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FRIES Seminar Series
Food System Geography, Policy & Economics
ABOUT
The FRIES seminar series is a joint initiative aimed at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond the Institute for Environmental Decisions at ETH Zurich. We discuss current advances in the field of ‘Food system geogRaphy polIcy & EconomicS’ (FRIES), and the seminars are open to anyone interested in the topics. Lead participants are the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group (D-MTEC and D-USYS) and the Food System Economics and Policy Group (D-USYS), other guest speakers. Seminars usually last one hour.
FRIES are either live and/or virtual seminars that usually take place on Wednesdays at 16.00. If in person, they are held at SOL B4. Talks last 30 min, and discussions follow for another 30 min. Please see the schedule below for upcoming talks.
Please note that if the seminar is available on Zoom, a link to the session will be provided in the registration email and published below shortly before the seminar.
NexT SEMinar
Conditional Subsidies and Political Backlash in the Green Transition
By Giorgio Malet
April 27, 16:00-17:00
SOL B 4, Sonnegstrasse 33, ETH Zurich
and Zoom
Date (Time) | Presenter | Institute | Location | Link | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2026-04-27 16:00-17:00 | Giorgio Malet | ETH Zürich | SOL B4 | https://ethz.zoom.us/j/66232820267 | Conditional Subsidies and Political Backlash in the Green Transition |
2026-05-05 16:00-17:00 | Franziska Jäckel | University of Passau | SOL B4 | https://ethz.zoom.us/meeting/register/O71eKSX_QKyntr46twsaew | Immediate or certain payments? Evidence from a
framed field experiment on carbon farming in Ghana |
2026-05-27 16:30-17:30 | Eva Iglesias | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | SOL B4 | https://ethz.zoom.us/j/65405240522 | Enhancing drought resilience: An index insurance scheme for West African pastoralists? |
2026-07-08 16:00-17:00 | Jonas Schmitt | ETH Zürich | SOL B4 | https://ethz.zoom.us/j/68526027141 | Drought and heat risk in a changing climate under consideration of flexible phenological phases |
2026-07-20 16:00-17:00 | Sophie Henrotte | UC Louvain | SOL B4 | https://ethz.zoom.us/meeting/register/Em-yZIBITayYtmT5xRJIQw | TBD |
Future Seminars
Date | Presenter | Institution |
|---|---|---|
2025-30-09 | Zander Venter, Viviane Fahrni, Robert Huber | |
2025-09-24 | Robert Finger, Yi Wang, Nicolas Alou
Julia Kunkel, Sophie Harzer, Birgit Müller | |
2025-08-06 | Bignon William Tossou | University of Bonn |
2025-07-30 | Karl Storchmann | University of New York |
2025-06-03 | Young Kim | Department of Economics - Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery University of Oxford |
2025-04-30 | Anne Dietrich | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) |
2025-04-07 | Robert Finger, Juhlia Höhler, Carola Grebitus, Arne Henningsen, Robert Huber and Jens Rommel | |
2025-04-07 | Martina Bozzola | FiBL Switzerland, Department of Food System Sciences and Queen's University Belfast |
2025-04-03 | Julia Kunkel | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ |
2025-03-26 | Justice Tambo | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) |
2025-03-19 | Martina Occelli | Cornell University |
2024-11-04 | Niklas Möhring | University of Bonn |
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