Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliche Fakultät: Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Ingenieurwissenschaftliche Fakultät: Neuzugänge
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Robot Mapping and Navigation in Real-World Environments
(2018-11-27)Robots can perform various tasks, such as mapping hazardous sites, taking part in search-and-rescue scenarios, or delivering goods and people. Robots operating in the real world face many challenges on the way to the ... -
Prospects of Cooperation in the Eastern Nile Basin: The case of Experimental Game Application
(2018-11-23)Tensions over the use of Nile waters have recently increased and no comprehensive agreement till date acceptable to all Eastern Nile Basin riparian countries exists. After years of escalating tensions between upstream and ... -
High precision lysimeters improve our understanding of water cycle and solute transport dynamics
(2018-11-28)Water is the most precious natural resource on earth. Understanding the movement of water and dissolved substances between the different compartments soil, vegetation, and atmosphere is of crucial importance to resolve ... -
Investigating the Potential of UAV-Based Low-Cost Camera Imagery for Measuring Biophysical Variables in Maize
(2018-11-27)The potential for improved crop productivity is readily investigated in agronomic field experiments. Frequent measurements of biophysical crop variables are necessary to allow for confident statements on crop performance. ... -
Identification and characterisation of Heterodera schachtii susceptibility genes AtPANB1 and HIPP27 in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2018-11-08)Sedentary plant-parasitic cyst nematodes are obligate biotrophs that infect the roots of their host plant. Their parasitism is based on modification of infected root cells to form a hypermetabolic syncytium from which the ... -
Bioporengenese durch homo- und allorhize Kulturpflanzen: Einfluss auf das Wurzelwachstum der Nachfrüchte
(2018-11-08)Im Organischen Landbau ist ein tiefreichendes Wurzelsystem, das die Aufnahme von Wasser und Nährstoffen aus tiefen Bodenschichten ermöglicht, ein wichtiges Element zur Stabilisierung des Ertrags. Bioporen, durch Pflanzenwurzeln ... -
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 ... -
Water, sanitation and agriculture linkages: impact on health and nutrition outcomes in peri-urban Gujarat, India
(2018-11-28)In the rural and peri-urban settings, where agriculture is one of the main sources of livelihood, the multi-purpose character of irrigation and drainage infrastructure creates several interlinks between water, sanitation ... -
Towards a more efficient and sustainable fertilization through recycling phosphorus as struvite
(2018-11-08)Food and water security are dependent on the sustainable use of phosphorus (P). However, there is no single solution for achieving a phosphorus-secure future. P recovered and recycled from current waste streams (like manure) ... -
Einfluss der Bewirtschaftungsintensität und Landschaftsstruktur auf die Diversität der Saltatoria und Hymenoptera (Bombus) von Mittelgebirgsgrünland
(2018-11-27)Grünland ist ein prägendes Element der Agrarlandschaft und zentraler Baustein der multifunktionalen Landwirtschaft. Unter anderem leistet es einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erhaltung der biologischen Vielfalt. Die Quantität ... -
Effects of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes and utilisation of preventive health services: Evidence from rural south-western Uganda
(2018-10-23)With the renewed focus on health for all through universal health coverage, community-based health insurance has been proposed both as a building block for health systems financing and also providing financial protection ... -
Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) in Northern Ghana: Impacts on Welfare, Environmental Reliance, and Agricultural Land Expansion
(2018-10-22)Sustainable agriculture has become an important issue in the development-policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as a major avenue to simultaneously raise smallholder agricultural productivity and enhance climate change ... -
Performance assessment of a bamboo-drip irrigation system: a contribution to water productivity improvement West Africa
(2018-11-28)Despite its high efficiency and productivity potential in regions subject to scarce water supply, conventional drip irrigation is still expensive and therefore only being adopted slowly in West Africa where 80% of vegetable ... -
Long-term effects of childhood work on human capital formation, migration decisions, and earnings in rural Ethiopia
(2018-10-16)In Ethiopia, a quarter of children are child laborers, of which one in every three works full-time. Currently, more children than ever before also combine schooling with work. In addition, although net primary school ... -
Effects of warmer winters due to climate change on chilling and dormancy release of sweet cherry
(2018-10-16)The main objective was to contribute to dormancy research by one the one hand investigating the chilling and forcing requirements of sweet cherry trees in one of the major fruit growing regions in Germany and on the other ... -
Genome-wide-association studies (GWAS) on the interaction between the cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii and Arabidopsis thaliana
(2018-10-12)Plant-parasitic cyst nematodes are obligate sedentary parasites that infect the roots of a wide range of host plants. In research, the beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii infecting Arabidopsis thaliana is often used ... -
The Effect of Government Transfers on Poverty and Inequality: Three Different Perspectives about Decentralization and Social Policies in Bolivia
(2018-10-12)Poverty and inequality in Bolivia have reduced to a great extent in the last 20 years in Bolivia. There are mixed opinions regarding the role of the state in this overall positive result, and consistent evidence of state ... -
Allocation of Payments for Environmental Services through auctions & the role of social interaction
(2018-09-28)This thesis contributes to the study of the use of auctions in the allocation of contracts of payments for environmental services. The focus of the research is on the role of social interaction as a learning source for ... -
Farm-level impacts of policy instruments targeting plant protection products
(2018-09-25)Plant protection is necessary to achieve high yields with high quality. The application of pesticides, however, leads to negative external effects to the environment. Society calls for stricter agri-environmental instruments ... -
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 ...
