A total of 7 dissertations were supported in the thematic area of land use and food security:

• Quispe Zúñiga, Melissa Roxana , Mining and small-scale farming in the Andes: Socioenvironmental roots of land-use conflict, 2020 ZuSummary as View-PDF
• Mwingyine, Darius Tuonianuo, Emergent land commodification and intergenerational land relations in Northwestern Ghana, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
• Kirui, Oliver Kiptoo, Economics of Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management and Poverty in Eastern Africa. The Extent, Drivers, Costs and Impacts, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
• Kuusaana, Elias Danyi, Large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural investments in Ghana - implications for land markets and smallholder farmers, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
• Baumgartner, Philipp W. M., The impacts of large-scale land-acquisition in East Africa on poverty reduction and the rural economy: Studies in Ethiopia and Uganda, 2015 Summary as View-PDF
• Haoran Yang, Land Rental Market and Rural Economic Development: Evidence from Rural Chongqing, China, 2015 Summary as View-PDF
• Mohammed, Hasen Yusuf, The influence of land use and cover changes on the pastoral rangeland systems of southern Ethiopia - How much woody cover is enough?, 2013 Summary as View-PDF