The institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics
August 20, 2025
The Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics (AREI) is a major bioeconomy research and leading field crop breeding institute with over 100 years of history.
Research areas and competencies AREI scientists carry out field crop variety breeding, research into various field crop growing technologies, conduct research on field crop quality and sustainable rural development, as well as economic analysis in the agricultural, food production and fisheries sectors.
Latest research projects and achievements
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Name |
Project No. |
Total budget (EUR) |
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ES Horizon projekts “Excellence hub for a smart agriculture and circular bioeconomy towards a sustainable agrifood sector in widening countries (and beyond)” . (AGRI- BIOCIRCULAR – HUB)/
The Center of Excellence for Smart Agriculture and Circular Bioeconomy Towards a Sustainable Agri-Food Sector is Expanding in Countries (and Beyond) ”(AGRI-BIOCIRCULAR-HUB)
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101186869 |
5 995 825 EUR |
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Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2021-2027 project - "Maintenance and scaling up potato growing and consumption heritage in Northern Baltic region to build up resilient communities
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S2_028 |
500 000 EUR |
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Interreg VI-A Estonia-Latvia programme project - “Protecting and preserving biodiversity in arable and grasslands in Estonia and Latvia" Protection and conservation of biodiversity in arable land and grasslands in Estonia and Latvia. |
EE-LV00132
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1 083 966.25 EUR |
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European Innovation Partnership project - Economically justified integration of legumes into farming systems for the implementation of EU Green Deal objectives: nitrogen fixation and productive use of the crop |
24-00COLA1601-0014 |
299 937,72 EUR |
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European Innovation Partnership project - Use of innovative prebiotics in poultry and crop production to achieve climate neutrality |
24-00COLA1601-000029
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292 105,97 EUR |
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Leading scientists
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First name, last name |
Degree |
h-indekss ( Scopus) |
ORCID vai Web of Science Researcher ID |
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Sanita Zute |
Dr.agr. |
9 |
ORCID: 0000-0001-5523-1111, Scopus ID: 55279821300, WoS ResearcherID: BBC-2203-2021; HHJ-5342-2022 |
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Vita Šterna |
Dr.sc.ing. |
9 |
ORCID: 0000-0001-6015-814X, Scopus ID: 55193457900, WoS ResearcherID: H-8901-2012 |
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Linda Legzdiņa |
Dr.agr. |
8 |
Scopus ID: 7801518946, WoS ResearcherID: DCA-0330-2022 |
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Māra Bleidere |
Dr.agr. |
7 |
ORCID: 0000-0001-7631-8494, Scopus ID: 52363177900, WoS ResearcherID: EOO-9953-2022 |
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Ilze Skrabule |
Dr.agr. |
7 |
ORCID: 0000-0002-5837-3040, Scopus ID: 370400043300, WoS ResearcherID: FXK-0183-2022 |
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Agnese Krieviņa |
Dr.oec. |
5 |
ORCID: 0000-0003-3638-2680, Scopus ID: 56023885900, WoS ResearcherID: DXO-3879-2022 |
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Ilze Dimante |
PhD |
4 |
ORCID: 0000-0002-3714-7714, Scopus ID: 56576288900, WoS ResearcherID: FYJ-8217-2022 |
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Aina Kokare |
PhD |
4 |
ORCID: 0000-0002-0153-7833, Scopus ID: 55212173100, WoS ResearcherID: GBY-6760-2022 |
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Ingūna Gulbe |
Dr.oec. |
3 |
ORCID: 0000-0003-3093-2362, Scopus ID: 55916786000, WoS ResearcherID: EZK-1919-2022 |
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Pēteris Lakovskis |
Dr.ģeogr. |
3 |
ORCID: 0000-0002-0965-6220, Scopus ID: 57196245712, WoS ResearcherID: AAJ-2386-2021 |
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Līvija Zariņa |
Dr.oec. |
3 |
ORCID: 0000-0003-0198-1798; Scopus ID: 24280850800, WoS ResearcherID: KYP-8762-2024 |
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Alberts Auziņš |
Dr.oec. |
2 |
ORCID: 0000-0002-6191-037X; Scopus ID: 57196246579, WoS ResearcherID: CED-9654-2022 |
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