Research

My doctoral research focuses on the sustainability of European agricultural and livestock systems, with a particular interest in how environmental limits can be represented in economic analysis and policy design.

My thesis contributes to the STEP UP project, especially to work packages 5 and 6. My work aims to connect the development of a Safe Operating Space for European livestock systems with economic modelling of transition pathways. This link is central to my research: the environmental boundary framework helps define what sustainable livestock systems should respect, while modelling helps assess how production, consumption, trade, prices and land use could respond to policy and demand-side scenarios.

A central modelling component of this work is MAFSEU, a partial-equilibrium model of European agricultural and food systems. A first version of the model was used in the publication “The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers”. As part of my PhD, I contribute to developing the model further, with a particular focus on livestock systems and their environmental, economic and policy dimensions.

This page will evolve as my thesis progresses and as research outputs become available.