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Sustainable agricultural intensification in the face of urbanisation, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic in India
(2024-05-16)One of the central challenges in current farming systems is to increase agricultural productivity while preserving ecosystems. Achieving a ‘sustainable intensification’ of agriculture is crucial, particularly in developing ... -
Digital credit for smallholder farmers: Evidence from Madagascar
(2023-08-16)The limited credit access for farmers compared to non-farmers in low-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been discussed broadly in literature. A recent innovation that has the ability to improve ... -
Key Stakeholders in the Common Agricultural Policy: Farmers' Economic Well-Being, Attitudes, and Environmental Behavior
(2023-02-01)The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) shapes the agri-food sector of the European Union (EU) by mainly regulating the distribution of financial support to agricultural producers. Based on the Treaty of Rome (1957), one of ... -
Nutrition transition in the Indian rural-urban interface
(2021-07-27)While economic growth in many low- and middle-income (LMICs) has led to the reduction of poverty and undernutrition, some of these LMICs are undergoing a simultaneous increase in overnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Urbanization, agricultural intensification, and environmental services: A spatial analysis
(2019-11-25)Urbanization is a global trend. Currently, about half of the world's population lives in cities. According to the latest calculations, this figure is expected to grow to 68 percent (about 6.8 billion people) by 2050. ... -
Technical and Environmental Efficiency of Grapevine Production in Mendoza, Argentina
(2018-12-12)As the Argentinean grapevine production systems have gained global visibility, the wine industry has been revitalized with a greater focus on enological quality, technology adoption, and export orientation. Although grapevine ... -
Internationalization and diversification strategies of companies from emerging economies: the case of fresh fruit export companies from Chile
(2018-12-03)The food and agricultural value chains have experienced constant changes throughout the last decades having important organizational and economic implications that have shaped global markets. Among these changes, a rapid ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Efficiency Measurement of Dairy Farmers under Integrated Cropping Sytems in Pakistan
(2016-08-01)Pakistan’s dairy sector has experienced a remarkable expansion over the past 25 years. This expansion is marked by increased milk production, an improvement in herd breed structure, enhanced extension services, and the ... -
Volatile agricultural markets, how much is oil to blame?
(2016-07-07)Over the last decade the link between agricultural and oil markets has reinforced after the introduction of biofuels as substitutes for gasoline and diesel. Although the literature on price transmission between these markets ... -
Management Options in the Buffer Zones of Protected Areas in the South Caucasus – Socio-economic and institutional Background and economic Preferences
(2016-04-04)The South Caucasus is a mosaic created of different cultures, political situations and an incredible variety of nature. Due to a very high number of plant and animal species, the Caucasus region is one of the biodiversity ... -
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 ... -
Wetterrisiken in der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion
(2015-02-16)The purpose of this dissertation is, on the one hand, to analyze the extent to which weather index-based insurance can contribute to the stabilization of weather-related income fluctuations in agriculture. Weather index-based ... -
Sustainability Standards, Welfare Impacts, and Risk Attitudes Among Coffee Farmers in Uganda
(2014-12-12)Agriculture is still the most important sector in driving economic growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. In recent times, global agricultural food systems around the world are undergoing a rapid transformation ... -
Performance of the Fruit Crop Industry in Ghana: Empirical Results and Policy Implications
(2014-12-11)This study investigates the causes of declining output performance in the Ghanaian fruit pro-duction industry. Average industrial output level is lagging far behind that of competing na-tions (for instance, the productivity ...