Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Yu, Xiaohua Prof. Dr."
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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 ... -
Intention, Impact and Commitment in Geographical Indication of Origin: The Case of Kintamani Bali Arabica Coffee
(2023-04-25)Market extension and differentiation strategies that specify products based on the geographical indication of origins (GIs) play an important role in countering the impact of neoliberal policy in the agri-food industry. ... -
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 consumer preferences for ethically certified food products
(2022-07-08)This cumulative dissertation contributes to the mounting understanding of the multitude of factors that influence consumers to opt for food products with ethical or sustainable attributes. It consists of four independent ... -
Essays on Holiday Weight Gain, Meat Consumption and Dietary Structure, and Nutritional Outcome of Food Facility in China
(2021-07-21)As an emerging economy with the largest population, China has undergone rapid economic growth in the last decades. As a result, food patterns and dietary structure in typical Chinese household has changed drastically. A ... -
Entrepreneurship in Agriculture – Farmer Typology, Determinants and Values
(2021-06-10)Entrepreneurship in agriculture is becoming of greater importance with the changing framework conditions for agricultural production. The present dissertation analyses this topic from different angles in order to gain a ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Applied Economics
(2020-12-08)The first essay of the thesis analyzes the productive efficiency of dairy farms located across the rural-urban transition area of the Southern Indian city of Bangalore. For that purpose a stochastic frontier analysis is ... -
Technical efficiency, technical change and return to scale of rice, maize and agricultural production in Vietnam
(2020-07-14)The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus ... -
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 ... -
Industrial Policy, Market Structure, and Market Power in Agribusinesses of China
(2019-05-29)The Chinese agri-food industry is evolving into an imperfectly competitive market in our observation. The issue deserves more attention from the policymakers since any negligible departure from the perfectly competitive ... -
Contract Farming in Vietnam: Empirical Research on Marketing Determinants, Farm Performance and Technical Efficiency of the Export-oriented Rice Sector in the Mekong River Delta
(2019-01-25)Better market linkages and higher farm benefits for smallholder farmers in emerging and developing economies have received remarkable attention worldwide (Minot and Roy, 2007; Kumar et al., 2011). In this regard, contract ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Mobile Phone Technologies and their Impacts on Household Welfare and Rural Development in Uganda
(2017-08-02)In the past two decades, since around 1995, mobile phone (MP) technologies have been widely adopted in developing countries – with the highest penetration rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, to levels of about 89% for adults. ... -
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. ... -
Economics of Weather Index-Based Insurance: Analysis of Smallholder Farmers' Preferences and the Impact of Insurance on Productivity in Kenya
(2016-11-29)Climatic risks are a major challenge for rural communities, especially those whose livelihoods directly depend on agriculture. Weather extremes affect crop productivity not only through the direct relationship between ... -
Environmental Efficiency Measurement of Grassland Grazing using Stochastic Distance Function on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China
(2015-09-09)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 ... -
Dynamic Food Demand in China and International Nutrition Transition
(2014-11-18)Economic growth followed by urbanization and food supply modernization in developing countries would lead to substantial changes in food demand. Global agri-food systems are undergoing a rapid transformation towards ...