The Faculty of Agriculture: Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät: Recent submissions
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Characterizing and assessing drought risks for agricultural systems: Integrating socioecological approaches at global and national levels
Meza Rodriguez, Maria Isabel (2024-05-15)Droughts are complex, multifaceted hazards that affect many regions of the world. They cascade through socioecological systems at different scales and cause severe environmental and social impacts. Agriculture bears much ... -
Robot Mapping with 3D LiDARs
Vizzo, Ignacio Martin (2024-05-15)Robots can assist humans in a multitude of ways. For example, robots can handle tedious tasks that humans prefer not to do, such as vacuum cleaning daily to keep a house clean. They can tackle challenging problems that, ... -
Household food safety, dietary diversity and malnutrition in an urban context: Evidence from urban Ghana
Dzudzor, Makafui Isaac (2024-05-15)Food safety, dietary diversity and malnutrition are significant issues confronting urban households. A nutrition and epidemiological transition is occurring in developing countries, leading to a double burden of malnutrition ... -
Elucidating the genetic basis and environmental regulation of root-microbe associations in maize
Wang, Danning (2024-05-07)Microorganisms play a critical role in promoting plant growth and performance, especially under environmental stresses. Utilization of microbiomes has been proposed as a strategy to improve food production and support ... -
Agro-climate service delivery and scaling at the last mile: A case study in Dien Bien District, Vietnam
Luu, Thi Thu Giang (2024-05-07)Smallholder farmers, particularly in the Global South, are among the groups experiencing the most direct impacts of weather, climate variability and climate change. These direct impacts might disrupt or reverse development ... -
Availability and Sustainable Harvesting of Wild Edible Plants in Turkana County, Kenya
Oluoch, Wyclife Agumba (2024-04-22)Wild Edible Plants (WEPs) are important globally in alleviating poverty and malnutrition especially micronutrient deficiency within arid and semi-arid lands with limited potential for cultivate crops. However, they are ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Hygroscopic Leaf Surface Material on Plant Water Relations: Stomatal Responses and Nocturnal Transpiration
Chi, Chia-Ju Ellen (2024-04-17)The increase in atmospheric aerosols from human activities like industry and agriculture has raised concerns about their impact on plant physiology, particularly due to their hygroscopic nature. While past research focused ... -
Entwicklungskinetiken und Generationszeitverkürzung verschiedener Akzessionen von Silphium perfoliatum L. und Silphium integrifolium Michx.
Greve, Martin (2024-04-10)Die Inkulturnahme wie auch die Züchtung neuer Nutzpflanzen stellt einen wichtigen Aspekt des Fortschritts im Pflanzenbau dar. So wird im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeitsförderung der Landwirtschaft nach immer neuen potenziellen ... -
Enhancing Nitrogen Fertilisation Efficiency by Developing Novel Nitrification Inhibitors for a Greener Agriculture
Yildirim, Sibel Cansu (2024-03-25)Nitrogen fertilization in agriculture has serious environmental consequences, including production of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O), pollution of groundwater with nitrate (NO<sub>3</sub><sup>-</sup>), ... -
Ultrasound-assisted enzymatic maceration and valorization of by-products: A contribution to sustainable production of berry juices
Nemetz, Nicole Jasmin (2024-03-06)Red berry juice, rich in secondary plant metabolites such as anthocyanins, represents a good alternative to the consumption of red berries. According to the German Association of Nutrition, a consumption of five portions ... -
Analytical and nutritional evaluation of rye grain in diets for growing pigs
Schmitz, Klara Theresa (2024-02-22)Climate change and increasing consumer awareness of environmental and animal welfare issues are constantly challenging the animal nutrition sector to adapt and find improved solutions that are resource efficient, meet the ... -
Detection and Attribution of Spatiotemporal Trends of Climatic Disaster Mortality in Nepal
Chapagain, Dipesh (2024-02-16)The socioeconomic impacts of climatic disasters are increasing globally. Some studies have argued that this increasing trend results from the growing population and assets exposed to hazardous events. Other studies have ... -
Acceptance of innovations for sustainable food production: A consumer and farmer perspective on the use of soil-microbes
Ploll, Ursula (2024-02-05)In alignment with a transition to sustainable agriculture, alternatives for conventional harmful agricultural inputs are needed. Researchers in the field of plant production have emphasised that beneficial soil-microbes ... -
Thermosphere and radiation effects in forward and inverse non-gravitational force modelling
Vielberg, Kristin (2024-02-01)Precise non-gravitational satellite force models are crucial for various space-based applications, thus contributing to a better understanding of the Earth system. <br /> Satellite orbits are perturbed by gravitational ... -
Characterization of insecticide resistance in Hemipteran crop pests with special reference to aphids and whiteflies
Müller, Viola (2024-01-26)Agriculture faces enormous challenges: In addition to the increasing demand for agricultural products with less available agricultural landscapes, there is a need to protect the environment and biodiversity and to minimize ... -
Temperature-dependent development of porcine skeletal muscle cells in an in-vitro model
Metzger, Katharina (2024-01-25)Satellite cells are quiescent myogenic stem cells and it is possible to derive an in-vitro model of these cells. This in-vitro model can be used to represent myogenesis using proliferating myoblasts and differentiating ... -
Root growth of sole and mixed cover crops in organic farming
Kemper, Roman (2024-01-23)Cover crops are an important tool in arable farming systems. They provide many different agroecosystem services. For many of these functions, such as nutrient uptake, erosion prevention and soil structure formation, the ... -
Market expectations, public information and uncertainty resolution in agricultural commodity and equity markets
Cao, Nguyen Que An (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 ... -
Mapping and Interpolation of Tropospheric Ozone Data with Machine Learning Methods
Betancourt, Clara (2023-12-14)Tropospheric ozone is a toxic trace gas in the atmosphere. It threatens human health, damages crops and vegetation, and it is a short-lived climate forcer. Ozone is a secondary air pollutant that undergoes multiple physical ... -
The Importance of International Quality Standards in Negotiating Trade Agreements between the European Union and Third Countries as regards Global Trade in Agricultural Products and Food
Pietrzyck, Katja (2023-12-14)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 ...