Innovation is essential for agricultural and economic development, especially in today’s rapidly changing global environment. While farmers have been recognised as one of the key sources of innovation, many studies on ...

In recent decades, Bangladesh’s economy has undergone a remarkable structural transformation. Agricultural wages are becoming high while staple food prices are becoming volatile. In the meantime, agriculture has experienced ...

The aim of this thesis is to assess the role of international quality standards in context of free trade agreements, taking into account international supply chains and global value chains. An intensive literature review ...

The bottom line of this study is to examine the role of natural resource endowments for economic growth and institutional quality with special focus on Kazakhstan and CIS countries. It is documented that resource rents ...

Wetterderivate sind relativ neue Instrumente im Risikomanagement. Sie bestimmen aus einem objektiv messbaren Wetterindex ihre Auszahlungssummen und überwinden somit einige Schwächen klassischer Versicherungslösungen, wie ...

Investment and land use decisions pre-determine the distribution of other farm resources and thus constitute core farm activities. Investments at the farm level often include sunk costs, risks, returns-to-scale, investment ...

This thesis provides a general estimation framework for econometric specification of constrained optimization models, with special attention to problems arising when (i) inequality constraints are present in the constrained ...

Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector are not yet fully included in the current international obligations on combating the effects of climate change. This is due to the fact that policy efforts have been ...

Health is one of the basic capabilities that generate economic freedom. Better health status is described as an indicator of economic success and failure of the nations. The availability of health care services and the ...

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 ...