Training and Technology for Sustainable Farming

Building on a completed project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) entitled "IndORGANIC" (Grant # 031B0233) the Chair of Development Economics has started in 2021/2022 two new projects on sustainable farming:

• Learning about sustainable adoption of green agricultural technologies: Experimental evidence from training with organic farming practices and soil tests in Indonesia
   
• A large-scale pilot experiment on low-cost soil-test kits to enhance sustainable farming among small holders in Indonesia
  
   

Academic papers

• Fritz, M., Grimm, M., Keilbart, P., Laksmana, D.D., Luck, N., Padmanabhan, M., Subandi, N. & Tamtomo, K. (2021). Turning Indonesia Organic: Insights from Transdisciplinary Research on the Challenges of a Societal Transformation. Sustainability, 13, 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313011.
   
• M. Grimm, N. Luck and F. Steinhübel (2023), Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for organic rice. Insights from a non-hypothetical experiment in Indonesia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12501
   
• M. Grimm and N. Luck (2022), Experimenting with a green ‘Green Revolution’. Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia, Ecological Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107727.  
  An earlier version of the paper has been circulated with the title “Can training enhance adoption, knowledge and perception of organic farming practices? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Indonesia” as an IZA Discussion Paper. 
   

Policy Briefs

• Fritz, M., Grimm, M. & Luck, N. (2020). Information Sharing Within Social Networks: Lessons from an organic farming training. IndORGANIC Policy Brief, University of Passau.