Services
We work with a range of partners, including farming businesses, companies, public authorities, other universities and research institutes, regions, tourist destinations and our colleagues at BFH-HAFL. Together, we offer an extensive portfolio of services:
- Support for the development of local, cantonal and regional agricultural and food strategies.
- Analyses and planning of agricultural diversification strategies (distribution, direct marketing, agritourism, energy).
- Evaluation of legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to relevant areas of public policy, with a particular focus on agriculture, energy, regional planning/development, innovation, and conservation of natural resources, e.g. water, forests, biodiversity, environment and landscape.
- Evaluation of projects and public policy measures.
- Spatial analyses.
- SWOT analyses and market research, e.g. to identify the potential for rural tourism or the development of electromobility.
- Agricultural and regional marketing, e.g. in relation to regional agriculture, agritourism and agriculture-related cuisine.
- Development of regional projects / promotion of transboundary regional cooperation.
- Analyses of regional value chains and development of appropriate strategies.
- We are responsive to our clients’ requirements and engage with new fields of study and research relating to our main topics in order to offer optimised support.
- Our activities are embedded in the following disciplines: Institutional and Organisational Economics, Macro-Economics, Management and Marketing, Economic Geography, Regional Planning, Regional Development, Rural Economics and the Agri-Food Industry, Environmental Economics, Renewable Resources