Der Beitrag beinhaltet die Auswertung einer Unternehmensbefragung zum Engagement der hessischen Wirtschaft in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, die im Zeitraum Juli / August 2011 durchgeführt wurde. Im Rahmen dieser Untersuchung wurden wesentliche Aspekte der Aktivitäten der hessischen...

Effective management of natural resources in ecologically-fragile regions is a major concern for international development agencies and resource-dependent communities. It is suggested that multi-agency partnerships involving various stakeholders (donors, governmental agencies, non-governmental...

In the light of recent strong global increases of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Ethiopia is one of the developing countries having received high FDI inflows in its agribusiness sector especially since 2006. As the agribusiness sector is the base of the Ethiopian economy these increases may...

Angaben des Herkunftslandes auf Lebensmittelverpackungen sind von zunehmender Bedeutung und bieten Differenzierungspotentiale u.a. für Kakao-Erzeuger aus Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern. Inwiefern ein Country-of-Origin-Effekt für den deutschen Verbraucher bei der Qualitätswahrnehmung von...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Bestimmungsgründe der weltweiten Ausbreitung der ökologischen Landwirtschaft. Basierend auf der einschlägigen Literatur und in Anlehnung an die Standorttheorie wird zunächst ein theoretisches Modell für die Verbreitung des Ökolandbaus entwickelt....

This paper examines the impact of climate variability and shocks on non-farm employment in rural areas of Northeast Thailand. The paper utilizes a large panel data set that includes detailed and retrospective information about shock experience and a corresponding twenty-year historical...

In this study, Vietnamese households’ expenditure on dairy products for home consumption is analyzed using the latest Vietnamese Household Living Standard Survey datasets in 2010 (VHLSS 2010). Vietnam is the 20th most important importer of dairy products in the world and it is foreseeable that...

Against the background of the Middle East conflict we study the role of social embeddedness of economic actors belonging to both conflicting parties for their perceptions of transaction problems and capabilities to solve them. Our analysis is based on a quantitative survey among Israeli food...

Over the last decade, major shifts have occurred in international wheat trade. On the supply side, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan emerged as important wheat exporters and Russia is even projected to displace the United States as the leading exporter by 2021. We analyze the pricing behavior of...

The field of price transmission is dominated by econometric time-series analysis (PTA) and rather disconnected from analyses based on CGE models. This paper addresses how a certain degree of empirically determined price transmission can be met in a single country CGE model. We examine and...