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Sustainability certification, climate risk perception and smallholder coffee production in Rwanda
(2022-07-19)Coffee production is an important source of export revenue for producing countries, especially for small, agriculture-dependent economies like Rwanda. Coffee production is a key driver in the development and improvement ... -
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 ... -
The role of social capital in adoption of sustainable practices in Chile and Indonesia
(2021-07-02)The world food and non-food needs are expected to increase from 2005/2007 to 2050 by 60 percent, raising concerns on how this demand will be fulfilled sustainably (Le Mouël and Forslund, 2017). To cope with this increase ... -
Essays on Agricultural Technology Adoption, Value Chain Development, and Intra-Household Decision-Making
(2020-10-28)While considerable progress has been made over the last 30 years in poverty reduction, about ten percent of the people in the world still live in extreme poverty. It is the field of economics that formulate theories, devise ... -
The Role of Extension and Sustainable Soil Management in Smallholder Agriculture - Evidence from Ethiopia
(2020-09-24)Rising demand for agricultural commodities coupled with population growth, climate change, declining soil fertility, environmental degradation and rural poverty in the develop-ing world call for strategies to sustainably ... -
Policies and Management Practices for Sustainable Oil Palm - Evidence from Indonesia
(2020-07-17)Changing consumption patterns and a growing world population have resulted in an increased demand for vegetable oil. Due to its price advantages and suitable chemical properties, in particular the demand for palm oil has ... -
Social-Ecological Preferences and Urbanization in India
(2019-05-15)Urbanization has been recognized as one of the major forces in shaping the 21st century on planet earth. The by far largest increase in the share of humans living in cities is expected to take place in the Global South. ... -
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 ... -
Communication Networks and Nutrition-sensitive Extension in Rural Kenya: Essays on Centrality, Network Effects and Technology Adoption
(2018-05-29)Globally, 767 million people live on less than US$ 1.90 a day and two billion people are malnourished. Especially affected by poverty and malnutrition is the rural population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), who depend on the ... -
Contract Farming in Developing Countries - A Behavioral Perspective on Contract Choice and Compliance
(2017-11-09)Although there is a lot of evidence for the positive welfare effects of contract farming, it is not clear how to integrate farmers into contracts and how to maintain stable long-term-relationships between farmers and ... -
Social standards, worker welfare and women's empowerment in modern agri-food systems: A case study of horticultural wage workers in Ghana
(2017-06-27)The world agricultural trade system has experienced tremendous changes in recent years. Agri-food systems are increasingly shifting towards more vertically integrated production systems that are based on commercialization ... -
Financial decision making in rural India: poverty, financial literacy and investment decisions
(2016-08-30)Poverty remains a pressing problem in rural areas of the developing world. This is also true for India. Expanding the rural financial system with a focus on increasing access to credit has been an important approach for ... -
Mobile money adoption and household welfare in Uganda
(2015-12-16)Over the last 10 years mobile money has emerged as an important innovation with a potential to increase financial access in developing countries. Mobile money is making an important contribution to financial inclusion in ... -
An analysis of the dynamics of two high-value export chains: smallholder participation, standards and trust
(2015-09-02)Globalization and growing demand for high-quality food have facilitated and increased international trade in food products and at the same time opened up new and promising business opportunities for farmers worldwide. Given ... -
Designing incentive mechanisms for sustainable land management: evidence from Indonesia
(2015-08-12)Over the last five decades, the growing demand for ecosystem services, such as food, water and fuel has led to the most rapid and extensive changes in ecosystems in human history. Examples for these transformations include ... -
Traditional Food Crop Production and Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Case of Finger Millet in Western Kenya
(2014-03-07)Despite remarkable advances, overcoming rural poverty and food insecurity in developing countries remains one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Increasing production and income opportunities in the agricultural ... -
Food Safety and Quality Standards in the Thai Horticultural Sector
(2013-05-21)The growth of the agricultural sector is crucial to reduce poverty in developing countries. Poverty is still a mainly rural phenomenon and more than two thirds of the world’s poor continue to live in rural areas, most of ... -
Household Energy Consumption and Dependency on Common Pool Forest Resources: The Case of Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya.
(2013-03-19)Biomass is still the dominant source of energy used by most rural households in the developing world. Current use patterns have been linked to adverse effects on forest resources. Alternative fuels such as kerosene could ...