Current publications from the last two years are listed here from funded research projects and funded or awarded doctoral and master theses:

2023

• Akpan, Akaniyene Ignatius and Dimitrios Zikos, Rural Agriculture and Poverty Trap: Can Climate-Smart Innovations Provide Breakeven Solutions to Smallholder Farmers?, 2023 Summary as View-PDF
• Elzaki, Salma Faroug Hussain, Improvement of mastitis resistance and milk production in Sudanese dairy cattle breeds using genetic association infromation, 2023 Summary as View-PDF
• Marphatia, Akanksha A., Laura K. Busert-Sebela, Lu Gram, Mario Cortina-Borja, Alice M. Reid, Dharma S. Manandhar, Jonathan C.K. Wells and Naomi M. Saville, Maternal mental health and economic autonomy in lowland rural Nepal. Do parents-in-law provide constraint or support?, 2023 Summary as View-PDF
• Mohammad Alqadi, Ala Al Dwairi, Pablo Merchán-Rivera and Gabriele Chiogna, Presentation of DeMa (Decision Support Software and Database for Wellfield Management) and Its Application for the Wadi Al Arab Wellfield, 2023 Summary as View-PDF
• Moore, Jennifer, Wild harvest practices of the Moroccan Äit Isful women: Perceived environmental changes and their social and food security implications, 2023 Summary as View-PDF
• Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr., Context matters: Oil palm production and women's dietary diversity in the tropical forest of Cameroon, 2023 Summary as View-PDF

2022

• Adodoadji, Isaac Doetse, Transitioning from Organic to Biodynamic Farming: The Case of the Zanzibar Organic Spice Growers in Tanzania, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Amondo, Emily Injete , Health and Welfare Implications of Climate Variability Evidence from Rural Uganda, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Annan, Adjoa Tsetsewa, Quality Enhancement in Cocoa Production - a Study of the Cocoa Sector of Ghana , 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Bacud, Eva Salve Tino, Breeding with an intersectional lens: Understanding farmers’ varietal trait preferences for gender-responsive and socially inclusive breeding goals, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Barajas, Elena Mendoza, Dedicated Innovation Systems for Local Sustainability Transformations in the Global South, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Beck, Janna, Feasibility study of a solar powered hammer mill for Maize in rural Mbinga district, Tanzania, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Birtukan Atinkut Asmare , Female-headed farmer households pest management strategies, practices, and related impact on health in the Amhara region, Ethiopia , 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
• Canon, Cesar, The hidden risk of conventional floodplain mapping. Diagnosis in Cali, Colombia, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Ebile, Pride Anya, The role of home gardens in mitigating food insecurity and dietary quality: The case of the Mbororo community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Elzaki, Salma, Paula Korkuc, Danny Arends, Monika Reissmann and Gudrun A. Brockmann, Effects of DGAT1 on milk performance in Sudanese Butana × Holstein crossbred cattle, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Elzaki, Salma, Paula Korkuc, Danny Arends, Monika Reissmann, Siham A. Rahmatalla and Gudrun A. Brockmann, Validation of somatic cell score‑associated SNPs from Holstein cattle in Sudanese Butana and Butana × Holstein crossbred cattle, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Frank, Markus, Mariano M. Amoroso, Martina Propedo and Brigitte Kaufmann, Co-inquiry in agroecology research with farmers: transdisciplinary co-creation of contextualized and actionable knowledge, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Frank, Markus, Brigitte Kaufmann, Mercedes Ejarque, María Guadalupe Lamaison, María Virginia Nessi and Mariano Martin Amoroso, Changing Conditions for Local Food Actors to Operate Towards Agroecology During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Georgiadis, Pavlos, Ethnobotanical knowledge against the combined biodiversity, poverty and climate crisis: A case study from a Karen community in Northern Thailand, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Gicheha, Simon Kariuki, Camel Milk Marketing in Kenya: Institutional Arrangements and Performance, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Golembiewski, Silvia K. E., Baseline assessment and cost analysis of a supplementary feeding intervention on Adivasi children in West Bengal, India: How to diversify diets with locally available resources cost-effectively to reduce the burden of child and maternal undernutrition and anaemia?, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Grau, Joshua, Examining Livestock Development and Giving Recommendations to Develop the Livestock Sector in Zambia, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Hansen, Lea-Sophie, Raissa Sorgho, Isabel Mank, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Erick Agure, Till Bärnighausen, Ina Danquah, Home gardening in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review on practices and nutrition outcomes in rural Burkina Faso and Kenya, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• lmran Sajid, Options to improve irrigation efficiency and productivity under rotational delivery schedule, a bottom-up approach applied at canal Irrigation scheme in Pakistan, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Krumbe, Falk Milan Georg, The economic dependency of Ghana’s cocoa sector on pollination services, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Laffoon, Bethany Lynn, Examining Development Pathways and Tradeoffs of Pastoral Livestock Systems in Kenya, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Mekdim Dereje Regassa, Patterns of Urbanization and Economic Development. Evidence from household surveys in Ethiopia , 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Müller-Hauser, Anna A., Shafinaz Sobhan, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Jillian L. Waid, Amanda S. Wendt, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Mahbubur Rahman and Sabine Gabrysch , Key Food Hygiene Behaviors to Reduce Microbial Contamination of Complementary Foods in Rural Bangladesh, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Müller-Hauser, Anna A., Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Sabine Gabrysch, Effect of a behavior change intervention on household food hygiene practices and complementary food contamination in rural Bangladesh, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Pereira Goss, Luisa, Agroecological transitions: a case study of the Terra Vista Settlement, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Sarvani, Hamed, J., Precoppe, Marcelo, García-Triñanes, Pablo, Chapuis, Arnaud, Tran, Thierry, Bradley, Michael SA and Joachim Müller, Determining the heat of desorption for cassava products on data measured by an automated gravimetric moisture sorption system, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Schwarze, Louis Philipp, Governance of pesticides in Zambia, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Shafinaz Sobhan, Müller-Hauser, Anna A., Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Jillian L. Waid, Om Prasad Gautam, Giorgia Gon, Amanda S. Wendt and Sabine Gabrysch , Design, delivery, and determinants of uptake: findings from a food hygiene behavior change intervention in rural Bangladesh, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Sorgho, Raissa, Adaptation to Climate Change: Nutrition and Food Security in Burkina Faso, 2022 Summary as View-PDF
• Sorgho, Raissa, Mahir Bhatt, Ina Danquah, Rainer Sauerborn, Institutional barriers to climate change and health adaptation in Burkina Faso, 2022 Summary as View-PDF