A total of 14 dissertations were supported in the thematic area of institutions and food security:

• Md. Fuad Hassan, Interlinkage between food prices and agricultural wages and implications for farm mechanization in Bangladesh, 2021 Summary as View-PDF
• Mandler, Andreas, Agricultural Expertise and Knowledge Practices among Individualized Farm Households in Tajikistan, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
• Nyang’au, Isaac Mbeche , Boundary Work and Agricultural Innovation Systems. Stakeholder Interaction and Learning using an example of Push-pull Technology in Ethiopia , 2019 Summary as View-PDF
• Schwachula, Anna, Sustainable development in science policy-making. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Policies for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
• Andeltová, Lucie, Action-based and outcome-based payments for environmental services. An experimental auction for tree planting contracts in Kenya, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
• Cho, Minjung, Institutional Assessment of Health Research Capacity in Uzbekistan, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
• Narjes, Manuel Ernesto, Theoretical analysis and preference modelling for the valuation of ecosystem services from native pollinators in selected Thai rural communities , 2018 Summary as View-PDF
• Rukundo, Emmanuel Nshakira, Effects of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes and utilisation of preventive health services. Evidence from rural south-western Uganda, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
• Kamanda, Josey Ondieki, Activating institutional innovations for hunger and poverty reduction: Potential of applied international agricultural research, 2015 Summary as View-PDF
• Viveros Añorve, José Luis, The Opportunity Cost of Financing Oportunidades. A General Equilibrium Assessment for Poverty Reduction in Mexico, 2015 Summary as View-PDF
• Ilukor, John, An analysis of institutional arrangement for providing animal health services: A theoretical framework and empirical evidence from Kenya and Uganda, 2014 Summary as View-PDF
• Kim, Elena, International Development and Research in Central Asia - Exploring the Knowledge-based Social Organization of Gender , 2014 Summary as View-PDF
• Wambui Muriithi, Beatrice, Commercialization of Smallholder Horticultural Farming in Kenya. Poverty, Gender, and Institutional Arrangements, 2014 Summary as View-PDF
• Akudugu, Jonas Ayaribilla , Organising and Implementing Local Economic Development Initiatives at the District level in Ghana , 2013 Summary as View-PDF