On 6 July 2016, Meike Weltin and Dr. Jens Rommel from the Institute of Socio-Economics of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) were honored with the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Award. Ms. Weltin received the award for the best master's thesis in which income diversification strategies of European farm households are examined.
Dr. Rommel was awarded for the best dissertation on the use of economic experiments for institutional analysis in an environmental context.
The Albrecht Daniel Thaer Award is dedicated to support young scientists in the field of agricultural, horticultural and fisheries sciences. It is awarded for outstanding doctoral work or degrees of PhD students or graduates of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute since 1996.
