Dr Laure Kuhfuss

James Hutton Institute

Environmental economist with a research focus on the design and evaluation of agri-environmental policies.

Dr Kuhfess' work analyses farmers’ behaviours and preferences towards pro-environmental land management practices and investigates how to design efficient agri-environmental schemes with insights from behavioural economics and through interdisciplinary collaborations. She has expertise in a range of experimental and statistical approaches (economic lab experiments, discrete choice experiments, econometric analysis). She has a joint position with the University of St Andrews, is an elected member of the French association of rural economists’ scientific committee and is an active member of the European REECAP network (Research network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy).