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Patterns of Urbanization and Economic Development: Evidence from household surveys in Ethiopia
(2022-05-17)
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are urbanizing at an unprecedentedly fast rate. This trend has the potential to affect the welfare of households by altering the degree of urban proximity as well as the size of the ...
Agri-food policies and Sustainable Development Goals: Quantitative food system analyses
(2022-08-23)
The agricultural and food system is key to reaching several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), foremost those on food security (SDG2), reducing waste (SDG12), combatting climate change (SDG13), and reducing ...
Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements: Incentives and Consequences on Consumption and Social Preferences
(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 ...
Roads, Geography, and Connectivity: Economic Impacts of Road Infrastructure in Georgia and Armenia
(2021-12-16)
Adequate road infrastructure is considered one of the major factors for economic development. The improvement of connectivity has been crucial for the development agenda. This has resulted in rapid increase in infrastructure ...
Consumption Choices: The effects of food production, markets and preferences on diets in India
(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 ...
Analyses on the role of non-state actors for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
(2020-09-17)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by United Nations (UN) Member States in September 2015, aims to solve world sensitive sustainability issues through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as focus ......
The governance of plant breeding - a social-ecological systems perspective
(2023-04-13)
Climate change and social conflicts put modern agricultural systems under pressure, necessitating systemic transformations of these systems towards sustainability. At the core of these sustainability challenges to agriculture ...
Assessing emerging technologies for sustainability transitions: An analysis from a technology, company and ecosystem perspective
(2023-06-29)
Understanding the role of technological innovations has always been a central concern of strategic management research. Specifically, to address the current challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change ......
Die Rolle technologischer Innovationen zu verstehen, ist schon immer ein zentrales Anliegen der strategischen Managementforschung. Vor allem in Anbetracht der großen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, wie Klimawandel ......
Die Rolle technologischer Innovationen zu verstehen, ist schon immer ein zentrales Anliegen der strategischen Managementforschung. Vor allem in Anbetracht der großen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, wie Klimawandel ......
Conditional cash transfers, migration, and child welfare in rural El Salvador
(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, ...
Market expectations, public information and uncertainty resolution in agricultural commodity and equity markets
(2023-12-14)
The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) states that price movements result from changes in market expectations when new information becomes available. This thesis focuses on such revisions of expectations around the releases ...