Sociotechnical imaginaries of carbon capture and storage in Denmark
  • Understanding the behavioral factors influencing farmers' future adoption of climate-smart agriculture: A multi-group analysis
  • Capturing context: A sociotechnical feasibility assessment of carbon capture and storage in Norwegian waste incineration
  • Pushing the limits to participation in Argentina’s protected areas
  • Playing Jesus to save species: A virtue ethics approach to biotech de-extinction projects
  • Assembling for water: The prefigurative politics of land futures in Argentina
  • Fermenting shea nuts using the traditional pit method yields better physicochemical properties with potential environmental benefits
  • High bar for change: uncertainty source preferences in the choice of adapting agricultural practices

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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…
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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)…
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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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Smart Contracts and Reaction Function Games

Open online seminar with Jens Leth Hougaard, Department of Food and Resource Economics

Winning the fight against food loss and waste

Join the conference on June 10th to help win the fight against food loss and waste! Don't forget to sign up.

Crowdfunding of Organic Farming

Open online seminar with Jens Abildtrup, INRAE, France

Are Front-of-Pack Labels Effective Policy Tools? Insights from Economic Theory and Evidence

Open online seminar with Magnus Munk Bjerg, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

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.

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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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