Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Referee "Brümmer, Bernhard Prof. Dr."
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Price cycles and synchronization in South America
(2020-02-21)Prices of agricultural products often vary in relatively stable recurring patterns around their long-run trends. These variations translate into fluctuations of selling prices as well as farm revenues. We provide an overview ... -
Essays on Indonesian Undernutrition Vulnerability and Domestic Asymmetric Rice Price Transmission with the World
(2019-11-05)This dissertation addresses two different aspects related to food security problems in Indonesia, particularly from the aspect of food accessibility and availability. The first essay deals with the assessment of ... -
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 ... -
The impact of agri-environmental policy and infrastructure on wildlife and land prices
(2018-12-14)The thesis contains three essays in the field of environmental policy. In the first paper, we study the relationship between the agri-environmental payments for farmers and wildlife. The effects of EU agri-environmental ... -
Technical and Environmental Efficiency of Grapevine Production in Mendoza, Argentina
(2018-12-12)As the Argentinean grapevine production systems have gained global visibility, the wine industry has been revitalized with a greater focus on enological quality, technology adoption, and export orientation. Although grapevine ... -
Essays on Economic Returns to Fertilizer, Market Structure of Milk Industry, and Air Pollution and Food Security in China
(2018-10-15)Over the past four decades, China has made fruitful achievements in agricultural development, which attracted a great deal of attention within the academy. Meanwhile, Chinese agriculture has also undergone dramatic and ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Transaction Costs and Food Diversity in Developing Countries
(2018-06-26)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 ... -
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 ... -
Schätzverfahren für individuelles Preissetzungsverhalten im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel
(2018-01-12)The issue of transferring a price along the value-added chain of agricultural products, the so-called vertical price transmission (VPT), has once again become a matter of concern. The retail sector is suspected to operate ... -
Prospects of cash crop production in CBSR of Russia
(2017-10-13)Russian crop production reflects a significant rise in the cultivation of corn and soybeans. One of the highest growth rates, along with a significant share in the national output, can be found in the Central Black Soil ... -
Three essays on the economics of cocoa – The technical and environmental efficiency of Indonesian cocoa production
(2017-08-21)In the new millennium, the soaring economic growth in Asia and Africa, the increase of world trade, and globalization have boosted the global demand for cocoa. However, world cocoa supply could barely keep up with demand. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Price Formation in the Indonesian Beef Industry: The Role of Policy Intervention
(2017-03-21)Beef is one of the most important food products in Indonesia. Its consumption level tends to increase from time to time along with the changing of socioeconomics condition. In response to high demand for beef in domestic ... -
Competitiveness and Efficiency of Rice Production in Malaysia
(2017-02-24)Rice is one of the most essential staple foods for a large part of the world’s human population and has a large influence on human nutrition, the livelihood and food security of several billion people living across the ... -
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. ... -
The Influence of Scale on the Measurement of the Vertical Price Transmission
(2016-09-19)Measuring vertical price transmission (VPT) has become a widespread means to evaluate the performance of food value chain. To do so, agricultural economists employ time series methods on spatially aggregated data of prices ...