Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (GFA) by Advisor & Referee "Brümmer, Bernhard Prof. Dr."
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Efficiency in German Aquaculture and Fisheries Production
(2025-08-18)This dissertation focuses on the efficiency of aquaculture and fisheries production in Germany. Previous studies found that the production conditions of aquaculture and fisheries are complex. The overfishing of many global ... -
Agricultural Sustainable Development: Technology Adoption and Climate Change
(2025-07-01)The dissertation with the title “Agricultural Sustainable Development: Technology Adoption and Climate Change” aims to advance our understanding of how sustainable agricultural practices can be achieved through a multifaceted ... -
Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Climate Change, Food Prices, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
(2025-04-24)Agri-food systems are integral to achieving at least 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nevertheless, agri-food systems are both a victim of and contributor to climate change. A comprehensive understanding ... -
Rethinking the Challenges of Agricultural Markets – Food Prices, Innovation, and Technical Efficiency
(2024-11-05)Global agricultural markets have reached a critical point; their immediate and long-term development has never been in higher jeopardy. As the rapid growth of the world’s population, coupled with urbanization and rising ... -
Analyzing Smallholder Farmers Performance - Farmer Typology, Technical Efficiency, Market participation, Policies and Management Practices Evidence from Limpopo Region of South Africa
(2024-02-22)Sub-Saharan Africa's population is projected to grow to almost double its population by mid- century, leading to more demand for food and agricultural products. As the main source of food and livelihood, the agricultural ... -
Challenges of the Farmland Market: Essays on the Tension between Financialization and Regulation
(2024-01-18)In the recent decades, the German farmland marked faced enormous price increases. Those price increases caused intensive research. Among others, three streams of thought were especially in focus: farmland price ... -
Quantitative Analyses on the Effects of the EU Sugar Market Policy
(2023-05-23)The sugar market has long been excluded from the systematic reform process of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy started with the MacSharry reform in 1992. While the markets of most other agricultural products were ... -
Adaptation to climate change of vineyard farms in central Chile: risk preferences, social capital, and technical efficiency
(2023-02-23)Agriculture is a major economic activity expected to increase its production by 50% to feed a planet of 9 billion people by 2050. The agricultural sector will continue to face many challenges to meet this increasing demand ... -
Long-term challenges in cereal and oilseed markets – case studies analyzed with model systems
(2023-02-10)Cereals and oilseeds are important agricultural crops which are globally produced, traded and consumed. They are the most important crops in terms of area used and output quantity in the agricultural crop sector. Therefore, ... -
Assessing the Economic and Environmental Performance of Dairy and Paddy Field Agricultural Systems in Brazil
(2022-12-14)Agricultural systems form the basis of the economy of many low- and middle-income countries, playing a pivotal role in providing food security, employment and safeguarding livelihoods in rural areas. Increasing urbanisation, ... -
The last mile problem: Insights from Cambodian smallholder farmers
(2022-07-08)While the progress over recent decades in combating poverty is remarkable and has changed the economic status of many individuals around the globe, the quest for poverty reduction is ongoing. Those still enrooted in poverty ... -
Price Discovery Measures in Agricultural Economics
(2022-06-14)The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly ... -
Looking Beyond the Direct Trade Effects of Public and Private Food Standards in the Crops sector
(2022-02-24)While tariff barriers are decreasing over time and across countries, non-tariff barriers such as food safety, quality and sustainability standards are increasing. Since these affect import and exports decisions, the analysis ... -
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 ... -
21st Century Challenges in Arable Farming - Essays on the Agricultural Land Market and Drone Adoption in Germany
(2021-09-09)This cumulative thesis addresses two key challenges facing modern arable farming in Germany in the 21st century. The first challenge considered is the agricultural land market. The ongoing reduction in the limited production ... -
Essays on European Agricultural and Trade Policies, and their Effects on Agricultural Markets
(2021-08-17)The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP) has a long tradition. After World War II, agricultural and food production in Europe was substantially weakened and unable to provide sufficient food for the ... -
A Blessing in Disguise? Effects of Oil Palm Adoption on Smallholder Farmers’ Wellbeing and Agricultural Transformation in Indonesia
(2021-06-18)Dramatic land-use change in tropical regions due to oil palm expansion has recently raised controversies in the broader public. Indonesia is one of the countries where such rapid land-use change is happening. In many ... -
Palm Oil and Rubber Price and Trader’s Behavior at International towards Local Level
(2021-06-17)The dynamics in trade are inseparable from the influence of policies, prices and the role of traders themselves. Although trade policies of exporting and importing countries differ, generally the policies support the ... -
Measuring and Decomposing of China’s Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Efficiency
(2021-06-01)China’s agricultural productivity has achieved remarkable accomplishments in agricultural sector after China’s accession to World Trade Organization (WTO). According to National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC), the ... -
Efficiency and Productivity Estimation with a Hierarchical Data Structure: An Aggregation Perspective
(2021-04-15)Repeated measurements on a subject of interest are statistically preferable than cross-sectional data due to confoundment of effect estimates in the latter. The confoundment is brought about due to between-subject heterogeneity ...