Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Qaim, Matin Prof. Dr."
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Pro-environmental behavior among Indonesian oil palm smallholders: Understanding perceptions, intentions and actions
(2019-01-11)The conversion of biologically rich areas into agricultural land undermines the capacity of these lands to sustain and maintain vital ecosystem functions. This is mostly the case when the conversion includes the simplification ... -
Export vegetable supply chains, household labour allocation and poverty effects among small producers – Evidence from Northern Tanzania
(2018-08-13)Throughout the past years, global agri-food systems have been deeply evolving with the rise and consolidation of modern supply chains. The emergence and increasing role played by these modern supply chains have been prompted ... -
Technology Adoption, Productivity, Efficiency, and Risk Exposure in the Ethiopian Small Farm Sector
(2018-07-20)Poverty and food insecurity are key global challenges. In the history of agriculture, advances in technology have contributed to increased food supply. Particularly, the green revolution has brought remarkable productivity ... -
Measuring nutrition: Comparing different nutritional assessment tools and analyzing intra-household inequality in rural Kenya.
(2018-06-12)Good and improved nutrition is an essential driver of human development, a platform for progress in health and equality. But in spite of notable improvements in achieving global nutrition goals, the malnutrition and food ... -
Land-use change and rural development in Indonesia: Economic, institutional and demographic aspects of deforestation and oil palm expansion
(2018-06-06)Changes in land use, such as deforestation, expansion of sedentary agriculture and intensification of agricultural systems, significantly altered economic and ecological conditions in many regions of the world. In recent ... -
Effects of oil palm expansion and other related land-use changes on the livelihoods of rural households in Indonesia
(2018-05-31)The demand for agricultural land is globally increasing due to population growth and dietary diversification. As the availability of agricultural land is limited, much of the cropland expansion is occurring at the expense ... -
Communication Networks and Nutrition-sensitive Extension in Rural Kenya: Essays on Centrality, Network Effects and Technology Adoption
(2018-05-29)Globally, 767 million people live on less than US$ 1.90 a day and two billion people are malnourished. Especially affected by poverty and malnutrition is the rural population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), who depend on the ... -
Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages in the Kenyan Small Farm Sector: The Role of Commercialization, Technology Adoption, and Extension
(2018-05-22)Global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty have declined over the past decades, but a situation of food and nutrition security for all is yet to be achieved, and extreme poverty is still widespread. Around 800 million people ... -
The Adoption of Legumes in Farmer and Consumer Settings
(2018-04-25)Mixed cropping (MC), the growing of two or more coexisting crops in one field, specifically the mix of cereal and grain legumes, can contribute to a more sustainable agricultural land use. Despite a variety of ecological ... -
Three Essays on Evaluating the Impact of Natural Resource Management Programs
(2018-02-02)This dissertation is composed of three papers describing the nexus between natural resource management programs, farmer well-being, and productivity. Our study sheds light on the effectiveness of actions that have been or ... -
Demand and Design Considerations for Smallholder Farmers’ Weather Index Insurance Products
(2018-02-01)This cumulative dissertation discusses a range of topics related to the demand for and considerations around product design of weather index insurance instruments aimed at smallholder farmers’ risk management. The second ... -
Technical and environmental efficiency of smallholder palm oil and rubber production
(2017-08-10)As part of the CRC 990: “Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)” of the University of Göttingen, this thesis is devoted to the subject of the ... -
Nutrition transition in urban Kenya: The role of supermarkets and nutritional knowledge
(2017-08-08)Nutrition transition is described as a shift in demographic and epidemiologic patterns; fostered through economic development, globalization, urbanization, and technological improvements. Depending on the stage of transition ... -
Mobile Phone Technologies and their Impacts on Household Welfare and Rural Development in Uganda
(2017-08-02)In the past two decades, since around 1995, mobile phone (MP) technologies have been widely adopted in developing countries – with the highest penetration rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, to levels of about 89% for adults. ... -
Essays on the Effects of Growth, Public Expenditures and Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries
(2017-07-14)The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays ... -
Risk, Insurance and Technology Adoption in Rural Development - Evidence from Southern Mexico
(2017-06-28)The first paper of this dissertation in Chapter II, “Insurance for Technology Adoption: An Experimental Evaluation of Schemes and Subsidies with Maize Farmers in Mexico”, analyzes experimentally how bundling the purchase ... -
Can Sustainability Standards Promote Socioeconomic Development in the Small Farm Sector? Insights from Coffee Producers in Uganda
(2017-05-31)Sustainable food production and consumption are important goals for an increasing number of consumers, policy makers, and other actors along global food chains. This is also reflected in the 12th United Nations’ Sustainable ... -
Supermarket contracts and household welfare in the small farm sector: Panel data evidence from Kenya
(2017-05-30)In many developing countries, the food retail sector is rapidly modernizing. With rising urban middle classes, supermarkets are increasingly replacing wet markets and other traditional retail outlets as the preferred place ... -
Farm Production Diversity and Dietary Quality in Smallholder Farm Households
(2017-01-13)Investments in agricultural modernization have resulted in remarkable progress in food production over the last century. As a consequence, the global number and the proportion of undernourished people has fallen significantly. ... -
Economics of Weather Index-Based Insurance: Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Preferences and the Impact of Insurance on Productivity in Kenya
(2016-11-29)Climatic risks are a major challenge for rural communities, especially those whose livelihoods directly depend on agriculture. Weather extremes affect crop productivity not only through the direct relationship between ...