Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Product Differentiation and Consumer Preferences for Sustainable Food
(2014-08-27)There is growing evidence that the current agri-food system is not sustainable, because major environmental and ethical issues challenge the global development. Against this complex background it becomes clear, that ... -
Effects of Country-of-Origin and Benchmarking on Credibility of Food Quality Assurance Schemes
(2013-04-02)In response to the proliferation of global private food standards, some developing countries are establishing their own national food standards as a way to position themselves in major food markets. However, country-of-origin ... -
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 ... -
Empirical studies on lending volume decisions, the number of lending approvals, and lending rates attitudes: Estimation based on household data from rural Shandong, China
(2013-03-15)This study uses household level data collected in Shandong Province of China to study rural formal financial institutions’ lending volume decisions, the number of lending approvals, and respondents’ attitude towards interest ... -
Economic Theory and Econometric Methods in Spatial Market Integration Analysis
(2012-08-01)The study of Spatial Market Integration (SMI) has been of great concern for agricultural economists, with the Takayama and Judge Price and Allocation Model (TJM), in which prices are bounded by the Spatial Equilibrium ...