Albert Zimmermann

Albert Zimmermann is a research associate at the Department Socioeconomics of the Research Station Agroscope in Tänikon (CH). His research interests are simulation and optimisation models in the fields of agriculture, food security and environment, agricultural structures and environmental policy measures.

Albert Zimmermann
Agroscope
Tänikon 1
Ettenhausen
8356
Switzerland

Email: albert.zimmermann@agroscope.admin.ch
Web: http://www.agroscope.admin.ch/soziooekonomie/

Please direct correspondence about this article to Albert Zimmermann

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Anke Möhring

Anke Möhring holds a PhD in economics from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2000, she works as a research assistant for the Department of Socioeconomics at the Research Station Agroscope in Tänikon (CH). Her research interests are operations research, quantitative policy analysis and socio-economic analysis.

Anke Möhring
Agroscope
Tänikon 1
8356 Ettenhausen
Switzerland

Email: anke.moehring@agroscope.admin.ch
Web: http://www.agroscope.admin.ch/soziooekonomie/

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Gabriele Mack

Gabriele Mack holds a PhD in economics from University of Hohenheim, Germany. Since 1996, she is collaborator of the Department Socioeconomics of the Research Station Agroscope in Tänikon (CH). Her research interests are quantitative policy analysis, agent-based modeling and socio-economic analysis.

Gabriele Mack
Agroscope
Tänikon 1
8356 Ettenhausen
Switzerland

Email: gabriele.mack@agroscope.admin.ch
Web: http://www.agroscope.admin.ch/soziooekonomie/

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Ali Ferjani

Ali Ferjani holds a PhD in economics from University of Montpellier, France. Since 2000, he is collaborator of the Department Socioeconomics of the Research Station Agroscope in Tänikon (CH). His research interests are quantitative policy analysis, market modeling and socio-economic analysis.

Ali Ferjani
Agroscope
Tänikon 1
8356 Ettenhausen
Switzerland

Email: ali.ferjani@agroscope.admin.ch
Web: http://www.agroscope.admin.ch/soziooekonomie/

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Stefan Mann

Stefan Mann received his PhD degrees from the Hohenheim and the Greifswald Universities and a habilitation title from the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment of the Rostock University. Since 2002 he is Department Leader Socioeconomics at the Research Station Agroscope of the Swiss Federal Office of Economics. His research interests are economic and agricultural policy measures, market behaviour and rural sociology.

Stefan Mann
Agroscope
Tänikon 1
8356 Ettenhausen
Switzerland

Email: stefan.mann@agroscope.admin.ch
Web: http://www.agroscope.admin.ch/soziooekonomie/