Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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Mind your language: Political discourse affects deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
(2023-03)Land users make decisions in an increasingly dynamic environment. Changes in expectations are driven by market and non-market factors, but research on market related drivers of land use change so far dominates in the ... -
UN Food Systems Summit 2021 – What Role Science and Innovation in the Summit and in Countries’ Plans and Why?
(2023-01)The UN Food Systems Summit 2021 was different from all six previous food summits held in the past eight decades. New features of this Summit included the fact that it was anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals, ... -
A pure theory of population distribution when preferences are ordinal
(2023-01)We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this ... -
The evolving role of farm and off-farm jobs in rural Africa
(2024-06)Livelihood sources in rural Africa are diverse and dynamic. Using recent primary data from four African countries — Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia — we consider regions with different conditions related to climate, ... -
Cost of Ending Hunger – Consequences of Complacency, and Financial Needs for SDG2 Achievement
(2024-05)This study follows from an earlier assessment carried out by ZEF and FAO in 2020, which identified policy actions and investments needed to achieve SDG2 by 2030. The 2020 study used a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) ... -
Private service provision contributes to widespread innovation adoption among smallholder farmers: Laser land levelling technology in northwestern India
(2024-05)This study investigates key institutional factors promoting the adoption of laser land levelling (LLL), a technology that has gained wide popularity among farmers in northwestern India despite being indivisible. The main ... -
Rank, stress, and risk: A conjecture
(2024-05)A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci ... -
Temporary migration decisions and effects on household income and diets in rural Bangladesh
(2024-05)Temporary migration is a widely observed phenomenon among poor rural households, mostly related to agricultural seasonality. However, household preferences for temporary migration in comparison to longer-term migration, ... -
The merger of populations as a revision of comparison space: Repercussions for social stress and income inequality
(2024-04)The merger of populations expands the comparison space of incomes. As a result, measures of the income-based social stress and of the income inequality of the constituent populations need to be replaced by new measures. ... -
How kinship and marriage customs influence nutritional outcomes among males and females
(2024-04)Malnutrition in its various forms is a serious problem in many countries, contributing to human suffering, large healthcare costs, and hampered economic and human development. While various policies to reduce malnutrition ... -
The modification of social space as a tool for lowering social stress
(2024-03)The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual’s location in social space, and is the outcome of unfavorable ... -
An optimal allocation of asylum seekers
(2024-02)We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, ... -
We are survivors of patriarchy and racism. Decolonizing bodies and de-privatizing pain, an intersectional approach of psychosocial-political healing of indigenous women in Guatemala
(2024-08-23)In hegemonic Western psychology, psychological suffering is mainly constructed as an individual disorder rather than as context-dependent psycho-social phenomena. This article argues that it is key to analyze and take ... -
Factors affecting consumption of edible insects as food: entomophagy in Myanmar
(2023-05-26)With the world’s population rapidly increasing, food security and malnutrition have emerged as critical issues. Edible insects offer an alternative protein source that requires less land and water than conventional livestock ... -
Europäische Integration aus historischer Erfahrung: Ein Zeitzeugengespräch mit Michael Gehler
(2024)Dieses Gespräch erfolgt im Rahmen der Zeitzeugengespräche „Europäische Integration aus historischer Erfahrung“, die alle ehemaligen Kommissare aus Deutschland in Interviews zu erfassen versucht. Bei bereits verstorbenen ... -
Europäische Integration aus historischer Erfahrung: Ein Zeitzeugengespräch mit Michael Gehler
(2024)Dieses Gespräch erfolgt im Rahmen der Zeitzeugengespräche „Europäische Integration aus historischer Erfahrung“, die alle ehemaligen Kommissare aus Deutschland in Interviewform zu erfassen versucht. Bei bereits verstorbenen ... -
Gender gaps in wages and nonmonetary benefits: Evidence from Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector
(2024-07)Using two rounds of panel firm- and worker-level data, this paper studies the gender gap in monetary and non-monetary compensation as well as work-related wellbeing among full-time workers in the agro-processing and leather ... -
Exploring the relationship between job quality and firm productivity in the manufacturing sector: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2024-07)By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The ... -
Assessing employment and labour market effects of rural infrastructure investments in the Sahel region: Cases of Niger and Côte d'Ivoire
(2024-06)Investments in infrastructure are necessary to achieve the objective of Sustainable Development Goal-2 (SDG2), which is to “end hunger, ensure food security and promote sustainable agriculture” and to also create jobs in ... -
Moving from Productivity to Sustainability in Agricultural Education?: Perspectives from Students and Teachers in four African Countries
(2024-05)It is unclear to what extent environmental and social sustainability goals have been included into agricultural education systems, which have traditionally been focused on increasing agricultural productivity. In sub-Saharan ...
