Juergen Zeddies (born 28 June 1942 in
Hameln
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) is a German
agricultural economist
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Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specif ...
,
Emeritus of the
University of Hohenheim
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and an advisor to
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and international governments and research organisations.
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Life and work
In the summer term of 1974 he became stand-in professor for Wilhelm Brandes and in October of the same year was appointed Professor of Agricultural Management at the University of Hohenheim, where he remained until 2008.
Zeddies received a number of commissions from national and state ministries, for example to draw up plans for milk quotas, set-aside of land, direct payments to agriculture (together with A. Henze) and for the EU Commission
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to plan reforms of the sugar market regulations (together with Wilhelm Henrichsmeyer).plant protection
Crop protection is the science and practice of managing plant diseases, weeds, and other pests (both vertebrate and invertebrate) that damage crops and forestry. Crops include field crops (maize, wheat, rice, etc.), vegetable crops (potatoes, cab ...
(in Jemen
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, Nigeria
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, Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
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* hil, Republ ...
, Tonga
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, Samoa
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, Morocco
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among other countries), improved seed supply (Nepal
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, Sri Lanka
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, Morocco and others) and new production methods through technical innovation (Azoren, Philippines, Egypt
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, Benin
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and others).Chinese Government
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(in 1986 in cooperation with Erwin Reisch and W. Grosskopf) to carry out a study on land reform
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which was put into practice only a few years later. After the dissolution of the "Eastern Bloc
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" he used EU projects to build up the Hohenheim network. Scientists from Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Georgia were educated in Hohenheim and their home institutes were supplied with internet services, computers and textbooks.Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
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(German Research Foundation) and for ten years he was head of a graduate college of the German Research Society. For six years he was a member of the Central Committee and Senate of the same organisation. He was a member of the Scientific Board of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Advisory Board on Sustainability of Baden-Wuerttemberg State.
Awards
* Gold Medal of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg (1995)
* Honorary Doctorate of the Moscow Universities (Timirjasew-Akademie 1996) and Timișoara (Romania 1999)
* Honorary Professor in South Korea (Suwon 1997) und Uzbekistan (Samarkand 2002)
* Badge of Honour of the University of Hohenheim (2008)
* Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Federal Cross of Merit
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) of the German Federation (2008)
* Theodor-Brinkmann-Prize of Bonn University
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(2009)
References
External links
Information concerning Juergen Zeddies on the Webpage of the University Hohenheim
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Living people
German agronomists
1942 births
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany