Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliche Fakultät: E-Dissertationen
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Exploring the interconnections between climate change-gender in adaptation and mitigation contexts
(2025-05-19)Global human-driven climate change and its consequences are continuously transforming natural and socio-economic systems by altering the environment and posing threats to people’s health, well-being and livelihood stability. ... -
Precision Weed Management Enabled by Robotic and Robotics Vision
(2025-05-19)In recent decades, traditional crop and weed management has heavily relied on herbicides and mechanical weeding. These methods have caused significant environmental and agricultural challenges. Over 2 million tons of ... -
Temporary migration: Characteristics, livelihood effects, and destination choices in northern rural Bangladesh
(2025-05-15)Temporary migration is common in poor agrarian economies but remains largely under-researched. While this migration is weaker in reducing poverty than longer-term migration, the reasons many poor rural households continue ... -
Effects of Bacillus firmus and Bacterial Secondary Metabolites on the Plant Parasitic Nematode Heterodera schachtii: Impact Assessment and Mechanistic Insights
(2025-05-02)Plant-parasitic nematodes cause enormous yield losses and economic damage to a wide range of economically important crops. Although synthetic chemicals can be effective in controlling plant-parasitic nematodes, their use ... -
Understanding the Smallholder Legume-based Mixed Farming System: Application of the Whole-Farm Household Modeling in Uganda
(2025-04-30)Smallholder farming remains an important and major source of livelihood for many rural poor globally. Worldwide, over 500 million smallholder farms are accounting for 84% of all farms, which operate around 24% of all ... -
Farmland abandonment in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil: underlying, proximate causes, and predisposing factors
(2025-04-30)Along the RJ-196 road, where imperial palm trees stand near the ruins of old sugar mills and dirty pastures, the landscape tells a story of change: a story of agricultural abandonment. These abandoned sugarcane fields are ... -
Computable General Equilibrium assessment of Sustainable Development Goals in low-income countries with household detail
(2025-04-25)The major crises of our time, such as climate change, hunger, political tensions, and poverty, are linked by various channels, such as diseases, markets, and emissions. Through these connections, they have causes and ... -
Selective weed management strategies and their impacts on crop yield and biodiversity
(2025-04-25)Balancing crop productivity with biodiversity conservation in agricultural systems remains a critical challenge of our time. The emergence of autonomous and AI-driven weeding technologies, such as field robots, offers ... -
Exploring Plant Responses to Changing Environments: Integrating Phenotyping and Modeling Across Scales
(2025-04-22)Climate change and the depletion of essential resources like phosphorus are challenging agriculture by reducing water and fertilizer availability and ultimately threatening the security of the human food supply. Knowledge ... -
Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von trocknenden Pflanzenölen zum Schutz von Pflanzen gegenüber biotischen und abiotischen Stressfaktoren
(2025-04-22)Pflanzenöle bieten als „Biorationals“ für den Pflanzenschutz zahlreiche Vorteile. Vor allem die Tatsache, dass es sich dabei um natürliche Produkte mit einer geringen ökotoxikologischen Wirkung und einer hohen biologischen ... -
Spatio-Temporal Perception for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
(2025-04-22)Robotic systems have the potential to revolutionize operations in environments that are too dangerous, intricate, or demanding for humans. These environments pose notable challenges due to their dynamic and often unpredictable ... -
Sustainability of European cattle farming: Status Quo and ways forward analysed with a farm-level optimisation model
(2025-04-22)Europe is among the largest cattle producers worldwide, contributing to food security and the economy. However, the recent public debate has questioned existing production systems due to their adverse environmental effects, ... -
Investigations of Quality Aspects in UAV-Based Laser Scanning for Agriculture and Deformation Monitoring
(2025-04-17)This dissertation investigates the quality of UAV-based laser scanning and its applications in agriculture and deformation monitoring. UAV-based laser scanning is a growing technology that integrates sensors such as GNSS ... -
Colostrum Management on German Dairy Farms: Current State and Potential for Improvements
(2025-04-16)Calf rearing is the fundament of any dairy farm. In consequence, colostrum management is an important part of calf rearing because calves are passively immunized through colostrum uptake. Therefore, colostrum management ... -
Robotics in Horticulture: From Sensor Data to Autonomous Harvesting
(2025-04-16)Our agricultural production system has to cope with an increased demand for food, feed, fuel, and fiber in a range between 30% and 60% caused by a rapidly growing world population, set to reach 10 billion in 2050, and ... -
Chemical composition and in vitro evaluation of the feeding value of brewery by-products for ruminants: an Ethiopian perspective
(2025-04-16)Livestock production plays a crucial role in food security and nutrition, especially in developing countries. In Ethiopia with its huge livestock population – more than two-thirds of population own livestock – lack of feed ... -
Wetland Vegetation in East Africa – Integrity, Diversity, and Recovery Dynamics
(2025-04-15)Wetlands in East Africa provide various ecosystem services. They are important habitats for biodiversity, regulate and purify water, store carbon, and provide wild plants for food and medicinal use. At the same time, they ... -
Investigating the role of genotype, field design and environment in cereal/legume intercropping systems
(2025-04-08)Cropping system diversification through annual intercropping, such as cereal/legume, provides a pathway for agricultural production with reduced inputs of fertilizer and pesticides. However, a significant research gap still ... -
Functional characterization of inositol pyrophosphate pyrophosphatases in plants
(2025-04-07)The consequences of the climate and biodiversity crisis present an increasingly challenge for the agricultural sector to ensure food security for a growing world population. The optimal nutrient supply of plants is a ... -
Biodiversity and distribution of edible saturniidae (Lepidoptera) and their potential for mass rearing in Kenya
(2025-03-26)Edible insects including saturniid caterpillars are traditionally consumed in sub-Saharan Africa. Saturniids are utilized both as food and a source of income for rural communities. This study includes a review of available ...
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