Research projects

Videos about the research projects, created for the "Night of Science" 2012

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


Title	Improving the management of trypanosomiasis in smallholder livestock production systems in tsetse-infested sub-Saharan Africa

Objectives	Overall objectives: To improve the sustainable livelihoods of resource-poor livestock producers in smallholder production systems through improved control of trypanosomiasis.
	Specific objectives:
	1. To improve capacity and capability of African laboratories and veterinary services to detect trypanocide resistance and to conduct quality control of trypanocidal drugs;
	2. To improve the effectiveness of available trypanocides in livestock;
	3. To promote and monitor the use of the technical and structural innovations developed in partnership at a regional and continental scale.

Methodology	In order to evaluate the project’s impact
	1. Household level data collection to establish a panel data set
	2. Impact analysis using DD-models

Contact	Sabine Liebenehm / N.N.
Partners	Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM)
	Free University of Berlin (FUB)
	Vétérinaires Sans Frontières – Belgium (VSF)
	Centre International de Recherche-Developpement sur l’Elevage en Zone Subhumide (CIRDES)
	National Animal Health Diagnostic and Investigation Centre (NAHDIC)
	University of Pretoria (UP)
	Direction de l’Elevage du Togo (VetTogo)
	Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (EMU)

Period	2012-2017
Funding/Sponsor	EU Commission
Budget	330 000 €
Keywords	Impact assessment, Livestock disease, Sub-Saharan Africa
Website	www.trypanocide.eu/


Title	Cost- benefit analysis of sustainability standards in small holder oil palm farming in Sumatra, Indonesia

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.
	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.
	Three hypotheses will be tested:
	(1) smallholder oil palm farmers are aware of the environmental standards promoted by the Government in oil palm plantations;
	(2) the benefits of sustainable oil palm management practices are uncertain;
	(3) woman can play a major role in implementing sustainable oil palm management practices.
	Fieldwork to test the first hypotheses has already been conducted during July - August 2012.
	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.

Methodology	Household level data collection to establish a panel data set

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


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)

Contact	Jan Meier / N.N.
Period	2011-2016
Funding/Sponsor	BMBF / DLR
Budget	310 000 €
Keywords


Title	Economics of African Animal Trypanosomiasis (AAT) management strategies under risk and time preferencies

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.
	The research project has two specific objectives, i.e.:
	(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
	(ii) Assess the long-term productivity of AAT disease control strategies including trypanocides in a dynamic modeling framework

Methodology	Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of preferences
	Stochastic dynamic programming

Contact	Sabine Liebenehm
Period	2008-2013
Funding/Sponsor	DFG
Budget	110 000 €
Keywords	Risk and time preferences, Livestock disease, West Africa


Title	Assessing the Potential of Fair Organic Certified Products for Sustainable Livelihoods in Developing Countries - The case of Black Pepper in India

Objectives	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?
	2. What is the impact of organic agriculture under fair trade promotion structures on the income and consumption of the household?

Methodology	1. Household level data collection to establish a panel data set
	2. Quantitative analysis using panel data models

Contact	Priyanka Parvathi
Period	2010-2013
Funding/Sponsor	Leibniz Universität Hannover
Keywords	Organic farming, Fair trade, Sustainability, Vulnerability, India


Title	Impact of shocks on the vulnerability to poverty: consequences for development of emerging Southeast Asian economies
	Sub-project TP 03
	The capacity of agriculture to adjust to economic crisis and environmental shocks in Thailand

Objectives	1. Investigating the changing role of agriculture before and after economic crisis in Thailand
	2. Analyzing the capacity of agriculture to adjust to environmental shocks in Vietnam
	3. Comparing and assessing the structural adjustment processes in agriculture in Thailand and Vietnam in view of economic crisis and environmental change
	4. Contribute to advancing the vulnerability concepts by incorporating agricultural household decision models
	5. Advance the concept of risk measurement

Methodology	1. Household level data collection to establish a panel data set
	2. Quantitative analysis using panel data models

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


Title	The Impact of Contract Farming in the Oil Palm Industry on Poverty Reduction: An Analysis of Supply Chain Partnership in Sumatra, Indonesia

Contact	Eko R. Cahyadi
Period	2009-
Fundung/Sponsor
Keywords	Contract farming, Oil palm, Treatment effect model, Vulnerability, Poverty


Title	The effect of social networks on vulnerability to poverty: A village level case study in Thailand.

Contact	Theda Gödecke
Period	2008-
Funding/ Sponsor
Keywords	Vulnerability to poverty, Thailand, Social networks, Village level case study


Title	Impact of shocks on vulnerability to poverty in Thailand and Vietnam: consequences for the development of emerging Southeast Asian economies

Contact	Duc Phung Tung
Period	2006-
Funding/ Sponsor
Keywords	Vulnerability to poverty, Thailand, Vietnam, Southeast Asian economies