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Benjamin Blumenstein

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Production economics
  • System modelling and risk assessment
  • Sustainability assessment

Projects

Training / professional career

  • Since 2023 Scientific collaborator at FiBL Switzerland
  • Since 2011 Scientific collaborator at the Institute of farm economics, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany
  • 2012 - 2017 PhD, University of Kassel, Germany
  • 2008 - 2010 Master in Organic Agriculture, University of Kassel/Witzenhausen, Germany
  • 2004 - 2008 Diploma in Organic Agriculture, University of Kassel/Witzenhausen, Germany
  • 2001 - 2003 Farmer apprenticeship with focus on dairy cattle and grassland

Committee work / further activities

  • Member of the Swiss Society of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA)
  • Member of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)

Teaching

  • University of Kassel/Witzenhausen (since 2012)

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Siegmeier, T., Blumenstein, B. & Möller, D. (2023): Bioenergy Production and Organic Agriculture. In: Organic Farming. Global Perspectives and Methods. Second edition. Eds. Chandran, S., Unni, M.R. & Thomas, S. Woodhead Publishing. 331-359. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813272-2.00012-4
  • Blumenstein, B., Siegmeier, T., Selsam, F. & Möller, D. (2018): A case of sustainable intensification: Stochastic farm budget optimization considering internal economic benefits of biogas production in organic agriculture. Agricultural Systems 159, 78-92
  • Blumenstein, B. (2017): Sustainable Intensification of Organic and Low-Input Agriculture through Integrated Bioenergy Production – System Analysis, Economic Implications, and Risk Assessment. University of Kassel, Diss. Agr.
  • Blumenstein, B., Finckh, M. R., Möller, D., Schmidt, J. H. & Wittwer, R. (2017): OSCAR: Produktionsökonomische Implikationen von Zwischenfrucht- und Mulchsystemen – Eine interdisziplinär fundierte Anwendung von Monte-Carlo-Simulationen. Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V., Bd. 52, 2017, S. 429 – 431
  • Blumenstein, B., Siegmeier, T. & Möller, D. (2016): Economics of Anaerobic Digestion in Organic Agriculture: Between System Constraints and Policy Regulations. Biomass and Bioenergy 86, 105-119
  • Blumenstein, B., Siegmeier, T., Bruckhaus, C., Anspach, V. & Möller, D. (2015): Integrated Bioenergy and Food Production – A German Survey on Structure and Developments of Anaerobic Digestion in Organic Farming Systems. Sustainability, 7, 10709-10732
  • Siegmeier, T., Blumenstein, B. & Möller, D. (2015): Farm biogas production in organic agriculture: System implications. Agricultural Systems, 139, 196-209
  • Siegmeier, T., Blumenstein, B. und Möller, D. (2014): The alliance of agricultural bioenergy and organic farming topics in scientific literature. Organic Agriculture 4, 243-268
  • Blumenstein, B. und Möller, D. (2013): Ökonomische Bewertung von Landnutzungssystemen des extensiven Grünlands. In: Bahrs, E., Becker, T., Birner, R., Brockmeier, M., Dabbert, S., Doluschitz, R., Grethe, H., Lippert, C., Thiele, E. (Hrsg.): Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus e.V., Band 48, 473-474
  • Blumenstein, B., Bühle, L., Wachendorf, M., Möller, D. (2012): Economic assessment of the integrated generation of solid fuel and biogas from biomass (IFBB) in comparison to different energy recovery, animal-based and non-refining management systems. Bioresource Technology 119, 312-323
  • Blumenstein, B. und Möller, D. (2012): On the economics of bio-energy recovery from semi-natural grasslands. In: Golinski, P., Warda, M., Stypinski, P. (Hrsg.): Grassland – a European resource? Grassland Science in Europe, Bd. 17, S. 765-767, Grassland Science in Europe.
  • Blumenstein, B. und Möller, D. (2011): Bio-energy from semi-natural grasslands? Socio-economics and risk assessment of alternative grassland utilisation in disadvantaged areas. In: Pötsch, E. M., B. Krautzer & A. Hopkins (Hrsg.): Grassland Farming and Land Management Systems in Mountainous Regions, Grassland Science in Europe, Bd. 16, S. 311-313, Grassland Science in Europe.