Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist die gesamtwirtschaftliche Profitabilität der Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung in Deutschland. Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist die Entwicklung der totalen Faktorproduktivität in Deutschland. Diese wurde mit Hilfe eines Indexzahlenansatzes dekomponiert in die Einflüsse...

We analyze the economic effects of plant breeding research in Germany. In addition to market effects, for the first time also effects of reduced CO2 emissions due to productivity increases are being quantified. The analysis shows that investments in German plant breeding research in the period...

Purpose The global demand for agricultural commodities may more than double in the second half of the twenty-first century. It has been suggested that rapidly growing world needs in food and agriculture can be met by expanding the acreage or cultivation of existing farmland. Because available...

Integrated Assessment studies have shown that meeting ambitious greenhouse gas mitigation targets will require substantial amounts of bioenergy as part of the future energy mix. In the course of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), five global agro-economic...

Recent studies assessing plausible futures for agricultural markets and global food security have had contradictory outcomes. To advance our understanding of the sources of the differences, 10 global economic models that produce long-term scenarios were asked to compare a reference scenario with...