Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Mußhoff, Oliver Prof. Dr."
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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 ... -
Einkommensrisiken und Extremereignisse in der deutschen Landwirtschaft – Risikoanalysen und Untersuchungen des unternehmerischen Entscheidungsverhaltens
(2023-07-07)Extreme yield and price fluctuations burden farms, may threaten their viability and lead to public disaster relief. Therefore, efficient and well-planned farm risk management is crucial for agriculture and agricultural ... -
Smallholders in highland regions of Southeast Asia: Agricultural land-use transitions, farmer risk preferences, the effects of poor vision on economic farm performance, and a note on scientific publishing in the field of development studies
(2023-06-27)Smallholders play an important role in feeding a growing world population and contributing to the eradication of hunger and poverty. It is estimated that there are more than 475 million smallholders in the world and recent ... -
Diversified Farming Systems – An evaluation of ecological benefits, economic costs & risks farmers face
(2023-03-17)Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in cultural landscapes are declining due to increasing agricultural production. Human population growth and changing consumption patterns cause higher demands on agricultural ... -
Financial Inclusion in Kenya: The Role of Mobile Financial Services
(2023-01-12)Access to Mobile Financial Services (MFS), which include mobile payments, savings, insurance, and digital credit, enables mobile phone users to leapfrog over the deficiencies of conventional banking structures and ... -
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 ... -
Policy interventions, perceptions, and pro-environmental behavior for sustainable oil palm cultivation in Indonesia
(2021-12-01)In the last decades, oil palm cultivation has increased rapidly to meet the rising demands for vegetable oils worldwide. While in the 1970s, two million tons of palm oil on 3.3 million hectares of land were produced ... -
Satellitenbasierte Indexversicherungen zur Absicherung des witterungsbedingten Produktionsrisikos in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft
(2021-11-04)This cumulative dissertation examines the hedging effectiveness of satellite-based weather index insurance for both annual crops, such as rice and wheat, and also perennial olive trees and pine stands. Unlike traditional ... -
The Acceptance and Profitability of Mixed Cropping with Legumes and Non-Legumes
(2021-11-04)Mixed cropping, the simultaneous cultivation of two or more coexisting crops in one field, is one possibility to increase biodiversity within farming systems. However, adoption of mixed cropping systems is challenging for ... -
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 ... -
Analysing Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption of new Technology under the Consideration of Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences
(2021-08-23)Technology adoption in agriculture plays a vital role in coping with exponential population growth. Since the Green Revolution in the 1960s, researchers have been extensively investigating issues and challenges in technology ... -
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 ... -
Akzeptanz des Ausbaus der erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung von Raumdaten und Gerechtigkeitsaspekten
(2020-12-15)The present dissertation deals with the question of which factors influence the acceptance of the expansion of renewable energies at the local level. The focus is on the three renewable energy sources wind, solar and ... -
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, ... -
Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft - Empirische Untersuchungen zur Nutzung von Smartphones
(2020-03-06)The dissertation deals with four different questions concerning the use of smartphones and smartphone apps in agriculture. Due to their computer-like computing power, mobile internet reception and high mobility, smartphones ... -
The Economics and Ethics of Farm Animal Welfare - The Case of Chick Culling and its Alternatives
(2020-02-19)The use of highly specialized breeds in poultry production has led to the situation in which fattening layer-type males is not economically viable, when competing with conventional broiler meat. The vast majority of male ... -
Agricultural and societal perspectives on pasture-based livestock production systems in Germany
(2019-12-06)The dissertation studies factors and attitudes influencing farmers’ behavior and societal preferences in context of pasture-based livestock production systems. The particular topics are the adoption of grazing practices ... -
Groundwater Use and Management along the Rural-Urban Interface:
(2019-11-15)Groundwater has become one of the most important freshwater sources worldwide. Population growth, socio-economic development, changing consumption patterns as well as the expansion of irrigated agriculture have increased ... -
Versicherungen als Risikomanagementinstrumente in der Landwirtschaft - Über staatliche Unterstützung und die Beurteilung satellitenbasierter Indexversicherungen
(2019-05-27)Increasing price and production risks in agriculture require an effective on-farm risk man-agement. Against this background, this dissertation focusses on agricultural insurance. There-fore, the first part of this dissertation, ... -
Analyse des Entscheidungsverhaltens landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer: Anwendung von Discrete Choice Experimenten in den Bereichen Tierwohl, Weidehaltung und Ackerbau
(2019-02-22)The thesis contributes to the understanding of farmers decision behaviour. Preferences and decisions of farmers were analyzed using discrete choice experiments. In detail, the thesis deals with the topics animal welfare, ...