About us
What impact does increasing international competition have on agriculture, forestry and on prices for food products? What consequences does climate change have on agricultural, forest and aquatic ecosystems? What processes would allow the non-food sector to use renewable resources in a more efficient manner? These questions give an impression of the broad of spectrum of topics we work on at the vTI.
Spatially, the vTI focuses on:
- Rural areas as production sites and living areas for a sizeable part of the population,
- Forests as ecosystems and suppliers of wood,
- Oceans (North Sea, Baltic Sea, North Atlantic) as biotopes for fish as a natural resource.
Functionally, the vTI is active in a comprehensive way in the disciplines:
- Economics,
- Ecology,
- Technology.
The research of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute is targeted at developing concepts for a sustainable, ecologically viable, and competitive
- agriculture and food economy,
- forestry and wood economy,
- fisheries and aquaculture.
Another main focus is to help overcome the specific problems of the rural areas.