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Food and
Resource Economics

Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heckelei

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Theodor-Brinkmann-Award for Dr. Sebastian Rasch

"Theodor Brinkmann-Wissenschaftspreis" 2017 goes to Dr. Sebastian Rasch for his PhD-Thesis "Resilience, collapse and reorganization of a rangeland socio-ecological system in South Africa".

 

Publications from the dissertation

Rasch, S., Heckelei, T., Storm, H., Oomen, R., Naumann, C. (2017): Multi-scale resilience of a communal rangeland system in South Africa, Ecological Economics 131: 129-138 Link

Rasch, S., Heckelei, T., Oomen, R. (2016): Reorganizing resource use in a communal livestock productionsocio-ecological system in South Africa, Land Use Policy 52: 221-231 Link

Rasch, S., Heckelei, T., Oomen, R., Naumann, C. (2016): Cooperation and collapse in a communal livestock production SES model – A case from South Africa, Environmental Modelling & Software 75: 402-413 Link

Linstädter, A., Kuhn, A., Naumann, C., Rasch, S., Sandhage-Hofmann, A., Amelung, W., Jordaan, J., Du Preez, C., Bollig, M. (2016): Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: lessons from a multidisciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system, Ecology and Society 21: 35 Link

 

 

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Last Updated: Thursday, July 13, 2017

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Recent publications

• Effect of mineral fertilizer on rain water and radiation use efficiencies for maize yield and stover biomass productivity in Ethiopia Srivastava, A. K., Mboh, C. M., Gaiser, T., Kuhn, A., Engida, E., Ewert, F. (2019): Agricultural Systems 168: 88-100.
• Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach Zurek, M., Hebinck, A., Leip, A., Vervoort, J., Kuiper, M., Garrone, M., Havlik, P., Heckelei, T., Hornborg, S., Ingram, J. S., Kuijsten, A., Shutes, L., Geleijnse, J. M., Terluin, I., van´t Veer, P., Wijnands, J., Zimmermann, A., Achterbosch, T. (2018): Sustainability 10(11)(4271): pp. 1-16.
• Explaining farm structural change in the European agriculture: a novel analytical framework Neufeldt, S., Gocht, A., Heckelei, T., Ciaian, P. (2018): European Review of Agricultural Economics jby037: pp. 1-56.
• Brexit: an economy-wide impact assessment on trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2018): Empirica: 1-36.
• Heterogeneous impacts of neighbouring farm size on the decision to exit: evidence from Brittany Saint-Cyr, L. D. F., Storm, H., Heckelei, T., Piet, L. (2018): European Review of Agricultural Economics jby029: pp. 1-30.
• Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy Hasegawa, T., Fujimori, S., Havlik, P., Valin, H., Bodirsky, B. L., Doelman, J. C., Fellmann, T., Kyle, P., Koopman, J. F. L., Lotze-Campen, H., Mason-D Croz, D., Ochi, Y., Pèrez Dominguez, I., Stehfest, E., Sulser, T. B., Tabeau, A., Takahashi, K., Takakura, J. y., van Meijl, H., van Zeist, W.-J., Wiebe, K., Witzke, H.-P. (2018):
  Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy, Nature Climate Change 8: 699-703.
• Are maize marketers averse to quality loss in supplies? A case study from Ghana Bassey, N. E., Kuhn, A., Storm, H. (2018):
  "Are maize marketers averse to quality loss in supplies? A case study from Ghana", Agricultural Economics
• Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia Minten, B., Dereje, M., Engida, E., Tamru, S. (2018):
  "Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia", World Development 101: 119-132
• Modelling heterogeneous firms and non-tariff measures in free trade agreements using Computable General Equilibrium Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2018):
  "Modelling heterogeneous firms and non-tariff measures in free trade agreements using Computable General Equilibrium", Economic Modelling
• Reducing omitted-variable bias in spatial-interaction models by considering multiple neighbourhoods Storm, H., Heckelei, T. (2018):
  "Reducing omitted-variable bias in spatial-interaction models by considering multiple neighbourhoods", Spatial Economic Analysis
• Does the current trade liberalization agenda contribute to greenhouse gas emission mitigation in agriculture? Himics, M., Fellmann, T., Barreiro-Hurle, J., Witzke, H.-P., Perez Dominguez, I., Jansson, T., Weiss, F.(2018):
  "Does the current trade liberalization agenda contribute to greenhouse gas emission mitigation in agriculture?", Food Policy article in press
• Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks Fellmann, T., Witzke, H.-P., Weiss, F., van Doorslaer, B., Dusan, D., Huck, I., Salputra, G., Jansson, T., Leip, A. (2018):
  "Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks", Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 23(3), pp 451-468
• Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: The vision of the SUSFANS project Rutten, M., Achterbosch, T., de Boer, I., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Geleijnse, M., Havlik, P., Heckelei, T., Ingram, J. S., Leip, A., Marette, S., van Meijl, H., Soler, L. -G., Swinnen, J. F., van't Veer, P., Vervoort, J., Zimmermann, A., Zimmermann, K. and Zurek, M. (2018):
  "Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: The vision of the SUSFANS project", Agricultural Systems 163, pp.45-57