Core Project 6 analyzes the potential impact of robotics and phenotyping technologies on agricultural development, welfare, the environment, the landscape, as well as on the farm level. Therefore, we are developing a simulation model for PhenoRob technology diffusion and impact. We are also assessing regional feasibility and the ecological-economic impact in Germany and the rest of the world by analyzing economic barriers and opportunities for the market launch of the inventions.
Research Videos
AgriAdopt – An Agent Based Model of Technology Adoption and Diffusion in Agriculture
Postdoctoral Researcher Sebastian Rasch talks about his reserach within the PhenoRob’s Core Project 6: Technology Adoptian and Impact.
Surrogate Modelling of Farm Behavior
PhenoRob PhD Student Linmei Shang talks about her research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
The Impact of the Behavior of Farmers on the Economic and Environmental Effects of Technologies
PhenoRob Junior Research Group Leader Hugo Storm talks about his research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
How to Govern Plant Breeding Systems
PhenoRob PhD Student Maria Gerullis talks about her research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
Identifying Suitable Locations for Wildflower Strips by Detecting Areas of Low Yield Potential
PhenoRob PhD Student Christoph Pahmeyer provides insights into his research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
Farm-level Adoption Analysis of Agricultural Innovations
PhenoRob PhD Student Philipp Feisthauer talks about his research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
Farmers’ Decision Making Process in Adopting New Technology
PhenoRob PhD Student Anna Massfeller talks about her research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
What happens after technology adoption?
PhenoRob PhD Student Elin Martinsson talks about her research within Core Project 6: Technology Adoption and Impact.
Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective
This PhenoRob paper trailer is based on the following publication: A. Massfeller, M. Meraner, S. Huettel, and R. Uehleke, “Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective,” Land Use Policy, vol. 120, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106281
Innovation context & technology traits explain heterogeneity across studies of agri. tech. adoption
This PhenoRob paper trailer is based on the following publication: Schulz, Dario & Börner, Jan, “Innovation context and technology traits explain heterogeneity across studies of agricultural technology adoption: A meta-analysis,” Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022. DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12521.
Measuring and Modelling Agricultural Technology Adoption
Jan Börner, Professor of Economics of Sustainable Natural Resource Use and Bioeconomy at the Institute for Food- and Resource Economics (ILR) and at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on the topic of measuring and modelling agricultural technology adoption.
C. Pahmeyer, T. Kuhn & W. Britz – ‘Fruchtfolge’: A crop rotation decision support system (Trailer)
Watch the full presentation: http://digicrop.de/program/fruchtfolge-a-crop-rotation-decision-support-system-for-optimizing-cropping-choices-with-big-data-and-spatially-explicit-modeling/
Jan Börner, University of Bonn (10.03.2023)
35th PhenoRob Seminar Series with Jan Börner on “Adoption and impacts of robotics & sensing in agriculture: pathways to upscaling”
PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talks: Christoph Pahmeyer
Christoph Pahmeyer gives a talk on “Advances in technology evaluation and decision support studies using bio/economic farmmodels” after successfully completing his PhD as part of PhenoRob. In the PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talks, recent PhenoRob graduates share about their research within the Cluster of Excellence.
PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talks: Maria Gerullis
Maria Gerullis gives a talk on “The governance of plant breeding – a social-ecological systems perspective” after successfully completing her PhD as part of PhenoRob. In the PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talks, recent PhenoRob graduates share about their research within the Cluster of Excellence.
An Economist’s View on Profit
Thomas Heckelei, Professor and head of the Economic and Agricultural Policy Group, Institute for Food- and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “An Economist’s View on Profit”.
Pathways for reducing pesticide risk
Niklas Möhring, Professor and head of the Production Economics Group, Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn gives a PhenoRob Interdisciplinary Lecture [PILS] on “Pathways for reducing pesticide risk”.
D. Wüpper, University of Bonn (20.10.2023)
40th PhenoRob Seminar Series with David Wüpper (University of Bonn) on “Modelling the Profitability of Agricultural Innovations at the Global Level”
PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talks: Linmei Shang
Linmei Shang gives a talk on “Technology adoption and upscaling of detailed farm-level models” after successfully completing her PhD as part of PhenoRob. In the PhenoRob PhD Graduate Talks, recent PhenoRob graduates share about their research within the Cluster of Excellence.
Faces of PhenoRob: Hugo Storm
In Faces of PhenoRob, we introduce you to some of PhenoRob’s many members: from senior faculty to PhDs, this is your chance to meet them all and learn more about the work they do! In this video, you’ll meet Hugo Storm, PhenoRob Junior Research Group Leader. https://hstorm.github.io/lab_page/
M. Qaim, University of Bonn (15.12.2023)
44th Seminar Series with Matin Qaim (University of Bonn) on “Public acceptance of agricultural robots”.
Faces of PhenoRob: David Wüpper
In Faces of PhenoRob, we introduce you to some of PhenoRob’s many members: from senior faculty to PhDs, this is your chance to meet them all and learn more about the work they do! In this video, you’ll meet David Wüpper, full professor and head of the Land Economics Group at the University of Bonn
Faces of PhenoRob: Matin Qaim
In Faces of PhenoRob, we introduce you to some of PhenoRob’s many members: from senior faculty to PhDs, this is your chance to meet them all and learn more about the work they do! In this video, you`ll meet Matin Qaim, the Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Schlegel-Professor of Economic and Technological Change at the University of Bonn. Matin’s research is dedicated to making agriculture and food systems more sustainable and ensuring food security within the planetary boundaries.
Positive public attitudes towards agricultural robots
Hendrik Zeddies, PhD student at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, presents his publication on the “Positive public attitudes towards agricultural robots”. The video is based on the following paper: Zeddies, H.H., Busch, G. & Qaim, M. Positive public attitudes towards agricultural robots. Sci Rep 14, 15607 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66198-4
Faces of PhenoRob: Dario Schulz
In Faces of PhenoRob, we introduce you to some of PhenoRob’s many members: from senior faculty to PhDs, this is your chance to meet them all and learn more about the work they do! In this video you’ll meet Dario Schulz, who is a PhD student for Food- and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn.
Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies
Dr. Sebastian Rasch is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), University of Bonn. Shang, L., Heckelei, T., Gerullis, M. K., Börner, J., & Rasch, S. 2021. Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies – integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction. Agricultural Systems, 190, 103074. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103074
Faces of PhenoRob: Elin Martinsson
In Faces of PhenoRob, we introduce you to some of PhenoRob’s many members: from senior faculty to PhDs, this is your chance to meet them all and learn more about the work they do! In this video, you’ll meet Elin Martinsson, PhenoRob PhD Student. https://hstorm.github.io/lab_page/cv_martinsson/
Linmei Shang et al. – Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies (Trailer)
Watch the full presentation: http://digicrop.de/program/adoption-and-diffusion-of-digital-farming-technologies-integrating-farm-level-evidence-and-system-level-interaction/
Linmei Shang et al. – Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies
International Conference on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production (DIGICROP 2020) • November 1-10, 2020 • http://digicrop.de/
Institutions and Global Crop Yields
Topic: Institutions and Global Crop Yields Speaker: Prof. David Wuepper (Head of Land Economics Group and Full Professor at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) in the University of Bonn) Abstract We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all global land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by 2.2% over the next five years, highlighting that institutional reforms have the potential to close some of the observed crop yield gap. Three subcategories are consistently significant: credit market regulation, inflation, and the top marginal tax rate. There is suggestive evidence that higher average yields are achieved through mechanization as indicated by an earlier planting date, but there is no change to yield variability. The same reforms also lead to cropland expansion through deforestation. Biography: David Wuepper recently joined the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn as a full professor and the head of the Land Economics Group. Wuepper completed his doctorate in agricultural economics at the TU Munich, Germany. He then went on to work as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Agricultural Economics Department in the Technical University of Munich, and, most recently, at the Department of Environmental Systems Science and Dep. of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Before joining the University of Bonn, he held the position of interim professor of quantitative agricultural economics at Humboldt University in Berlin. Wuepper focuses on land policy and agricultural behavioral economics. His prior research has examined farmers’ risk tolerance and the impact of climate change on food markets.
PhenoRob: Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production
Agriculture today faces significant challenges that require new ways of thinking, such as smart digital technologies that enable innovative approaches. However, research gaps limit their potential to improve agriculture. In our PhenoRob paper “Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production”, Sabine Seidel, Hugo Storm and Lasse Klingbeil outline an interdisciplinary agenda to address the key research gaps and advance sustainability in agriculture. They identify four critical areas: 1. Monitoring to detect weeds and the status of surrounding crops 2. Modelling to predict the yield impact and ecological impacts 3. Decision making by weighing the yield loss against the ecological impact 4. Model uptake, for example policy support to compensate farmers for ecological benefits Closing these gaps requires strong interdisciplinary collaboration. In PhenoRob, this is achieved through five core experiments, seminar and lecture series, and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate teaching activities. The paper is available at: H. Storm, S. J. Seidel, L. Klingbeil, F. Ewert, H. Vereecken, W. Amelung, S. Behnke, M. Bennewitz, J. Börner, T. Döring, J. Gall, A. -K. Mahlein, C. McCool, U. Rascher, S. Wrobel, A. Schnepf, C. Stachniss, and H. Kuhlmann, “Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production,” European Journal of Agronomy, vol. 156, p. 127178, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2024.127178 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1161030124000996?via%3Dihub