Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics

Research Focus

Our fields of research are:

• Business management of farms and forests, tax law
• Economic documentation systems for the forestry sector (forest accounts, European Forest Accounts, natural asset accounting)
• Sustainable agriculture and forestry (balance between economy, ecology and social issues): Environmental and social benefits of agriculture (public goods, ecosystem services, animal welfare); organic farming, circular economy and renewable energies (renewable raw materials, (agri-)photovoltaics, wind power on agricultural land)
• Resilience of family farms