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The Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade at the Tropentag Conference 2021

The Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade at the Tropentag Conference 2021

The Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade presented seven scientific contributions at Tropentag 2021 on the topic "Towards shifting paradigms in agriculture for a healthy and sustainable future".

The Tropentag Conference is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference addressing issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation worldwide. The (hybrid) conference took place during September 15-17, 2021 and was organized by the University of Hohenheim.

Contributions (live lectures and poster presentations) of the institute:

J. Yoon, R. Sharma: The Role of Social Capital on Food Security: Empirical Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Nguyen L.D., Nguyen T.T., Nguyen T.T., U. Grote: Health Shock, Household Consumption, and Over–indebtedness: Does Having Access to Financial Market Matter?

B. Ruesink, S. Gronau: What Makes Me Want You Here? Hosts’ Opinion Towards and Contact with Refugees for Integration – an African Settlement Setting

Do M.H., Nguyen T.T., U. Grote: Shock Experience, Risk Aversion, and Farm Production: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand

R. Sharma, R. Blake-Rath, U. Grote: Making Smart Choices – Behavioural Traits and Resilience to Environmental Shocks among Farming Households in Thailand

E. Seewald, O. Schulte, U. Grote: Risk-Management to Reduce Multidimensional Poverty? Comparative Evidence on the Effects of Crop Diversification on Poverty in Southeast Asia

L. Deißler, H. Krause, U. Grote: Gender Dynamics and Food Security in the Kenyan African Indigenous Vegetables Supply Chain

Link to Tropentag Website

 

 

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