Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Referee "von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan Prof. Dr."
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Rethinking the Challenges of Agricultural Markets – Food Prices, Innovation, and Technical Efficiency
(2024-11-05)Global agricultural markets have reached a critical point; their immediate and long-term development has never been in higher jeopardy. As the rapid growth of the world’s population, coupled with urbanization and rising ... -
Essays on Antibiotic Awareness and Antibiotic Use among Farmers in East China
(2024-06-10)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is among the top 10 threats to global health and imposes substantial economic burdens (WHO, 2012; O’Neill et al., 2016). Antimicrobials used in food animals, exceeding the amount used in human ... -
Beyond the Blemishes
(2023-11-09)A significant amount of food produced worldwide is lost and wasted along the supply chain. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that approximately 13 % of food is lost between harvest ... -
Economic Implications of Changing Household Management of Basic Needs for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainability Policy, an Illustration of Food and Energy
(2023-02-01)The sharp reduction of extreme poverty worldwide and improvement to living standards in the last 20 years are remarkable and imply that a large number of people in developing countries are able to afford more than their ... -
Measuring meat consumption with recommendations towards more sustainability
(2023-02-01)The broad public calls for a transformation of food systems and addresses a trilemma by emphasising environmental effects, but also referring to health risks associated with meat-heavy diets. In addition, citizens of many ... -
Die Einkommenssituation der Landwirtschaft – Empirische Untersuchungen des wirtschaftlichen Wohlergehens und der ökonomischen Resilienz
(2022-07-26)The income situation of agriculture is an ongoing theme in the agricultural policy debate. The main points of discussion are whether, first, the German/European agricultural statistics are meaningful for an assessment of ... -
Looking Beyond the Direct Trade Effects of Public and Private Food Standards in the Crops sector
(2022-02-24)While tariff barriers are decreasing over time and across countries, non-tariff barriers such as food safety, quality and sustainability standards are increasing. Since these affect import and exports decisions, the analysis ... -
Estimating and Comparing Market Efficiency Frontiers
(2021-09-21)Previous studies employing error correction models (ECMs) that include threshold effects in long-run equilibrium relationships (threshold cointegration) as well as in error correction (threshold autoregression; threshold ... -
Essays on European Agricultural and Trade Policies, and their Effects on Agricultural Markets
(2021-08-17)The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP) has a long tradition. After World War II, agricultural and food production in Europe was substantially weakened and unable to provide sufficient food for the ... -
Efficiency and Productivity Estimation with a Hierarchical Data Structure: An Aggregation Perspective
(2021-04-15)Repeated measurements on a subject of interest are statistically preferable than cross-sectional data due to confoundment of effect estimates in the latter. The confoundment is brought about due to between-subject heterogeneity ... -
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 ... -
Economic Policy in Global Commodity Markets - Methods, Efficiency and Trade-offs
(2020-10-14)Globally, policy-makers increasingly shift value from economic towards social and environmental outcomes of the economy. Successfully achieving economic, social and environmental goals jointly inevitably leads to trade-offs ... -
The Effects of Marketing Contracts and Resource-providing Contracts: Comparisons in the Small Farm Sector in Ghana
(2020-08-12)Agri-food systems in developing countries are undergoing a rapid transformation, characterized by modernizing supply chains and the rising importance of highervalue products. Participation of smallholder farmers in the ... -
Food sustainability standards and agricultural cooperatives: implications for the small farm sector of Côte d’Ivoire
(2020-07-23)Sustainability standards such as Fairtrade, UTZ, and Rainforest Alliance have recently gained importance in global value chains, with some of the major tropical commodities seeing significant increases in the share of their ... -
Trade and Welfare Effects of Standards in Agricultural Markets
(2020-06-09)Integrating developing countries (DCs) into the global trading system is key to their economic development. To that effect, several rounds of trade negotiations have reduced tariffs to a historic low. Despite this remarkable ... -
Farmers, Peers, and Traders. Application of social networks in modern agricultural systems
(2020-04-30)Social networks can serve as an instrument to link agents with each other over space and time. The emerging pattern can display the flow of information, the diffusion of technology or the trade flow of products between all ... -
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 ... -
Supporting biodiversity in European vineyards: Possibilities for winegrowers and economic implications
(2019-10-01)Viniculture is economically important for the agricultural sector in the European Union (EU). Beyond the economic importance, viniculture also affects the environment. Based on its nature as a permanent crop and its ... -
Assessing the Role of Women Empowerment for Food Security and Nutrition: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia and India
(2019-07-18)Equality for women in all areas of life is not only a fundamental human right, but is also a crucial prerequisite for achieving human development goals. Women constitute half of the world ... -
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 ...