PhD in Economics of Native Species Production and Rural Development in the Cerrado Wageningen University & Research in Netherlands

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a fully funded PhD on impact evaluation of climate policies in agricultural and forest landscapes . The project is part of the EU-Horizon initiative PolicyForClimate and focuses on how climate mitigation and adaptation policies affect land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and biodiversity in agriculture and forestry. The PhD will be based at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FNP) at Wageningen University, with joint supervision by Dr. ...

PhD opportunity at Utrecht University in Spatial Optimization of Land Use in Brazil , based in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning within the Faculty of Geosciences . This PhD is part of the project Frontiers of MATOPIBA landscapes , which studies how agricultural production and biodiversity conservation can be balanced in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region under future climate and socio-economic conditions. The project focuses on land use, spatial optimization, Pareto frontiers, uncert...

Postdoctoral research position at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (DARE), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. The project, led by Prof. Liesbeth Colen, examines how historical institutions shaped rural markets and economic and nutritional outcomes and inequalities in modern India. The topic centers on colonial legacies, land inequality, the cooperative movement, and market interactions, with a specific focus on Punjab’s cooperative dairy sector. The succes...

Agroscope is advertising a postdoctoral researcher position in Wädenswil, Switzerland on the topic of metabolites of pesticides in groundwater . The role sits in the research group Plant Protection Products – Effects and Assessment , which combines expertise in plant protection products, their environmental behavior, and assessment methods. The project focuses on processing monitoring data on pesticide metabolites in groundwater, compiling Predicted Environmental Concentrations (PEC) from the Eu...

The University of Helsinki’s Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics . The position is based in the Agricultural Economics research group at the Viikki campus in Helsinki, Finland, and is part of the research project Intergenerational Transitions in the Nordics (NEXT) . The project is funded by the Peter Wallenberg Foundation and is led by Professor Lucia Naldi (Jönköping University) and Prof...