Third-party funded projects - DFG funded

• Poverty dynamics and sustainable development: A long term panel project in Thailand and Vietnam - Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP)

  The objective of this project is to extend the panel household surveys in Thailand and Vietnam for another 9 years (6 waves of rural household and two waves for migrant surveys) to generate a much deeper understanding of income and poverty dynamics in rural areas of rapidly changing emerging economies.

  Year: 2018

  Lifespan: 2018 - 2022

Third-party funded projects

• Drivers of Change: Understanding the Process of Complex Technology Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

  The research focuses on the multi-dimensional process of technology adoption in small-scale farming households. Primary data from two agroforestry projects in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia are collected. Key research aspects include the identification of determinants of the adoption process of complex agroforestry technologies and the analysis of specific incentives regarding the promotion of innovations. Further, small-scale farmers’ aspirations and their respective impact on the adoption behavior will be analyzed.

  Team: M. Sc. Luzia Deißler, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Grote, Dr. Kai Mausch

  Year: 2021

  Sponsors: Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF), World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

  Lifespan: 01.04.2021 - 01.03.2024
• Interrelations between refugee and host communities in rural Zambia: A dynamic agent-based modeling application

  The research project focuses on a refugee camp in rural Zambia, where considerable refugee influxes from the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo are arriving. The core goal of the project is to investigate the interrelations between refugee and host communities in rural Zambia in the context of the rising number of refugee movements and the corresponding challenge to create long-term solutions.

  Leaders: Dr. Steven Gronau

  Team: Dr. Steven Gronau, M.Sc. Brigitte Ruesink

  Year: 2020

  Sponsors: Leibniz Young Investigator Grant of the Leibniz University Hannover

  Lifespan: 01.07.2020 – 30.06.2022

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