Browsing Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Informatik by Referee "Brümmer, Bernhard 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 ... -
Challenges of the Farmland Market: Essays on the Tension between Financialization and Regulation
(2024-01-18)In the recent decades, the German farmland marked faced enormous price increases. Those price increases caused intensive research. Among others, three streams of thought were especially in focus: farmland price ... -
Quantitative Analyses on the Effects of the EU Sugar Market Policy
(2023-05-23)The sugar market has long been excluded from the systematic reform process of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy started with the MacSharry reform in 1992. While the markets of most other agricultural products were ... -
Long-term challenges in cereal and oilseed markets – case studies analyzed with model systems
(2023-02-10)Cereals and oilseeds are important agricultural crops which are globally produced, traded and consumed. They are the most important crops in terms of area used and output quantity in the agricultural crop sector. Therefore, ... -
The last mile problem: Insights from Cambodian smallholder farmers
(2022-07-08)While the progress over recent decades in combating poverty is remarkable and has changed the economic status of many individuals around the globe, the quest for poverty reduction is ongoing. Those still enrooted in poverty ... -
Price Discovery Measures in Agricultural Economics
(2022-06-14)The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly ... -
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 ... -
21st Century Challenges in Arable Farming - Essays on the Agricultural Land Market and Drone Adoption in Germany
(2021-09-09)This cumulative thesis addresses two key challenges facing modern arable farming in Germany in the 21st century. The first challenge considered is the agricultural land market. The ongoing reduction in the limited production ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Technical efficiency, technical change and return to scale of rice, maize and agricultural production in Vietnam
(2020-07-14)The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus ... -
Price Transmission and Market Integration in Swiss Agricultural and Food Markets
(2020-07-01)This PhD thesis comprises three papers on price transmission and market integration in Swiss agricultural and food markets. In the paper "Protecting the Swiss milk market from foreign price shocks: Public border protection ... -
Food security effects of multinational brands crop protection products: Evidence from cotton-wheat zone Punjab, Pakistan
(2020-06-11)Throughout the past years, agricultural technological inputs have been actively evolving with a moderate rate of technology adoption. The adoption of agricultural technological inputs has been encouraged by, among others, ... -
Analysis of Consumer Attitudes, Preferences, and Demand for Poultry Meat in Ghana
(2020-06-09)Over the past decade, changing consumer preferences for variety, convenience, safer, and healthier attributes have been shaping meat demand patterns in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), especially in Ghana. Some of these changes ... -
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 ... -
Price cycles and synchronization in South America
(2020-02-21)Prices of agricultural products often vary in relatively stable recurring patterns around their long-run trends. These variations translate into fluctuations of selling prices as well as farm revenues. We provide an overview ...