CREDA - Research Center for Agri-Food Economics and Rural Development - is a dynamic and international research foundation with specialized in environmental, agricultural and behavioral economics, sociology, nutrition and environmental sciences.
It is a reference center for agri-food economics and rural development both in Catalonia and internationally.
Central themes of the research conducted at CREDA include:
• Assessment of consumer and producers behavior towards agricultural products, innovation and technology
• Agriculture and livestock competitiveness strategic assessment
• Socio-economic assessment of food systems for sustainable development
• Sustainable and innovative use of natural resources
• Livelihood strategies and preferences of rural producers in the face of global change
• Enhanced understanding of the complex systems society-land-food-industry-policy
CREDA operates at the crossroads of the public and private sectors, advancing scientific transference to all nodes of food value chains to take informed decisions.

Agriculture
Economics
Political sciences
Sociology of Education
Sociology of the Environment

CREDA would like to join a project consortium to provide a multidisciplinary approach, offering the capacity to introduce socio-economic dynamics and a socio-ecological dimension, to explore together pathways to novel ecosystems, in any of the 3 themes proposed.
We have a dynamic international team, and a project office that supports proposal preparation, able to contribute and lead from idea generation, to proposal writing, consortium management and administrative workload.

agri-food economics, ecosystem services, socio-economic modelling, behavioral economics, willigness to pay, cost-benefit analysis

We are able to meet online