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 Video 1 (mp4, 89 MB), german/english
Research projects of the institute in 2012
 Video 2 (mp4, 38 MB), german/english
DFG-Project FOR 756: Impact of shocks on the vulnerability to poverty: consequences for development of emerging Southeast Asian economies
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| Title |
Improving the management of trypanosomiasis in smallholder livestock production systems in tsetse-infested sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Objectives |
Overall objectives: To improve the sustainable livelihoods of resource-poor livestock producers in smallholder production systems through improved control of trypanosomiasis. |
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Specific objectives: |
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1. To improve capacity and capability of African laboratories and veterinary services to detect trypanocide resistance and to conduct quality control of trypanocidal drugs; |
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2. To improve the effectiveness of available trypanocides in livestock; |
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3. To promote and monitor the use of the technical and structural innovations developed in partnership at a regional and continental scale. |
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| Methodology |
In order to evaluate the project’s impact |
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1. Household level data collection to establish a panel data set |
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2. Impact analysis using DD-models |
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| Contact |
Sabine Liebenehm / N.N. |
| Partners |
Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM) |
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Free University of Berlin (FUB) |
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Vétérinaires Sans Frontières – Belgium (VSF) |
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Centre International de Recherche-Developpement sur l’Elevage en Zone Subhumide (CIRDES) |
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National Animal Health Diagnostic and Investigation Centre (NAHDIC) |
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University of Pretoria (UP) |
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Direction de l’Elevage du Togo (VetTogo) |
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Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (EMU) |
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| Period |
2012-2017 |
| Funding/Sponsor |
EU Commission |
| Budget |
330 000 € |
| Keywords |
Impact assessment, Livestock disease, Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Website |
www.trypanocide.eu/ |
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| Title |
Cost- benefit analysis of sustainability standards in small holder oil palm farming in Sumatra, Indonesia |
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| Objectives |
This research aims to assess the acceptance and economic consequences of standards for sustainable oil palm farming among small holders in the province of Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. |
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This study will draw from an existing panel data set of some 291 small holder oil palm farmers from 2010 and 2012 in two districts of Jambi. |
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Three hypotheses will be tested: |
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(1) smallholder oil palm farmers are aware of the environmental standards promoted by the Government in oil palm plantations; |
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(2) the benefits of sustainable oil palm management practices are uncertain; |
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(3) woman can play a major role in implementing sustainable oil palm management practices. |
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Fieldwork to test the first hypotheses has already been conducted during July - August 2012. |
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For 2013, additional data collection is proposed with the objective to test the second and the third hypotheses. Individual interviews, focus group discussions with village groups and a stakeholder workshop will be conducted to establish the empirical base for developing and applying cost benefit analysis. |
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| Methodology |
Household level data collection to establish a panel data set |
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| Contact |
Ernah |
| Period |
2012-2015 |
| Funding/Sponsor |
Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics |
| Budget |
14 000 € |
| Keywords |
Oil palm, Environment, Smallholder, Indonesia |
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| Title |
Sustainable rubber cultivation in the Mekong region (SURUMER): How to balance trade-offs between ecosystem functions, services, and socio-economic constraints in southern Yunnan (China) |
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| Contact |
Jan Meier / N.N. |
| Period |
2011-2016 |
| Funding/Sponsor |
BMBF / DLR |
| Budget |
310 000 € |
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| Title |
Economics of African Animal Trypanosomiasis (AAT) management strategies under risk and time preferencies |
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| Objectives |
The overall goal of this research proposal is to analyze livestock disease control options that can ensure the sustainability of livestock dependent household systems in West Africa. |
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The research project has two specific objectives, i.e.: |
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(i) Analyse the data on risk and time preferences as well as subjective probabilities that have been elicited by economic field experiments from January to February 2011 |
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(ii) Assess the long-term productivity of AAT disease control strategies including trypanocides in a dynamic modeling framework |
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| Methodology |
Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of preferences |
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Stochastic dynamic programming |
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| Contact |
Sabine Liebenehm |
| Period |
2008-2013 |
| Funding/Sponsor |
DFG |
| Budget |
110 000 € |
| Keywords |
Risk and time preferences, Livestock disease, West Africa |
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Assessing the Potential of Fair Organic Certified Products for Sustainable Livelihoods in Developing Countries - The case of Black Pepper in India |
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1. To what extent conversion and adoption to organic production and fair trade marketing arrangements can be a viable option for improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in India? |
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2. What is the impact of organic agriculture under fair trade promotion structures on the income and consumption of the household? |
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| Methodology |
1. Household level data collection to establish a panel data set |
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2. Quantitative analysis using panel data models |
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| Contact |
Priyanka Parvathi |
| Period |
2010-2013 |
| Funding/Sponsor |
Leibniz Universität Hannover |
| Keywords |
Organic farming, Fair trade, Sustainability, Vulnerability, India |
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| Title |
Impact of shocks on the vulnerability to poverty: consequences for development of emerging Southeast Asian economies |
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Sub-project TP 03 |
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The capacity of agriculture to adjust to economic crisis and environmental shocks in Thailand |
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| Objectives |
1. Investigating the changing role of agriculture before and after economic crisis in Thailand |
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2. Analyzing the capacity of agriculture to adjust to environmental shocks in Vietnam |
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3. Comparing and assessing the structural adjustment processes in agriculture in Thailand and Vietnam in view of economic crisis and environmental change |
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4. Contribute to advancing the vulnerability concepts by incorporating agricultural household decision models |
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5. Advance the concept of risk measurement |
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| Methodology |
1. Household level data collection to establish a panel data set |
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2. Quantitative analysis using panel data models |
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| Contact |
Mulubrhan R. Amare, Bezawit B. Chichaibelu, Lena Hohfeld, Thi Hoa Vu |
| Partner |
In collaboration with the 'Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade' (Prof. U. Grote) |
| Period |
2010-2013 |
| Funding/Sponsor |
DFG |
| Budget |
250 000 € |
| Keywords |
Vulnerability, Shocks, Thailand, Coping strategies, Rural development |
| Website |
www.vulnerability-asia.uni-hannover.de |
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| Title |
The Impact of Contract Farming in the Oil Palm Industry on Poverty Reduction: An Analysis of Supply Chain Partnership in Sumatra, Indonesia |
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| Contact |
Eko R. Cahyadi |
| Period |
2009- |
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| Keywords |
Contract farming, Oil palm, Treatment effect model, Vulnerability, Poverty |
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| Title |
The effect of social networks on vulnerability to poverty: A village level case study in Thailand. |
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| Contact |
Theda Gödecke |
| Period |
2008- |
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| Keywords |
Vulnerability to poverty, Thailand, Social networks, Village level case study |
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| Title |
Impact of shocks on vulnerability to poverty in Thailand and Vietnam: consequences for the development of emerging Southeast Asian economies |
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| Contact |
Duc Phung Tung |
| Period |
2006- |
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| Keywords |
Vulnerability to poverty, Thailand, Vietnam, Southeast Asian economies |
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