LEI

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LEI B.V. part of Wageningen University & Research Centre

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LEI

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The Agricultural Economics Research Institute, LEI BV, is the leading organisation in the Netherlands for research on business economics and socio-economics in agriculture, horticulture, fisheries and forestry. LEI examines agriculture and agribusiness in the context of rural development and environmental sustainability from the local level up to the international and global levels. LEI's international activities focus on strategic and applied economic research on agribusiness and global trade. LEI is part of Wageningen University and Research Centre

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www.lei.wur.nl

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LEI BV
P.O. Box 29703, 2502 LS DEN HAAG
Burgemeester Patijnlaan 19
2585 BE  Wageningen
Netherlands
Fax: +31 70 3615624

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Dr.
Ida Terluin

E-mail: Ida.Terluin@wur.nl

WP2 Leader of FARO project
Ida Terluin (PhD) is a senior economist at LEI. She has over 15 years of professional experience in analysis of common agricultural and structural policies and rural development in the EU. She was the assistant-coordinator of the FAIR project RUREMPLO in which factors, encouraging and hampering employment development in leading and lagging rural regions in the EU, were identified (DG Agriculture). she was the co-ordinator of the Dutch team of the FAIR 5 Marketowns project, in which the role of small and medium sized towns in rural development was analysed. Currently she is working on a study of leading and lagging regions in the OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s for the OECD Working Party on Territorial Indicators, and on DG Agri projects on the evaluation of LFA policy in the EU and SCENAR2020.

 


Dr. Hans van Meijl

E-mail: Hans.vanMeijl@wur.nl

Hans van Meijl (PhD, Wageningen University) is head of the Research Unit on Agricultural and Food Policy at LEI. He has been working on trade liberalisation (WTO, Candidate of China to WTO, impact on developing countries), EU agricultural policy (Mid-term review, Agenda 2000) and, on technology transfer at macro-level (international knowledge spillovers between countries, (productivity) impact of GMOs) as well as micro-level (innovation at farm level). He currently is in charge of the economic modelling of agriculture and rural development in several national and international projects (SCENAR2020, SENSOR, EURURALIS) and has published several articles in international journals (including Economic Policy, Journal of Development Economics, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Cahiers d’économie et socilogie rurales, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics) on these subjects. He is an active member of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), a research fellow of the Global Trade Analyses Project (GTAP) and Senior Research Fellow at the Mansholt Graduate SchoolProject assistant of FARO project


Dr. Martin Banse

E-mail:  Martin.Banse@wur.nl

Martin Banse (PhD) is an senior agricultural economist in the research unit on international trade and development at LEI. He has over 10 years experience in quantitative analyses of agricultural policy and international trade. He has done much work in agricultural sector analysis and quantitative modelling, and has extensive experience in working with partial and general equilibrium models. He was responsible for the CGE modeling in the EU-FAIR Project “Implications of Central and Eastern European Countries’ Candidate to the EU”. Currently he is also team leader in the FW-6 project IDEMA on “The Impact of Decoupling and Modulation in the Enlarged Union: A sectoral and farm level assessment”.


Dr. Floor Brouwer

E-mail: Floor.Brouwer@wur.nl

Floor M. Brouwer (PhD) is head of the Research Unit on Management of Natural Resources, and is in charge of (national and international) studies on the linkages between agricultural and environmental policies and the agricultural sector, and has major expertise on the interaction between agriculture, environment and nature at European scale. He managed a Concerted Action on CAP and environment in the EU (FAIR3-CT96-1793), and was programme manager of a study on Standards on Nitrate in the European Community (Contract EV5V-CT920155). He completed a study - commissioned by the European Commission (DG AGRI) comparing environmental and health-related standards applying to agriculture in the EU vis-à-vis its main competitors on the world market. He is co-leader of the FP 6 IP SEAMLESS.
Landscape Centre, Alterra
Senior researcher with a PhD in rural Geography. Specialised in the field of driving forces for land use change processes and regional development issues in the European countryside. Her research projects are internationally comparative and are relevant to policy.