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Trees, crops, and rural livelihoods: Afforestation of marginal croplands in Uzbekistan
(2014-06-17)
The livelihoods of rural population in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, highly depend on irrigated agriculture. However, agricultural production is threatened by the impacts of land degradation, irrigation water scarcity and ...
Carbon Footprint ausgesuchter gartenbaulicher Kulturen im Rahmen eines Pilotprojektes zur neuen PAS 2050-1: Bewertung der Treibhausgasemissionen entlang der Wertschöpfungskette
(2014-03-26)
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Dissertation ist die Untersuchung der Treibhausgasemissionen von Spargel, Rhabarber und Erdbeeren, die mit Hilfe verschiedener Anbaumethoden zur Verfrühung des Erntezeitpunktes in Deutschland ...
Effects of Land Use Duration on Forage Quality in a Littoral Wetland of Kenya
(2014-06-30)
Wetlands are transition areas between terrestrial and aquatic environments that fulfill a wide range of ecosystem services and can be used in diverse direct and indirect ways. Direct uses include livestock grazing, crop ...
Weather Derivatives Revisited: A discourse on scalability, feasibility and Sustainability
(2014-04-02)
Over the last decade, weather derivatives have been offered in developing countries to mitigate weather risk in agriculture, but the demand remains low. Chapter One explains this demand anomaly by decomposing an insurance ...
The Role of Civil Society in the Promotion of Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurial Development: A community level empirical study in the Western Region of Ghana
(2014-07-01)
Approaches towards supporting economic growth particularly within the West African sub region have experienced structural setbacks common to most developing economies. Within growing economies such as Ghana, the development ...
Strategies for risk oriented inspections between customers and suppliers in agri-food supply chains
(2014-05-02)
One of the primary outcomes of this thesis has been to develop an assessment model of the operational and organisational structure with regard to the AMOR approach (Alliances for the Mutual Organisation of Risk oriented ...
Aspects of carbohydrate quality and their relevance for risk markers of type 2 diabetes and related health outcomes
(2014-11-26)
Concern has been raised that the commonly advocated low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet might be actually detrimental for the growing number of people with impaired IR since it favors postprandial rises in glucose and insulin, ...
Efficient Water Allocation and Water Conservation Policy Modeling in the Aral Sea Basin
(2014-06-03)
Increasing water demand in the Aral Sea basin (ASB) challenges policy makers to implement in-time and effective water management measures to mitigate both the on-going and upcoming water crisis in the region. This study ...
The relevance of dietary insulin demand and dietary protein intake during adolescence for the development of body composition and the adult GH-IGF axis
(2014-05-26)
Obese children are likely to stay obese, resulting comorbidities may emerge already in childhood and tend to persist until adulthood. So-called critical periods for overweight development are early life, the time around ......
Die Relevanz des ernährungsbedingten Insulinbedarfs und der Proteinaufnahme in der Jugend für die Entwicklung der Körperzusammensetzung und der GH-IGF Achse
Adipöse Kinder und Jugendliche haben ein ......
Die Relevanz des ernährungsbedingten Insulinbedarfs und der Proteinaufnahme in der Jugend für die Entwicklung der Körperzusammensetzung und der GH-IGF Achse
Adipöse Kinder und Jugendliche haben ein ......
On High Performance Computing in Geodesy: Applications in Global Gravity Field Determination
(2014-12-08)
Autonomously working sensor platforms deliver an increasing amount of precise data sets, which are often usable in geodetic applications. Due to the volume and quality, models determined from the data can be parameterized ...