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Charles Rees

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Applied agricultural economics and politics
  • Ex-post impact evaluation of agroecological production strategies and environmental schemes
  • Spatial econometrics
  • Soil health promotion measures

Projects

Training / professional career

  • Since 2023 Agricultural economist, FiBL Switzerland 
  • Since 2023 External doctoral candidate, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich
  • 2022 Internship and Master’s Thesis, FiBL Switzerland
  • 2020 - 2022 Research assistant, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich 
  • 2020 - 2022 Master in Agricultural Sciences, M.Sc. ETH Sc. (Major: Agricultural Economics and Policy), ETH Zurich      
  • 2019 - 2020 Commodity Merchandising Trainee, European Graduate Programme, Cargill CASC EMEA
  • 2015 - 2018 Bachelor in Agricultural Sciences, University of Nottingham

Committee work / further activities

  • Member of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)
  • Member of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA)
  • Coordinator of the FiBL Applied Economics Lab

Teaching

  • “Agricultural Policy Evaluation” B.Sc. course guest lecture (2024), Bern University of Applied Sciences HAFL

Awards

  • Young Scientists Award - First Place (2023), Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA) 
  • ETH-D Scholarship (2020 - 2022), Department of Environmental Science, ETH Zurich
  • Student Award (2018), The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE)
  • The Farm Management Association Award (2018), School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
  • The Longwill and Fort Prize (2018), School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
  • Frontier First Year Award (2016), Frontier Agriculture

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Grovermann C, Rees C, Beye A, Wossen T, Abdoulaye T and Cicek H (2023) Uptake of agroforestry-based crop management in the semi-arid Sahel – Analysis of joint decisions and adoption determinants. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1042551. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1042551
  • Schaub, S., Ghazoul, J., Huber, R., Zhang, W., Sander, A., Rees, C., Banerjee, S. & Finger, R. (2023) The role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' participation in voluntary agri-environmental schemes: A systematic review. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 00, 1– 44. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12538
  • Rees, C., Grovermann, C., Finger, R., 2023. National organic action plans and organic farmland area growth in Europe. Food Policy 121, 102531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102531