PUBLICATIONS OF FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
VALUE CHAINS AND FOOD SECURITY

Publications from 37 supported projects in the thematic area of value chains and food security:

  • Dubbert, Carolilne, Impact of Contract Farming on sustainable Farm Practices and Farm Performance: Insights from Cashew Farmers in Ghana, 2021 Summary as View-PDF
  • Geda, Shimelis Araya and Rainer Kühl, Exploring Smallholder Farmers’ Preferences for Climate-Smart Seed Innovations: Empirical Evidence from Southern Ethiopia, 2021 Summary as View-PDF
  • Sarzana, Carolina, Social – ecological resilience of the shea butter value chain upstream end: the case of Beninese shea agroforestry parklands , 2021 Summary as View-PDF
  • Paganini, Nicole, Kustiwa Adinata, Nomonde Buthelezi, David Harris, Stefanie Lemke, Alberto Luis, Jennifer Koppelin, Abdulrazak Karriem, Fezile Ncube, Enzo Nervi Aguirre, Tandu Ramba, Inês Raimundo, Nedim Sulejmanovic, Haidee Swanby, Daniel Tevera and Silke Stöber, Growing and Eating Food during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Farmers’ Perspectives on Local Food System Resilience to Shocks in Southern Africa and Indonesia, 2020 Summary as View-PDF
  • Geda, Shimelis Araya, Seed Innovations Adoption Processess in Ethiopia: Farmers’ Preferences and Supply Chain Performance, 2020 Summary as View-PDF
  • Muder, Anika, Impacts of large-scale agricultural investments on local food securtiy - The case of Africa Agritech in Benin, 2020 Summary as View-PDF
  • Sellare, Jorge, Eva-Marie Meemken, Christophe Kouamé, Matin Qaim, Do Sustainability Standards Benefit Smallholder Farmers also when Accounting for Cooperative Effects? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire , 2020 Summary as View-PDF
  • Sellare, Jorge, Eva-Marie Meemken, Matin Qaim, Fairtrade, Agrochemical Input Use, and Effects on Human Health and the Environment, 2020 Summary as View-PDF
  • Muhammad Bilal, Food security effects of multinational brands crop protection products: Evidence from cotton-wheat zone Punjab, Pakistan, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
  • Wit Yee Tun, Impacts of Shocks and Coping Strategies on Food Security: A Case Study from the Coffee Growing Area of Araku Valley, India, 2019 Summary as View-PDF
  • Fulwider, Will, The socio-economic role of underutilized species of the walnut-fruit forests of southern Kyrgyzstan in the livelihoods of local households, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
  • Meemken, Eva-Marie; Jorge Sellare and Matin Qaim, Sustainability Standards, Labor Market Implications, and Workers’ Wellbeing in the Small Farm Sector, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
  • Ngoc Huong, Le, Contract Farming in Vietnam: Empirical research on marketing determinants, farm performance and technical efficiency of the export-oriented rice sector in the Mekong River Delta, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
  • Marwan Benali, Export vegetable supply chains, household labour allocation and poverty effects among small producers – Evidence from Northern Tanzania , 2017 Summary as View- PDF
  • Marwan Benali, Bernhard Brümmer, Victor Afari-Sefa, Smallholder participation in vegetable exports and age-disaggregated labor allocation in Northern Tanzania, 2018 Summary as View-PDF
  • Dürrbeck, Lukas: Helfen in einer vernetzten Welt. Die Zukunft der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Aid in a networked world. The future of development cooperation), 2017 Summary only in German as View-PDF
  • Groß, Martin: Inclusive value chain analysis of diversification options for a social business in Ghana, 2017 Summary as View-PDF
  • Thai Thuy Pham : Specialty Rice Adoption, Collective Action and Marketing Channel Choice: Insights from Vietnam , 2017 Summary as View-PDF
  • Welker, Edith: Medicinal plants from the roof of the world : Understanding the interface between vernacular values and economic devlopment in the Pamir mountains of Tajiksitan, 2017 Summary as View-PDF
  • Peters, Maren: Bundling of Business Development Services as a Means to Overcome Institutional Voids, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
  • Teichmann, Isabel: Three Topics in Agriculture: Private Quality Standards, Marketing Channels, and Biochar, 2016 Summary as View-PDF
  • Müller, Anna Katharina: Food safety standards in developing countries: Exploring the role of financial literacy , 2015 Summary as View-PDF
  • Schmid, Maximilian: Small-scale farmers, private enterprises and innovations in food value chains: Applying the actor-network-theory in rural Tanzania, 2015 Summary as View- PDF
  • Ullrich, Simon: Potentiale zur Erhöhung der Nahrungssicherheit durch internationalen Handel mit Grundnahrungsmitteln innerhalb der Ostafrikanischen Gemeinschaft (Potentials for increasing food security through international trade with staple food within the East African Community), 2015 Summary only in German as View- PDF
  • Vetter, Thomas C.: Adapt or Die? The Modernisation of Agri-Food Markets in Indonesia and its Implications for Smallholder Horticulture Production. Insights from West Java and South Sulawesi, 2014 Summary as View-PDF
  • Weisensee, Adrian: Betriebswirtschaftliche Strategien zur Steigerung der Preisstabilität von Grundnahrungsmitteln in Ostafrika (Economic strategies to increase the price stability of staple food in East Africa), 2014 Summary only in German as View- PDF
  • Gersch, Inka: Die Potenziale inklusiver Businessmodelle im exportorientierten Agrarsektor - Analyse einer Kooperation zwischen Agrarunternehmen und kleinbäuerlichen Betrieben in Peru (The potential of inclusive business models in the export-oriented agricultural sector - Analysis of a cooperation between agricultural enterprises and small-scale farms in Peru), 2013 Summary only in German as View- PDF
  • Michler, Holger: Climate and soil effects on performance attributes of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) in Ecuador, 2013 Summary as View-PDF
  • Kersting, Sarah: Food Safety and Quality Standards in the Thai Horticultural Sector: Implications for Small-Scale Farmers, 2012 Summary as View-PDF
  • Güttler, Susanna: Adding value to Andean blueberries (Vaccinium floribundum Kunth) by processing healthy products as a contribution to food security in Ecuador. Development of concentrated clarified juice and powder juice with high contents of anthocyanins, 2011 Summary as View-PDF
  • Hallensleben, Martin: Assessment of Jatropha curcas Systems and their Potential for rural Development in Burkina Faso, West Africa, 2011 Summary as View-PDF
  • Elfadl, Elfadl Yousif Elmogtaba: Suitability of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) for Cultivation as an Oil Crop under the Conditions of Organic and Low- Input Farming Systems in Central Europe, 2010 Summary as View-PDF
  • Hilscher, Manuel, Dhusenti Manoharan und Athena Birkenberg: Local Knowledge and the Ecology of Medicinal Plants in Northern Thailand, 2009 Summary as View-PDF
  • Pandey, S., N.T. Khiem, H. Waibel and T.C. Thien: Upland Rice, Household Food Security, and Commercialization of Upland Agriculture in Vietnam, 2006 Summary as View- PDF
  • Tran Huu Cuong: Market Access and Agricultural Productivity in Vietnam, 2005 Summary as View-PDF
  • Graefe, Sophie: Effects of post-harvest treatments on the carbohydrate composition of yacon roots in the Peruvian Andes, 2004 Summary as View-PDF
  • Tscherning, Karen: Development of Methods for the Combined Evaluation of Tropical Multipurpose Shrub and Tree Legumes for Feed Value and Soil Enhancement, 2004 Summary as View-PDF
  • Weinberger, Katinka and Christian A. Genova II: Vegetable Production in Bangladesh - Commercialization and Rural Livelihoods, 2004 Summary as View-PDF
  • Graefe, Sophie: Post-harvest compositional changes of Yacon roots (Smallanthus sonchifolius Poepp. & Endl.) as affected by storage conditions and cultivar, 2002 Summary as View-PDF
  • Hertäg, Otto: Verbesserung der Effizienz der Vermarktung landwirtschaftlicher Produkte in Entwicklungsländern durch organisierte Marktveranstaltungen (Improvement of the efficiency of marketing agricultural products in developing countries through organized market events), 1989 Summary only in German as View-PDF
  • Mattheß-Guerrero, Annemarie: Einkommenssteigerung und -sicherung in kleinbäuerlichen Haushaltsbetriebssystemen im Andenhochland Kolumbiens (Improvement and stabilizatíon of the income of small-scale household-farm-systems in the Andean highlands of Colombia), 1988 Summary as View-PDF
  • Seré, Chrysille: Teichwirtschaft als Betriebszweig in der kleinbäuerlichen Landwirtschaft Kolumbiens (Pond farming as a business activity in the small-scale agriculture of Colombia), 1988 Summary only in German as View-PDF