The European agricultural sectors and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) face the triple challenge of productivity increase to meet increasing demands for food, fibre and energy, pressing public policy issues regarding public health and nutrition and the public good components of agricultural...

New Plant Breeding Technologies (NPBTs), including CRISPR gene editing, are being widely used and drive the development of new crops. However, these new technologies are not undisputed, creating uncertainty in how applications of these technologies for agricultural and food uses will be...

German Abstract: Seit Anfang 2015 beschäftigen sich im Kanzleramt Verhaltensforscher mit der Frage, wie „wirksam Regieren“ aussehen und gelingen kann. Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit den Hintergründen dieser neuen Strategie auseinander, mit den möglichen Konsequenzen für die...

Compliance with private standards is rapidly becoming the decisive factor distinguishing inclusion and exclusion from the market for agricultural producers. If Africa would manage to increase its total exports by just 1%, this would make an impact surpassing the entire western development aid....