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Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Balance Methods as Practice-applicable Tools for Environmental Impact Assessment and Farm Management Support (SOMpatic)

Date: 
20/11/2013
Excerpt: 
An international workshop on the evaluation of soil organic matter balance methods (SOM balances) will take place on 20-22 November, 2013 in Giessen, Germany.

Environment and the Law: Popular Struggles, Epidemiology and Resistance

Date: 
03/09/2013
Excerpt: 
The organisers of the RCSL Congress 2013 "Environment and the Law: Popular Struggles, Epidemiology and Resistance", which will take place from 3-6 September, 2013 in Toulouse, France, are calling for papers to be submitted by 1 February, 2013.
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Senior Researcher Position in Agricultural Development

Date: 
15/06/2013
Excerpt: 
The Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany is looking for a Senior Researcher or Post-Doc in Agricultural Development.
funding

Farm Type Effects of an EU-wide Direct Payment Harmonisation

Date: 
27/03/2013
Excerpt: 
In this study, the authors analyse how three scenarios involving different levels of harmonisation of common agricultural policy (CAP) decoupled payments in the EU affect the distribution of farm income across regions and farm types. They use the farm type extension of the common agricultural policy impact (CAPRI) model. ...
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An Integrated Modelling Platform for Agro-economic Commodity and Policy Analysis (iMAP) - A Look Back and the Way Forward

Date: 
26/03/2013
Excerpt: 
This report describes the rationale and performance of the integrated Modelling Platform for Agroeconomic Commodity and Policy Analysis (iMAP), hosted by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies in Seville.
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IA Tools Applied to Impact Assessment of EU Policies in Agriculture and Environment

Date: 
13/02/2013
Excerpt: 
This paper by B. Manos, Th. Bournaris, Ch. Moulogianni and S. Arampatzis aims to provide a review of the IA tools applied for the assessment of the EU policies in agriculture and environment, to analyse and to classify them by different criteria according to the policy that they have been applied to and by the impacts that they have been measured.
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OECD Discloses Impact Assessment Studies

Date: 
17/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The OECD has just disclosed the results of two studies on impact assessments that have been conducted by the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at FU Berlin.
news

Postdoc Position in "Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development"

Date: 
27/12/2012
Excerpt: 
The Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim is inviting applications for a Postdoc position in the research area "Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development".
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Post-Graduate Course: The Art of Crop Modelling, Quantifying Crop Growth in Face of Global Food Security and Climate Effects

Date: 
21/12/2012
Excerpt: 
This course teaches the principles of crop growth modelling for early career researchers. Crop models allow to simulate the growth and development of annual and perennials crops, often in interaction with the environment (i.e. soil, nitrogen, water, air). Many different models are available, a recent inventory lead to a total of 250.
training

Assessment of N and P Status at the Landscape Scale Using Environmental Models and Measurements

Date: 
17/12/2012
Excerpt: 
The paper assesses the compliance of a Dutch landscape, dominated by dairy farming, with environmental quality standards using a combination of model calculations and mesurements.
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