Poor health conditions of livestock cause sizeable losses for many farmers in the Global South. Veterinary services …, including vaccinations, could help but often fail to reach farmers under typical smallholder conditions. Here, we examine how … designed to reduce typical adoption barriers. Using data from a choice experiment with dairy farmers in Kenya, we evaluate …

Poor health conditions of livestock cause sizeable losses for many farmers in the Global South. Veterinary services …, including vaccinations, could help but often fail to reach farmers under typical smallholder conditions. Here, we examine how … designed to reduce typical adoption barriers. Using data from a choice experiment with dairy farmers in Kenya, we evaluate …

issues are more complex in developing countries due to poverty and shortcomings in agricultural insurances. Poor farmers who …

Farmers' preferences for sustainability certification are analyzed, building on a choice experiment conducted with … smallholder coffee growers in Uganda. Farmers have positive general attitudes towards certification. While they dislike bans of … upgrading. Gender-disaggregated data reveal that female farmers have a higher preference for sustainability certification than …

smallholder farmers in developing countries. While previous studies have looked at economic impacts of contract schemes on … smallholder farmers, little is known about farmers' preferences for contracting in general, and for specific contract design … attributes in particular. Better understanding farmers' preferences and constraints is important to make smallholder contract …

The papers of the dissertation focus on decision making under uncertainty of farmers in developed and developing … paper experimentally examines the investment and disinvestment behavior of German farmers using an investment situation in … an agricultural context, while the second paper analyzes the investment behavior of Ugandan farmers using an investment …

Smallholder farmers in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to climate shocks but often lack access to …, higher levels of transparency, and offering contracts to small groups rather than individual farmers would increase …