E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "von Braun, Joachim"
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Action-based and outcome-based payments for environmental services: An experimental auction for tree planting contracts in Kenya
Andeltová, Lucie (2018-06-25)The dissertation represents a first randomized field experiment that compares action-based and outcome-based payments for environmental services (PES). The main aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the ... -
Agricultural Innovation and Service Delivery through Mobile Phones: Analyses in Kenya
Baumüller, Heike (2015-07-21)Mobile phones have become the most ubiquitous telecommunication technology in developing countries. To take advantage of this trend, businesses, government agencies and non-governmental organisations are increasingly turning ... -
Analysis of fruit and vegetable supply, demand, diet quality and nutrition in Uzbekistan
Ergashev, Alisher (2017-12-12)In Uzbekistan, per capita national supply of fruit and vegetables exceeds the daily recommended amount of 400 grams by more than two times. Nevertheless, individual-level intakes remain inadequate due to the strong seasonal ... -
Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements: Incentives and Consequences on Consumption and Social Preferences
Adong, Annet (2021-04-06)Several countries currently have ongoing armed conflicts or are in post-conflict. Relatedly, the number of refugees has almost doubled in the last decade from continued armed conflicts with an increasing influx to countries ... -
Assessing the Role of Trade and Reserve Cooperation in the Food Price Dynamics: Indonesia in the Regional and Global Economic Architecture
Mujahid, Irfan (2016-04-25)The dissertation discusses the potential roles of trade and food reserve cooperation among countries in pursuing more stable food prices, with a special focus on Indonesia. The study starts by analyzing food price movements ... -
Bio-Based Energy, Rural Livelihoods and Energy Security in Ethiopia
Guta, Dawit Diriba (2015-09-21)The energy consumption in Ethiopia is based mainly (90%) on the traditional use of biomass for domestic needs, mostly using rudimentary cooking stoves. Against this background, the present study examines the importance of ... -
Biomass Energy Economics and Rural Livelihoods in Sichuan, China
Chen, Qiu (2017-07-05)This study investigates the influences of household biomass energy use on rural livelihoods in Sichuan Province of China. Of the 556 surveyed households, 432 (77.7%) households still use traditional solid biomass energy ... -
Climate Volatility and Change in Central Asia: Economic Impacts and Adaptation
Mirzabaev, Alisher (2013-07-08)Central Asia is projected to experience a significant climate change, combined with increased weather volatility. Agriculture is a key economic sector and a major source of livelihoods for Central Asia’s predominantly rural ... -
Conditional cash transfers, migration, and child welfare in rural El Salvador
Herrera Martínez, Rodolfo Eduardo (2023-06-23)Governments and households take various initiatives to protect and improve children’s welfare. The present research explores how effective some of those initiatives are in protecting child nutrition, increasing schooling, ... -
Consumption Choices: The effects of food production, markets and preferences on diets in India
Ludwig, Till (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 ... -
Dealing With Bribery in an Emission Tax Scheme: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence Based on the Indonesian Case
Iskandar, Deden Dinar (2013-09-27)This dissertation is stemmed from the necessity of finding the optimal mixture of emission tax policies that induces the compliance under the presence of bribery, by taking the case of Indonesia. The Indonesian government ... -
Decentralized energy in India and its synergies with Water-Energy-Food security (WEF) nexus
Gaur, Varun (2018-11-15)The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on traditional, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food security ... -
The Determinants of Long-Term Growth in Smallholder Agriculture in Rwanda: An Intergenerational Analysis
Musafiri, Ildephonse (2015-06-03)The current study explores the determinants of long-term growth in small-scale agriculture in a rural area of Rwanda, with a special focus on intergenerational mobility of income and poverty over the past two and a half ... -
Disseminating sustainable intensification practices: Empirical evidence from Ghana
Mellon Bedi, Shaibu (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 ... -
Economic disruptions, markets and food security
Kankwamba, Henry (2020-12-30)Idiosyncratic and covariate shocks have considerable impacts on household food security and welfare. While impacts of covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have been widely documented, the mitigating role of infrastructure ... -
Economics of consumer and business behavior related to environment: studies in Belarus
Shershunovich, Yauheniya (2023-11-23)Environmental problems constitute a major risk to humanity. This thesis empirically analyzes the implications of consumer and business behavior related to environment on three levels: on a micro-; on a meso-; and on a ... -
The Economics of Irrigation Systems in Ethiopia: Technological and Institutional Analysis
Bekele, Rahel Deribe (2021-12-14)The Government of Ethiopia has made a strong commitment to developing and expanding various types of irrigation systems, technologies, and institutions among smallholder farmers. As a result, the irrigated area in the ... -
Economics of Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management and Poverty in Eastern Africa: The Extent, Drivers, Costs and Impacts
Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo (2016-05-24)Land degradation – defined by the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative as a “reduction in the economic value of ecosystem services and goods derived from land” – is a serious impediment to improving rural livelihoods ... -
The Effect of Government Transfers on Poverty and Inequality: Three Different Perspectives about Decentralization and Social Policies in Bolivia
Evia Salas, Pablo Ernesto (2018-10-12)Poverty and inequality in Bolivia have reduced to a great extent in the last 20 years in Bolivia. There are mixed opinions regarding the role of the state in this overall positive result, and consistent evidence of state ... -
Effects of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes and utilisation of preventive health services: Evidence from rural south-western Uganda
Rukundo, Emmanuel Nshakira (2018-10-23)With the renewed focus on health for all through universal health coverage, community-based health insurance has been proposed both as a building block for health systems financing and also providing financial protection ...