Robert Finger

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Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at ETH Zürich

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/fingerrobert

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-finger-211555234/

Google.scholar: http://bit.ly/2ZxA9bg

‘Erlauben uns digitale Technologien in Zukunft auf Pflanzenschutzmittel zu verzichten?’ (Nein, aber…)

Ich freue mich über die Einladung der Technischen Gesellschaft Zürich zu einem Vortrag am 23. März 2026 (18:15-19:30 ETH HG D1.1) https://www.tgz-net.ch/

Hintergrundpaper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104516

Save the Date and join us on April 01!

David Wuepper will come to ETH Zürich and speak on 'Bending the Curve of Agricultural Land Degradation', as part of the new Einstein Colloquium on Science and Policy.

1 April, 12.15-13.15

On site & via zoom. Details https://einstein-school.ethz.ch/en/news/colloquium/2026/FS/colloquium--prof--dr--david-wuepper.html

Colloquium: Prof. Dr. David Wuepper

Albert Einstein School of Public Policy

Preparing material on scientific writing in agricultural economics

Reflecting on podcast ‘Why Is Academic Writing So Bad?’ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-academic-writing-so-bad/ taught me a lot, as did the great support resources summarized by Amanda Agan https://sites.google.com/site/amandayagan/writingadvice, including the great material by Marc Bellemare https://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/research/doing-economics

Join us on March 18 for a FRIES Seminar by Maria Espinosa Goded on 'How To Best Promote Domestic Water Savings: Insights From An RCT Testing Social Norms And Intrinsic Motivations'

March 18, 16.30 CET, at ETH or via zoom https://ethz.zoom.us/j/69814953776?from=addon

On my way to The University of Bonn. I am looking forward to the opportunity to give a keynote speech on 'Digital Innovations for Better Agricultural Policies', as well as to the discussions at the Model2Adapt workshop organised by Anna Cord and Frank Wätzold.

Details on Model2Adapt https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/563531457?language=en

On my way to Müncheberg and the ZALF (the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) where I serve on the Scientific Advisory Board.

Looking forward learning from fascinating ongoing work and exciting plans for the future.

https://www.zalf.de/en/Pages/ZALF.aspx

‘Digital Innovations, AI-enabled systems and Governance - Opportunities and Challenges for Agricultural Policy’

Looking forward to presenting our work at the 36th Meeting of the OECD’s Farm Level Analysis Network (FLAN) tomorrow. https://www.oecd.org/en/networks/farm-level-analysis-network.html

Today we had a great kickoff meeting for our work package on 'Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies in Agri-Food Systems'

Part of the ACHIEVE project, ‘Pathways to ACHIEVE Net-Zero Target for Hard-to-Abate Swiss Emissions’ https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/achieve

Today, Chiara Boeri from Wageningen University joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist for the coming 3 months.

Chiara is working with us, among others, on economics and adoption stages of strip cropping systems.

We are very happy to have you on board!🥳

‚Agrarzölle nach Trumps Vorbild‘
Artikel im Tagesanzeiger 

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/nationalrat-will-agrarzoelle-erhoehen-lebensmittel-werden-teurer-863488623755

Im Artikel zitierter Bericht des Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft
https://www.parlament.ch/centers/documents/de/2026-01-27%20Notiz%20BLW%20D.pdf