Niklas Möhring wins SIAF Award for his research on pesticide policies
Dr Niklas Möhring has won the twelfth SIAF Award of the Swiss Institute of International Studies for his doctoral thesis on the reduction of environmental and health risks from pesticide use. The goal of his thesis has been to inform policymakers on the design and implementation of effective and efficient pesticide policies.
The reduction of pesticide risks is currently on top of the agricultural policy agenda. Two public initiatives for a (partial) ban of pesticides will be up for vote in the coming months in Switzerland and the EU Commission has recently suggested stricter risk reduction targets as part of its “Green Deal”.
Niklas Möhring wrote his thesis, entitled “Reducing Pesticide Use Risks: An Economic Analysis”, under the supervision of Professor Robert Finger of the Chair of Agricultural Economics and Policy. Möhring is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Agricultural Economics and Policy at ETH Zurich. Download thesis abstract.
The SIAF Award has been presented on 22 September 2020 at the University of Zurich. The MTEC Department congratulates Niklas Möhring and his supervisor Professor Robert Finger on their achievements!
Publications and further information
Key findings of the thesis are amongst others summarized in the recent publication “Pathways for advancing pesticide policies”, external page Möhring et al. (2020), Nature Food, 1(9), 535-540 and will be discussed together with research from co-authors in a external page webinar on 20 October 2020 at 11am.
SIAF Award
The external page Swiss Institute of International Studies together with external page Ernst & Young awards the annual SIAF Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. The dissertation has to make a scientific contribution to the understanding of political, economic, social and cultural relations in a global world. The SIAF Award comes with a cash prize of 10,000 francs.