Congratulations to Thomas Rellensman from the University of Osnabrück, who has been awarded this year’s REECAP award for his paper "Combined result-based and collective agri-environmental schemes for landscape-scale benefits: Experimental evidence from Germany!".
The Research Network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP) is an EU-wide network founded in 2017 to contribute to the improvement of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) through the use of economic experimental approaches for more evidence-based policy design and evaluation. Their annual award celebrating stellar contributions by young researchers to the field of agri-experimental economics.
The select work must exhibit:
scientific merit
policy relevance
clarity and structure of the presentation.
A valued member of the FRAMEwork consortium, Thomas’ research practice examines how payments for environmental services can be applied to promote environmentally-friendly practices on agricultural lands. He was presented the award at the fifth annual REECAP meeting in Warsaw, before an audience of 50 fellow researchers.
Thomas, pictured here on the left.
When we caught up to congratulate him he shared some thoughts:
“It is really great to receive the REECAP award as a recognition of the effort that we put into developing and implementing a sound economic experiment. We hope that our research provides policymakers with new insights on the potential of combining novel designs within agri-environmental schemes. By combining result-based payments with collective contracts, novel schemes can not only provide economic support for collaborative farmer groups such as Farmer Clusters but, potentially, even improve the effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes on the ground.’
The other recipient of this year’s award was Damien Mayaux from the Paris School of Economics for his paper “Promoting Green Consumption in Retail Markets: Behavioural Interventions under Strategic Pricing”.
We’re so pleased Thomas’ valuable work has been recognised at this international scale and look forward to his research developing further.
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