Completed dissertations

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  • 2024: Rural Development Policies in Southeast Asia: Impacts on Household Livelihoods, Welfare and Rural Transformation
  • 2019: Upgrading Horticultural Value Chains for Enhanced Welfare and Food Security – Case Studies from Thailand and Kenya. Hannover
  • 2019: A mathematical programming approach to model the impacts of sectoral interventions on sustainable development in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Hannover
  • 2019: Household Bargaining, Shocks and Vulnerability in the Mekong Region. Hannover
  • 2019: Climate Change and Household Welfare in Rural Tanzania. Hannover
  • 2018: Impact of Different Livelihood Strategies on Welfare of Smallholder Farmers: Case Studies from India, Kenya and Tanzania. Hannover
  • 2018: Livelihood Strategies among Rural Households in South-East Asia. Hannover
  • 2018: Economic Development and Natural Resource Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hannover
  • 2017: Economic Transformation of Rural Livelihoods in South-East Asia. Hannover
  • 2016: Food Security Outcomes of Smallholders' Integration in Traditional Agricultural Value Chains in Tanzania and Kenya. Hannover
  • 2016: Dynamics of Land Use Patterns in Biodiversity Rich Farming Systems of India. Hannover
  • 2016: Large-scale Foreign Investments in African Agriculture – Evaluating household welfare effects of outgrower schemes, agroindustry employment and spillovers in Malawi and Tanzania. Hannover
  • 2015: Foreign Aid, Economic Growth, And Poverty Reduction in Tanzania. Hannover
  • 2014: Migration and Rural Development in Vietnam. Hannover
  • 2014: An International Market for Protected Area Certificates and its Potential to Attract Private Sector Investment. Hannover
  • 2014: Expanding the Markets for Environmental Protection. Recent Initiatives on Certification, Voluntary Carbon Offsets, Protected Area Certificates, and Emission Trading. Hannover
  • 2013: Cooperation in Environmental Protection - The Economics of Green Trade, Market-Based Instruments and Community Involvement. Hannover
  • 2013: The Economics of Bioenergy - Livelihoods, Sustainability and Value Chains. Hannover
  • 2012: Geographical Indication Protection and Its Role for Rural Livelihoods in Thailand. Hannover
  • 2010: Coca Cultivation and Organic Coffee Certification: Heterogeneous Household-Level Determinants and Effects in an Indigenous Community in Peru. Hannover
  • 2009: Economic Analysis of Certification in the Brazilian Fruit Chain. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen
  • 2008: Risk, Risk Management and Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Malawi. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen
  • 2008: Assessing Household Vulnerability and Coping Strategies to Floods: A Comparative Study of Flooded and Non-Flooded Areas in Bangladesh, 2005. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen
  • 2008: Value Chains for Rural and Regional Development: The Case of Cotton, Wheat, Fruit and Vegetable Value Chains in the Lower Reaches of the Amu Darya River, Usbekistan. ZEF, Bonn