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Investment and land-use decision under consideration of uncertainty
(2018-09-17)
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 ...
Decentralized energy in India and its synergies with Water-Energy-Food security (WEF) nexus
(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 ...
Conceptualising and estimating rationalised agricultural optimisation models
(2018-07-19)
Computational modelling for quantitative agricultural policy assessment in the EU employs more farm level oriented approaches in recent years. This follows policy instruments that increasingly target the farm level and ...
Consumer acceptance of biotechnology: the influence of product end-use, policy context, and information framing
(2018-06-07)
Consumer acceptance of novel technologies is a prerequisite for market adoption of the derived products. The transition towards a more sustainable bioeconomy in Europe requires product and process innovation that promotes ...
Investment in health within the agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene nexus for rural households in Bangladesh
(2018-02-16)
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related burden of disease is one of the most important aspects of human capital formation. As WASH is a system issue, it needs to be investigated with many other complementary factors ...
Ethiopian Youth in Agriculture: Relative Deprivation, Well-being and Occupational Choices
(2018-03-05)
Africa has the highest share of young people in the world relative to the total population, with the median age of the population under 25 years old, which is not expected to change in the coming decades. This high proportion ......
Afrika hat weltweit den höchsten Anteil junger Leute an der Gesamtbevölkerung; der Altersme dian der Gesamtbevölkerung liegt bei unter 25 Jahren . An diesem Trend dürfte sich laut aktuellen Prognosen auch in den nächsten ......
Afrika hat weltweit den höchsten Anteil junger Leute an der Gesamtbevölkerung; der Altersme dian der Gesamtbevölkerung liegt bei unter 25 Jahren . An diesem Trend dürfte sich laut aktuellen Prognosen auch in den nächsten ......
The impact of large-scale land-acquisition in East Africa on poverty reduction and the rural economy: Studies in Ethiopia and Uganda
(2017-02-28)
There is an increasing interest of acquiring farmland abroad, especially following the food price crisis in 2007/08. East Africa is a hotspot of activities, and given the high prevalence of poor people in the area, impacts ...
The Relationship between the Resource Curse and Genuine Savings as an Indicator for Weak Sustainability: Theoretical Background and Empirical Evidence
(2017-07-11)
This dissertation deals with the relationship between the Resource Curse (RC) – the empirically proven paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often show slower economic growth – and a measure for the ...
The Impact of Public Policies on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
(2017-07-03)
Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3m sq. kilometers of tree cover, equivalent to 6.4 times the size of Germany, were lost globally due to land cover change. Forest loss often comes with significant social and environmental costs. ...
Economic and policy mechanisms affecting land use decisions in the Brazilian agricultural frontier
(2021-06-16)
The sustainable use of land resources is one of the most complex challenges facing the 21st century. As Brazil is one of the countries most endowed with land resources, it can facilitate global food and energy demands while ...