The Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences: E-Dissertationen
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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. ... -
Drivers and Cost Implications of Overnutrition in Kenya
(2025-06-10)Kenya's population is experiencing a rising prevalence of overweight and obesity. This trend poses a significant concern, as overweight and obesity are major risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), leading to ... -
International agri-food trade: country level stability and firms' labor market interactions
(2025-06-10)International trade of agri-food products is essential for global food security. However, the trade network has faced numerous challenges at different scales — global, regional, and firm-level. These include recent shocks ... -
Radar-Based Scene Understanding for Autonomous Vehicles
(2025-06-04)Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize transportation by redmoving instance segmentation leverages the advantages of radar sensors and leads to exceptional results, the predictions are ideal for enhancing ... -
UAV-Based Methods for Biomass and Biodiversity Monitoring in Grasslands
(2025-06-03)Grasslands are critical ecosystems that provide essential ecological services, including biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, water regulation, soil stabilization, and habitat provision for wildlife. However, ... -
Effects of mucilage and extracellular polymeric substances on soil gas diffusion
(2025-06-03)Gas exchange in the soil is determined by the size and connectivity of air-filled pores. Thereby, water saturation, soil compaction, and organic matter fraction are the main barriers for gas movement in soil. For optimal ... -
Evaluating the Feasibility of Hydrologic Parameter Transferability to Ungauged Domains Under Data-Sparse Conditions in Nigeria
(2025-06-03)Hydrologic modelling has become a vital tool for formulating policies to plan and manage water resources sustainably. However, inadequate or non-available hydro-meteorological datasets significantly hinder its application ... -
Three Economic Essays on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Africa’s Agricultural Sector
(2025-06-02)How does climate change affect Africa's agricultural sector, and how do households and individuals respond to these challenges? This dissertation presents three empirical investigations of these fundamental questions, ... -
Designing conservation-incentives for Tanzania’s ecological corridors: cost-effectiveness and behavioral determinants
(2025-05-27)The global forest resources assessments show that the world lost about 420 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2020, mainly due to deforestation. Between 2010 and 2020, Africa experienced the highest annual net ... -
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 ... -
Interpretable Machine Learning for Image-based Harvest-readiness Prediction of Cauliflower
(2025-05-21)Cauliflower cultivation is subject to high-quality control criteria during sales, highlighting the importance of accurate harvest timing. However, accurately determining harvest-readiness is challenging because the cauliflower ... -
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 ...
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