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Supermarkets can save money by giving surplus food away

FOOD WASTE
Red deer in forest

Most Danes prefer forests with wild animals

REWILDING
Soy field in Brazil

New report on Danish soy imports and EU deforestation regulation

CLIMATE
Kirstine Lund Christiansen

Kirstine Lund Christiansen wins the SCIENCE PhD Award

Wusheng, Mette, Francesco, Zhan

International Consortium to transform CO₂ into food

Cow

Dangerous variant of salmonella still not eradicated

Per Svejstrup

New Head of Department at IFRO: “Professionalism and community go hand in hand”

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  • Planning: management cycles and implications for industrial permits
  • Water and agricultural pollution
  • Land property rights and household welfare: Evidence from rural China
  • Multi-scalar legitimation dynamics in sectoral reconfigurations: The case of aquaculture in Norway
  • A pilot study on the effect of feed supplementation with magnesium oxide and magnesium aspartate on blood magnesium content and tail lesions in pigs under practical on-farm conditions
  • Shifting the reference point in environmental regulation: from polluter-pays to beneficiaries-compensate
  • A guide to navigating the complexities of quantitative trade-off analysis
  • Capabilities and practices: performing ‘proper’ food practices from a deprived social position
  • Passive versus active afforestation of agricultural land: Two decades of impacts on tree biomass and ecosystem carbon storage
  • Sygdom er fraværende i den offentlige debat om den grønne omstilling af det danske husdyrbrug
  • Vulnerability trade-offs and externalities of an ‘effective’ adaptation programme: why assessing adaptation effectiveness needs to consider the perceptions of target populations
  • Unearthing heterogeneity in readiness and resistance to sustainable change and carbon footprints in organisations
  • Understanding Nutrient - Contaminant Tradeoffs in fish consumer preferences: Evidence from Kenya

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food
2026.04.21

Less food waste: Supermarkets can save money by giving surplus food away

When supermarkets choose the right strategy for surplus food, they can both reduce food waste and…
Rewilding
2025.11.12

Wild animals divide Danes – but most say “yes” to red deer and fences

A new nationwide survey from the University of Copenhagen shows that most Danes would like to see…
GEOPOLITICS
2025.11.11

UCPH combines forces to enhance the understanding of world crises

The initiative aims to contribute to a more informed public conversation about a rapidly changing…
CLIMATE
2025.09.29

New report on Danish soy imports and EU deforestation regulation

Researchers from the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) highlights key challenges in…

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Temperature Shocks and Dietary Quality

Open online seminar with Bezawit Bahru, University of Hohenheim.

Equality Until Scarcity: How Needs Shape Water Allocation Decisions - Experimental Evidence from La Guajira, Colombia

Open seminar with Juliane Koch, Lund University.

Biodiversity Finance Preferences Require a Strong State

Open online seminar with Nils Droste, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

Which Price Metric Matters More in Food Demand?

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

Title to be announced

Open online seminar with Saraly Andrade de Sá, Department of Food and Resource Economics.

Optimal Regulation of an Age-Structured Animal Population

Open online seminar with Frank Jensen, 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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