Auflistung nach Autor "Qaim, Matin"
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Access to Electricity and Gendered Labor Allocation: Insights from Ethiopia
(2025-06-23)Electrification typically promotes economic development and enhances household wellbeing. However, how electrification affects the economic activities of different demographic groups is not yet sufficiently understood. ... -
Adoption and Economic and Environmental Impact of Laser-assisted Precision Land Leveling in Northwestern India
(2025-05-27)Globally, agricultural production systems need to become more sustainable to meet future food demand without overexploiting natural resources. Northwestern India, a region with highly intensive agricultural production, is ... -
Adoption and Impacts of Animal Health Management Practices in Kenya’s Dairy Sector
(2025-05-26)Current trends in population growth and increased demand for animal-sourced foods (ASF) present opportunities for many livestock farmers in the Global South. However, poor health conditions in livestock production continue ... -
Agrivoltaics increases public acceptance of solar energy production on agricultural land
(2025-02-14)Competition for land is a key challenge for decarbonized energy transitions. Open-space solar energy farms are gaining in importance but have large land requirements and displace agricultural production. Agrivoltaics offers ... -
An inquiry into labor conditions across key rural sectors in Africa
(2025-01-06)While agriculture remains a key source of livelihoods in rural Africa, employment in other economic sectors is gaining in importance. However, details of the labor conditions are under-researched. Here, we examine labor ... -
Aspirations and Livelihood Diversification in Rural Africa
(2024-12-27)Many people in rural Africa still rely on smallholder agriculture as their main source of livelihood. Yet pursuing other economic activities beyond farming to diversify incomes becomes increasingly important. In this paper, ... -
Consumption Choices: The effects of food production, markets and preferences on diets in India
(2019-12-20)The choice of which food to consume is often an individual choice. Yet, food and nutrition insecurity presents a situation that those who suffer from it have rarely chosen consciously. Availability of foods, their accessibility ... -
Cost of Ending Hunger – Consequences of Complacency, and Financial Needs for SDG2 Achievement
(2024-05)This study follows from an earlier assessment carried out by ZEF and FAO in 2020, which identified policy actions and investments needed to achieve SDG2 by 2030. The 2020 study used a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) ... -
Crop biotechnology in developing countries: A conceptual framework for ex ante economic analyses
(1998-11)It is now widely acknowledged that biotechnology will have significant implications for development. While biotechnology’s potential for low income economies is still the subject of controversy, this paper argues that it ... -
Disseminating sustainable intensification practices: Empirical evidence from Ghana
(2022-06-02)Adoption of sustainable intensification (SI) of agricultural practices is essential for increasing food production in more sustainable way. Dis-adoption of agricultural technologies is pervasive among smallholder farmers ... -
Drought Shocks and Labor Reallocation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
(2023-10)We study how rural households in Ethiopia adapt to droughts through labor reallocation. By using three waves of panel data and exploiting spatial-temporal variations in drought exposure, we find that households reduce ... -
E-commerce improves dietary quality of rural households in China
(2023-06)E-commerce is gaining importance in the food sector of many countries, and its potential influence on people’s access to food and dietary choices is yet to be thoroughly investigated. In this study, we analyze data from a ... -
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. ... -
Economics of Female Labor Force Participation: Overcoming Barriers in Pakistan
(2024-05-28)The active participation of females in the labor force advances gender equality and empowers them to access economic opportunities. The thesis empirically investigates the dynamics of female labor force participation and ... -
Effects of recurrent rainfall shocks on poverty and income distribution in rural Ecuador
(2025-02-14)Climate change is associated with an increasing frequency of extreme weather events, which can severely reduce people’s welfare, especially in the Global South. Here, we analyse the impacts of rainfall shocks – including ... -
Effects of using the internet on smallholder farmers’ income and dietary quality in Bangladesh
(2025-06-23)The internet is expanding at a rapid rate, which is true even in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. The internet affects how people produce and consume food and other goods and services. This may also have ... -
The evolving role of farm and off-farm jobs in rural Africa
(2024-06)Livelihood sources in rural Africa are diverse and dynamic. Using recent primary data from four African countries — Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia — we consider regions with different conditions related to climate, ... -
Farmer-friendly delivery of veterinary services: Experimental insights from the Kenyan dairy sector
(2023-09)Poor health conditions of livestock cause sizeable losses for many farmers in the Global South. Veterinary services, including vaccinations, could help but often fail to reach farmers under typical smallholder conditions. ... -
Household food safety, dietary diversity and malnutrition in an urban context: Evidence from urban Ghana
(2024-05-15)Food safety, dietary diversity and malnutrition are significant issues confronting urban households. A nutrition and epidemiological transition is occurring in developing countries, leading to a double burden of malnutrition ... -
How kinship and marriage customs influence nutritional outcomes among males and females
(2024-04)Malnutrition in its various forms is a serious problem in many countries, contributing to human suffering, large healthcare costs, and hampered economic and human development. While various policies to reduce malnutrition ...
