This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay presents a new operational concept of transaction costs that firstly allows assessing the magnitude ...

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. ...

With the use of first hand field survey data from yak grazing households combined with remotely sensed Net Primary Productivity data on the Qinghai-Tibetan-Plateau, stochastic distance functions are developed with grazing ...

There is growing evidence that the current agri-food system is not sustainable, because major environmental and ethical issues challenge the global development. Against this complex background it becomes clear, that ...

This thesis analyzes challenges to agricultural production in China, which could impair the country’s ability to maintain or to increase its output of important food commodities. By means of three empirical studies, issues ...

In response to the proliferation of global private food standards, some developing countries are establishing their own national food standards as a way to position themselves in major food markets. However, country-of-origin ...

This study uses household level data collected in Shandong Province of China to study rural formal financial institutions’ lending volume decisions, the number of lending approvals, and respondents’ attitude towards interest ...