Securing sufficient and diverse, nutritious food for all is challenging, especially in developing countries, where the economy is often largely dependent on agriculture. Governments are introducing various interventions ...

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are undergoing a nutrition transition, where diets are shifting from traditional staples to energy-dense processed foods, often contributing to poor nutrition outcomes, including ...

How do rural households in Africa diversify their income sources, and what are the implications of off-farm employment for welfare? This dissertation attempts to answer these questions by presenting four essays focusing ...

Forest trees in Germany and around the world are showing increasing drought damage symptoms and higher mortality rates due to climate change. Trees suffer direct damage from drought periods and heat waves, and forest ...

Mobile robots have become part of our everyday lives nowadays to automate tasks that are monotonous, repetitive, or dangerous to humans, such as autonomous driving. The automation of the driving task is complex to achieve ...

Edible mushrooms, such as oyster mushrooms (<em>Pleurotus ostreatus, P.o.</em>), possess a high nutritional value and contain various bioactive compounds, including β-glucans, ergosterol, and lovastatin. These components ...

<strong>Background and Motivation:</strong> Changes in water and carbon balances both impact and are impacted by the processes of soil microbial communities and plants, creating complex feedback loops. Climate change is ...

In Central America, particularly in Honduras, coffee production is vital to rural economies. However, extreme weather events such as droughts negatively impact coffee and food production, affecting food security of rural ...

This thesis investigates biomarker-based the long-term physiological implications of higher phosphorus intake during childhood and adolescence, with a focus on how a habitually phosphorus-rich nutrition during growth shapes ...

The microbes living in and in close proximity to plant roots are subject to host-driven selection and can confer substantial benefits to the plant such as growth promotion and stress tolerance. Studying this root-associated ...