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In the APCC Special Report on Land Use and Climate Change in Austria, the current state of knowledge was systematically reviewed, summarized and evaluated. An open process was developed and pursued that enabled the entire Austrian community...
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ project UniClaD ("Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and to participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles ") a series of study tours to EU countries are carried out with the aim to support the consortium partners in the development of agrofood clusters in Moldova, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. From March 27 to 31, 2023, a study tour was conducted in Austria, organized by the Federal Institute of Agricultural...
The contribution of Theresia Oedl-Wieser dealt with the empowerment of women in a high mountain region in Georgia or results of community-led local development initiatives. Among other things, it was shown that many local activities are based on long-term socio-cultural processes that require a deep awareness of site-specific conditions and sufficient time for the development of adapted measures. The presentation of Th. Oedl-Wieser starts at minute 52:26 and can be accessed at the following...
The Erasmus+ Project "Strengthening Social Capital in Rural Communities for Rural Development" aims to elaborate and communicate the topic of social capital for extension workers for rural development processes in Turkey https://www.utemooc.org/. The training materials and short videos about the eight study regions in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Turkey, are accessible for extension workers - following the principle of train the trainer - as well as for the residents in rural regions of...
As part of the k.i.d.Z.21 project, a researcher's week was held at the beginning of July for second grade students at the Radstadt secondary school. They were able to acquire competencies in adaptation strategies and action skills in dealing with climate change. The young people were allowed to conduct their own research and were supported by experts in the fields of tourism, glaciers, botany and environmental ethics. BAB staff member Heidi Grüneis accompanied the children on the topic of...
From July 3-5, 2023, the Congress of the Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS) took place at WU Vienna under the title "Critical Times". More than 300 exciting lectures in over 100 events, including keynotes, plenaries, ad hoc groups, section events and special events offered a rich program for the visitors. The BAB was involved in the organization of two section events (cooperation of the Urban Research and Rural Social Research sections of ÖGS): - Conceptual (De-)Constructions of the...
From 3 - 7 July 2023, the European Congress of Rural Sociology of the ESRS (European Society for Rural Sociology) took place in Rennes, France, dedicated to the issues of "Crises and Futures of Rural Areas". https://esrs2023.institut-agro-rennes-angers.fr/ With 32 working groups as well as various excursions and side events, the approximately 400 participants were offered an extensive and varied programme. The BAB was involved in the organisation of three working groups: WG 4 - The Role of...
The GI Forum Salzburg is a major annual conference in the field of geoinformatics, GIS and information technology. The event provides a platform for scientists, industry experts and professionals to exchange ideas, research results and experiences. The main topics of this event were the challenges of the advancing climate change, future-oriented mobility as well as open source tools and open (government) data. The BAB's contribution is also to be found in the latter area. Lena Mitterhuber...
Three times a year an inter-agency GIS Jour fixe takes place in the agricultural sector to maintain a permanent exchange of knowledge, initiate and coordinate projects for all topics with direct or indirect spatial reference. Host for the date from 19. to 20.06.2023 was the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. It was possible to participate both physically on site and via Zoom. BAB was represented on site by five people. Topics discussed included geospatial base data, REST GDI agriculture, land use...
The 3rd Caucasus Mountain Forum on "Transdiciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development: Role of Caucasus Scientists" took place in Kutaisi, Georgia, from 4-6 July 2023. It was complemented by a field trip to the mountain region of Svaneti, which showed participants the specific challenges and opportunities of sustainable mountain development. Thomas Dax, who together with Theresia Oedl-Wieser has recently provided expertise on the implementation of local development initiatives in...
In July, the third meeting of the Erasmus+ project "CoRoots" ("Communicating roots: co-learning to improve rural resilience and governance") took place. This time, 2 colleagues from BAB and 5 participants from Spain travelled to Covilhã, Portugal, to see social innovation projects in rural areas on the ground. As an introduction, the hosts PRIP (Prout Research Institute) and the Universidade Beira Interior presented their theoretical and methodological approaches at the university in...
Director Thomas Resl has left the Federal Institute of Agriculture and Mining for the private sector as of 31 August 2023. Until a new director is appointed, his deputy Thomas Dax is in charge.
In the framework of the project CoRoots (Co-learning methods to improve resilience management in rural areas) the project meeting with Spanish and Portuguese project partners took place this time in Soria (Central Spain). The region is characterised by migration and is very sparsely populated. On the barren soils of the cold plateau, the landscape is characterised by hat pastures and barley fields (for beer production). Cives Mundi - our Spanish project partner - is an NGO dedicated to...
DI. Dr. Martin SCHÖNHART was appointed Director of the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research on January 8, 2024.
Im Rahmen der Gleichstellungswoche 2021 des Europäischen Parlaments fand in der letzten Oktoberwoche 2021 auf Initiative des Ausschusses für Landwirtschaft und ländliche Entwicklung eine öffentliche Anhörung zum Thema "Frauen auf dem Lande - eine akademische und bäuerliche Perspektive" statt, um die Rolle der Frauen im ländlichen Raum zu beleuchten. Dazu wurden zwei Expertinnen und Buchautorinnen – Theresia Oedl-Wieser und Céline Berthier – eingeladen, um ihre Erfahrungen und...
Erika Quendler participated in the ShapingBio workshop on April 18, 2024. When addressing the challenges, her input helped identify solutions to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration in bioeconomy. Discussion benefited from her experience, leading to the creation of recommendations for this kind of collaboration. For more information about the ShapingBio workshop please visit LinkedIn und X.
This paper is one of the top 10 most-cited papers in the international journal Agribusiness. For the first time, the authors Friedrich Schneider, Mangirdas Morkunas, and Erika Quendler estimate the informal economy in the agricultural sector. The focus is on the 15 "old" EU countries over a period of 23 years. This achievment highlights the significance of the 'informal economy' in agricultural economics.
Spotlights on developments and empowerment potentials Since the reinforced emergence of feminist issues in the 1970s and the subsequent institutionalisation of gender-equality policy the visibility of women has also been increasing in Austrian agriculture and forestry. Not only do women in most cases shoulder the main responsibility for the household and all the latter entails but they are also playing active roles in agriculture, forestry, diversification and many other areas. In this...
From 13.02.-15.02.2024, the BAB hosted the kick-off meeting of the Horizon Europe project SERIGO in Vienna. The SERIGO project generates evidence-based theoretical and practicable knowledge on how the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) can support resilience, social inclusion, and ‘good life’ in European rural areas. Based on the research results and findings , recommendations will be developed on which framework conditions and policy measures are necessary to promote these objectives....
Interim results of the POCO-Flood project have been published in the scientific open access journal LAND: Land 2022, 11, 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030392 They deal with the topic of land use and conflicts of use in flood risk zones in alpine areas of Austria. The work of the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming points to the relatively high proportion of arable land with great economic importance for agricultural enterprises especially in alpine flood...
In the framework of the ROBUST project, a paper on "Rural Service hubs and socially innovative rural-urban linkages: A conceptual framework for nexogenous development" was recently published. Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK Theresia Oedl-Wieser, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna, Austria Ulla Ovaska, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland Aimee Morse, University of Gloucestershire,...
Erika Quendler, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Austria. John Ikerd, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, United States. Noureddin Driouech, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies - CIHEAM Bari, Italy. The poster depicts the link between family farms, sustainability, multifunctionality and agroecology. With this in mind, multifunctional family farming provides a much more logical model or paradigm to design...
Nidal Shaban, University of Forestry Sofia, Bulgaria / ISLE ASSOCIATION Erika Quendler, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Austria / ISLE ASSOCIATION Iman Kadhum, Agricultural Academy Sofia, Bulgaria / ISLE ASSOCIATION Noureddin Driouech, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies - CIHEAM Bari, Italy / ISLE ASSOCIATION The poster aims to promote a wide and constructive discussion on the current status and challenges facing...
At the beginning of March 2023, the European Commission published a "Study on low/no alcohol beverages", in which the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming also participated in the context of conducting a case study in Austria. The background to the study commissioned by the European Commission (EC) is the increasing supply of low-alcohol beverages (e.g. low/no-alcohol beer, dealcoholised wine) and the lack of an EU-wide legal framework for these products. The...
On 31 January 2022, the European Commission published the study "Adaptation strategies of the sugar supply chain after the end of sugar quotas". The Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research contributed to this work with a case study conducted in spring 2021. The study examines the consequences of the end of quotas for the EU sugar sector and assesses whether and to what extent the sector's adjustment strategies are appropriate for responding to the changed...