The Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences: E-Dissertationen
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Balancing Biodiversity and Economic Viability: Farmers' Motivations and Challenges in Nature-Protected Areas
(2025-10-29)Biodiversity loss is one of the most urgent environmental challenges, particularly in nature-protected areas (NPAs), where agriculture and conservation come together. Farmers play a central role in land management and can ... -
Economic Integration and Development in Africa: A Multifaceted Examination of Trade, Infrastructure, and Resilience
(2025-10-24)Africa's path toward economic integration and development is a long-term endeavour fraught with challenges but brims with potential. This dissertation examines the role of trade facilitation measures and trade liberalization, ... -
UAV-based Imaging of Multispectral Reflectance and Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Crop Monitoring
(2025-10-24)The agri-food sector is facing significant challenges due to climate change, unpredictable weather, and rapid population growth. The growing demand to embrace advanced agricultural systems that boost productivity while ... -
Linking spatial patterns of the rhizosphere microbiota with photosynthate dynamics in maize roots
(2025-10-22)The rhizosphere serves as the boundary layer between plant roots and soil, enabling nutrient and water uptake while facilitating interactions with microorganisms through rhizodeposition. Despite its importance for plant ... -
Systemisches Denken im berufsschulischen Unterricht: exemplarisch untersucht im Ausbildungsberuf Landwirt*in
(2025-10-07)Die Landwirtschaft wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten modernisiert; technische Innovationen sowie neue Methoden der Arbeitsorganisation wurden eingeführt. In den unterschiedlichen Produktionsbereichen der Landwirtschaft kam ... -
Impacts of Supermarkets on Food Consumers and Producers in China
(2025-09-15)Supermarkets are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. Compared to traditional food markets, supermarkets are larger, more integrated, and more efficient in procurement and sales. Hence, supermarkets have ... -
Nonstationary Least-Squares Collocation
(2025-09-09)Many geodesists worldwide deal with the modelling of functions to approximate or interpolate measured data. For this purpose, a functional model is usually set up and adjusted by parameters so that it fits as precisely as ... -
Remote sensing of crop parameters using UAV-based multispectral imaging and radiative transfer models
(2025-09-05)In the face of climate change and a growing global population, it's important to increase the output of agricultural systems and improve crop resilience to challenging environmental conditions. Achieving these objectives ... -
Efficient LiDAR-Based Mapping and Localization in Outdoor Environments
(2025-08-25)Autonomous robotic systems can help people in their daily lives. Robots can do tasks people cannot or simply do not want to do. Service robots like autonomous vacuum cleaner, lawn mower or even autonomous driving taxis are ... -
The role of the food environment as a driver of diet quality in children and adolescents: A cross-sectional analysis of external and individual factors
(2025-08-01)The food environment, typically considered the place where individuals interface with food supply, is increasingly discussed for its role and opportunity to influence diet quality of individuals. Available studies suggest ... -
A likely role for stratification in present-day changes of the global ocean tides
(2025-07-16)Ocean tides are a phenomenon familiar to the general society, as they are observable in almost any coastal area. The regular rise and fall of the global oceans, caused by the gravitational attraction of Sun and Moon, affects ... -
Transcriptomic regulation of hybrid vigor in immortalized backcross populations of maize (Zea mays L.)
(2025-07-15)Heterosis is the phenomenon that heterozygous F<sub>1</sub>-hybrids outperform their distinct homozygous parental inbred lines for many agronomically important traits. Despite its economic importance and utilization for ... -
Integrated Robotic Learning and Planning for UAV-Based Information Gathering in Unknown Environments
(2025-07-09)Robots increasingly automate tasks that require costly and precise measurements at scale. Combining advances in hardware development with recent progress in machine learning-based computer vision enables robots to collect ... -
Enhancing Numerical Simulation of Mass Density in Earth's Upper Atmosphere using Data Assimilation
(2025-07-08)The atmosphere's mass density is variable in space and time and directly proportional to atmospheric drag, which decelerates all objects in the atmosphere. Thus, the mass density should be specified with high accuracy and ... -
Perennial biomass crops as sustainable feedstock for carbon dioxide fixation in building materials
(2025-07-04)The aim of a bio-based and circular economy is to help reduce dependence on fossil resources and greenhouse gas emissions. Perennial biomass crops (PBC) can offer advantages such as low fertilizer requirements which can ... -
Smart Farming Technology and the Environmental and Social Efficiency of European Agriculture
(2025-06-27)The agricultural sector faces growing pressure to meet the increasing demand for food while mitigating environmental damage and being fair to farmers and rural populations. Current policy debates in the EU emphasise steering ... -
Doing more with less - Identifying opportunities for sustainable agricultural intensification with Life Cycle Assessment
(2025-06-24)Sustainable intensification of agriculture is the challenge of the coming decades. For example, the United Nations state that demand for food will rise by 60% until 2020. The challenge is to produce "more crop per drop" ... -
Assessment of a novel active packaging material to improve the resource efficiency of food production by increasing the safety and shelf life of perishable products
(2025-06-24)The objective of this thesis was the assessment of novel active packaging materials containing the polymer poly-[2-(tert-butylamino) methylstyrene] (poly(TBAMS)) for the application in perishable food supply chains. ... -
Bioinformatics software and analyses for inference of gene functional relationships in crops
(2025-06-17)Associating interesting phenotypic traits with causal genes and elucidating the underlying gene functional relationships is of great importance to crop breeding and improvement efforts. To this end, the research presented ... -
Economic and non-economic impacts of weather shocks in Ecuador: Unequal effects on vulnerable populations
(2025-06-10)Climate change threatens development. The more frequent and severe weather extremes already have economic and non-economic consequences that deepen social inequalities and disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations. ...
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