Browsing Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Informatik by Advisor "Qaim, Matin Prof. Dr."
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Links between international trade, local food production, and household living standards: Empirical insights from West Africa
(2022-06-21)Sustainable food production, responsible consumption, poverty reduction, and decent living standards are important global objectives reflected in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In achieving ... -
A Blessing in Disguise? Effects of Oil Palm Adoption on Smallholder Farmers’ Wellbeing and Agricultural Transformation in Indonesia
(2021-06-18)Dramatic land-use change in tropical regions due to oil palm expansion has recently raised controversies in the broader public. Indonesia is one of the countries where such rapid land-use change is happening. In many ... -
Land-use change, socioeconomic welfare, and gender roles in rural Indonesia
(2021-06-15)Global population and income growth has driven the demand for agricultural land. This rapid conversion of land use to agriculture has affected the social and economic welfare of local communities within the landscape. ... -
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 ... -
Can modern food retailers improve diets and nutrition in urban Africa? Empirical evidence from Zambia
(2020-06-03)In many developing countries, food environments are changing rapidly, with modern food retailers – such as supermarkets and convenience stores – increasingly replacing or complementing traditional food retailers. In ... -
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 ... -
Food Security and Dietary Patterns among the Urban Poor in Africa
(2019-05-13)Persistent poverty and rapid urbanization are important development challenges in most African countries. Although the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in Africa could be reduced over the last few decades, ... -
Technology Adoption, Productivity, Efficiency, and Risk Exposure in the Ethiopian Small Farm Sector
(2018-07-20)Poverty and food insecurity are key global challenges. In the history of agriculture, advances in technology have contributed to increased food supply. Particularly, the green revolution has brought remarkable productivity ... -
Measuring nutrition: Comparing different nutritional assessment tools and analyzing intra-household inequality in rural Kenya.
(2018-06-12)Good and improved nutrition is an essential driver of human development, a platform for progress in health and equality. But in spite of notable improvements in achieving global nutrition goals, the malnutrition and food ... -
Land-use change and rural development in Indonesia: Economic, institutional and demographic aspects of deforestation and oil palm expansion
(2018-06-06)Changes in land use, such as deforestation, expansion of sedentary agriculture and intensification of agricultural systems, significantly altered economic and ecological conditions in many regions of the world. In recent ... -
Effects of oil palm expansion and other related land-use changes on the livelihoods of rural households in Indonesia
(2018-05-31)The demand for agricultural land is globally increasing due to population growth and dietary diversification. As the availability of agricultural land is limited, much of the cropland expansion is occurring at the expense ... -
Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages in the Kenyan Small Farm Sector: The Role of Commercialization, Technology Adoption, and Extension
(2018-05-22)Global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty have declined over the past decades, but a situation of food and nutrition security for all is yet to be achieved, and extreme poverty is still widespread. Around 800 million people ... -
Demand and Design Considerations for Smallholder Farmers’ Weather Index Insurance Products
(2018-02-01)This cumulative dissertation discusses a range of topics related to the demand for and considerations around product design of weather index insurance instruments aimed at smallholder farmers’ risk management. The second ... -
Nutrition transition in urban Kenya: The role of supermarkets and nutritional knowledge
(2017-08-08)Nutrition transition is described as a shift in demographic and epidemiologic patterns; fostered through economic development, globalization, urbanization, and technological improvements. Depending on the stage of transition ... -
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. ... -
Essays on the Effects of Growth, Public Expenditures and Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries
(2017-07-14)The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays ... -
Can Sustainability Standards Promote Socioeconomic Development in the Small Farm Sector? Insights from Coffee Producers in Uganda
(2017-05-31)Sustainable food production and consumption are important goals for an increasing number of consumers, policy makers, and other actors along global food chains. This is also reflected in the 12th United Nations’ Sustainable ... -
Supermarket contracts and household welfare in the small farm sector: Panel data evidence from Kenya
(2017-05-30)In many developing countries, the food retail sector is rapidly modernizing. With rising urban middle classes, supermarkets are increasingly replacing wet markets and other traditional retail outlets as the preferred place ... -
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. ...