Department of Agricultural Economics UGent

From today onwards you can find us on LinkedIn! Make sure to follow us there to keep in touch with our work. We will stay here on X too. linkedin.com/company/depart…

🚜Pleidooi voor meer landbouwstages in het onderwijs!🌾 @RubenSavels, PhD-student aan onze faculteit, pleit voor een bredere aanpak in landbouwonderwijs. Volgens hem wordt de kloof tussen landbouw en natuur al op de schoolbanken gecreëerd. 👉tinyurl.com/3ccyadn8 @ugent

Wist je dat de Vlaamse sector van vleesvervangers en plantaardige eiwitten booming is? @jj_schouteten, professor aan onze faculteit én expert in alternatieve eiwitten, geeft inzicht in de groei van deze sector en wijst op de uitdagingen én kansen. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024…

<<🎓#PhD opportunity>>Passionate about improving public health? We are looking for a doctoral researcher to map and address the #commercial drivers of #tobacco🚬 #alcohol🍷#unhealthyfood🍟 consumption in #Belgium! @sciensano + @AgEconUGent jobs.sciensano.be/content/jobpag… (By 25th Sept)

Many of our colleagues are often working abroad for field work, lecturing and conferences. But since we managed to get many together during our annual summer activity, we couldn't help but try to take a Department of Agricultural Economics Family Photo! @FbwUGent @ugent

Blij dat ons onderzoek naar de agro-ecologische prestatie en duurzaamheid van Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Vlaanderen ook de weg heeft gevonden naar de vakpers! @CsaNetwerk @VoedselAndersVL @JDessein @AgEconUGent @FbwUGent

Stakeholders’ evaluation of tissue culture #plants: evidence from #social, #economic, and #agronomic studies. To read this new #review article in JHSB, visit: buff.ly/4byj1Bn #TissueCulture #micropropagation #invitro #biotechnology @AgEconUGent

Excited to share that my first paper, titled 'Assessing the agroecological performance and sustainability of Community Supported Agriculture farms in Flanders, Belgium', has been published! Together with @JDessein, @LucantoniDario and Stijn Speelman. @AgEconUGent @FbwUGent @FAO

PhD researcher Margo Degieter presented a study on the economic feasibility of tempeh powder production from different substrates (fava bean, chickpea, quinoa, lentils) at the closing SmartProtein project (EC-H2020) at the Proveg conference in Berlin! smartproteinproject.eu

Had an amazing time teaching the course Environmental Law and Management with prof. em. Guido Van Huylenbroeck at the Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon, South Korea. And when all the way in South Korea, one cannot but explore the country! @AgEconUGent @FbwUGent @ugent

Our professors Hans De Steur and @ChristineYHung were recently invited to teach on consumer behaviour and food economics during the Spring School at Quy Nhon University in Viet Nam within the context of an Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) with @ugent through @VLIRUOS!

A full auditorium for the guest lecture titled 'Climate Change and International Negotiations: Why and How?'. After a crash course on climate change science, we delved into the topic of negotiations on the international level and how past agreements were made in the IPCC.

Honoured to invite you to the guest lecture of @JPvanYpersele, organized within our courses 'Economics and Management of Natural Resources' and 'Sustainability and Environmental Economics' on Monday, March 18th at 10:30 in Auditorium E3 on Campus Coupure, Ghent. @AgEconUGent

Yesterday we attended the Francqui Chair inaugural lecture @UAntwerpen of our very own Wim Verbeke, professor of agri-food marketing and consumer behaviour, titled "A quarter century of protein transition: insights from agri-food marketing and consumer research" @FbwUGent @ugent

For our New Year's activity, we immersed our colleagues in the typical Belgian pastime that is a quiz, testing knowledge on international, Belgian, Ghentian and work-related facts, accompanied with a variety of cheeses, wines, beers and ciders. What a great evening!

Now that it's official... I'm excited to share our newly awarded 2-year grant for our project on food upcycling! I look forward to working with vegetable post-harvest losses in the Salad Bowl region of the Philippines. 🧵🥕🌱 @AgEconUGent @SLUph #phdvoice #AcademicChatter

@World_FoodForum Check out their Instagram account too: instagram.com/youth_for_sust…. Interested in nutrition, food systems and sustainability? Take a look at our master programme: ugent.be/bw/en/educatio…

Students of the MSc in Nutrition and Food Systems at our faculty are organizing a side event at the @World_FoodForum, aimed at encouraging youth to fight climate change by transforming the present agri-food systems. More information can be found at flagship.world-food-forum.org/2023/en

‼️New paper in scope of the @welaserproject "European stakeholders’ perspectives on implementation potential of precision weed control: the case of autonomous vehicles with laser treatment" 🌱⚡️@AgEconUGent link.springer.com/article/10.100…