Supported Dissertations in Latin America Hermann Eiselen Ph.D. Program
A total of 12 dissertations were supported in Latin America.
For field research in Argentina a total of 1 dissertation was supported:
Kurtz, Ditmar Bernado, Management of excess standing biomass in Argentinean
grasslands to increase grass and livestock productivity., 2016 Summary as View-PDF
For field research in Brasil a total of 2 dissertations were supported:
Bustillos Ardaya, Alicia, Applying Disaster Risk Governance in Dynamic Environments.
Case study Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
Gil, Juliana Dias Bernardes, Land Use Change, Agricultural Intensification and Low-
Carbon Agricultural Practices in Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
For field research in Columbia a total of 4 dissertations were supported:
Canon, Cesar, The hidden risk of conventional floodplain mapping. Diagnosis in Cali, Colombia, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
Burbano-Figueroa, Oscar, Yield, productivity and technical gaps that limit the cotton agricultural production system in the Colombian Caribbean, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
Corredor, Bibiana Betancur , Agroforestry as a post-mining land-use approach for waste
deposits in alluvial gold mining areas of Colombia , 2018 Summary as View-PDF
Grüzmacher, Monica, Understanding ecological change through palm use and
management, 2014
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For field research in Ecuador a total of 1 dissertation was supported:
Alvear, José Estuardo Jara , GIS-based sustainability assessment of decentralized rural
electrification in the Amazon region - Case study Ecuador , 2017 Summary as View-PDF
For field research in Mexico a total of 2 dissertations were supported:
Barajas, Elena Mendoza, Dedicated Innovation Systems for Local Sustainability Transformations in the Global South, 2022 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
For field research in Paraguay a total of 1 dissertation was supported:
Glauser, Marcos, Angaité’s Responses to Deforestation - Political ecology of the
livelihood and land use strategies of an indigenous community from the Paraguayan Chaco,
2019 Summary as View-PDF
For field research in Peru a total of 1 dissertation was supported:
Quispe Zúñiga, Melissa Roxana , Mining and small-scale farming in the Andes: Socioenvironmental
roots of land-use conflict, 2020 Summary as View-PDF
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PH.D.-PROGRAMS
Here are the two Ph. D.-programs in the area of food security and rural poverty alleviation: