Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Title
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Essays on the Dietary Pattern and Consumer Preference for Sustainable Food
(2022-07-21)With the rapid economic growth, the dietary pattern has undergone great changes in China. The traditional dietary structure high in staple food and vegetables is evolving into Western food diet containing a lot of fat (Guo ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Trust, Mobile Phones, and Nutrition among Pastoralists in Northern Kenya
(2020-09-08)The arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) cover close to 90 per cent of Kenya's landmass and are home to nearly 30 per cent of its population. Historically, the ASAL have however suffered from limited political representation, ... -
Establishment and application of real-time PCR-based methods to study the epidemiology of Fusarium Head Blight
(2006-09-19)Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a disease of cereal crops, which has a severe impact on wheat production worldwide. Apart from reducing the yield and impairing grain quality, FHB leads to contamination of grain with mycotoxins. ... -
Estimating and Comparing Market Efficiency Frontiers
(2021-09-21)Previous studies employing error correction models (ECMs) that include threshold effects in long-run equilibrium relationships (threshold cointegration) as well as in error correction (threshold autoregression; threshold ... -
Estimating the Economic Value of forest ecosystem services using stated preference methods: the case of Kakamega forest, Kenya
(2016-02-16)According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in the next 40 years, tropical forests are among the biomes projected to lose habitat and species most rapidly. Yet these biomes provide numerous ecosystem services that ... -
Estimation of Genetic Parameters and Evaluation of Breeding Program Designs with a Focus on Dairy Cattle in Low Input Production Systems
(2013-07-15)Due to restrictions on feeding and management on low input farms, there are vast differences between cattle on low input and conventional farms. Therefore, variance components of the same traits recorded in low input and ... -
Estimation of the Long-Run Food Price Equilibrium in Germany, the U.S. and Europe
(2013-07-31)In this thesis, so far insufficiently considered characteristics of long-run equilibriums in food markets are investigated. For this purpose, multivariate time series methodologies, which were developed for the estimation ... -
Der Ethanolmarkt der EU27 und der USA im Jahr 2023
(2014-05-28)This research paper pursues two objectives. Firstly, those factors are identified that have significant impact on the fuel ethanol market of the EU27 and the USA until the year 2023. Secondly, different scenarios are ... -
Ethische Grundlagen und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven einer artgerechteren landwirtschaftlichen Nutztierhaltung
(2015-05-26)The animal agriculture and animal husbandry are the focus of public and political debate. The triggers are a number of food scandals like proven dioxin in eggs or unmarked horsemeat in products on the one hand and on the ... -
Europäisches Rassen-Monitoring und Pathogenesestudien zur Turcicum-Blattdürre (Exserohilum turcicum) an Mais (Zea mays L.)
(2018-05-28)In the last few years, the importance of Exserohilum turcicum, the causal agent of Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB), has increased in European maize growing regions. The infestation of maize leafs by NCLB reduces the ... -
Eutergesundheitsmanagement in Milchviehherden mit sehr niedrigem Herdensammelmilchzellgehalt in Niedersachsen
(2011-04-07)Mastitis causes a reduction in financial return, increases production costs and decreases milk quality. To combat mastitis it is necessary to use prevention as well as therapy. The main ... -
Evaluating a Collection of Agronomic Traits to Better Understand the Importance of Epistasis and Epistasis by Environment Interaction in Maize.
(2024-04-05)Maize, a key cereal crop, stands alongside wheat and rice in global importance. Its domestication from teosinte in southern Mexico 10,000 years ago marked a turning point in human agriculture. Over the centuries, maize has ... -
Evaluating the Effects of Changing Dietary Patterns on Agricultural Sectors, Trade, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the EU
(2024-08-09)Reducing the consumption of animal-based foods and shifting to a more plant-based diet is seen by many scientists as a contribution to combating climate change and improving the environment and public health (WILLETT et ... -
Evaluation and optimization of the effectiveness of Attracap® and its environmental influences: A biological soil insecticide to control wireworms (Agriotes spp.)
(2024-12-19)The use of entomopathogenic fungi as biocontrol agents in agricultural pest management offers a promising alternative to chemical pesticides, aligning with the increasing global emphasis on sustainable farming practices. ... -
Evaluation eines Schulinterventionsprojekts zur Steigerung des Obst- und Gemüsekonsums bei Kindern in niedersächsischen Grundschulen
(2016-03-24)According to the KiGGS-Study, German children and adolescents do not eat the recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables. A higher intake has been associated with a lower risk of developing cancer, cardiovascular disease, ... -
Evaluation of near infrared spectroscopy for prediction of quality attributes and authentication of green coffee beans
(2020-10-14)Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world as well as an important commodity for several exporting and importing countries, including Indonesia. There are several quality parameters of the green beans that ... -
Evaluation of non-invasive biomarkers for behaviour traits in beef and dairy cattle
(2015-02-03)This work investigates different non-invasive biomarkers for behaviour traits in beef and dairy cow. After a general introduction on behaviour tests, animal stress and biomarkers, the work is divided into three parts: In ...