Als Reaktion auf die Verbreitung von globalen privaten Lebensmittelstandards gehen einige Entwicklungsländer mit der Gründung eigener nationaler Food Standards einen Weg, um sich in wichtigen Exportländern zu positionieren. Allerdings wirken negative Herkunftsimages dem Aufbau von...

Strategic management (STM) is recognized as an important element for firms’ success; however, small firms, especially in agribusiness, have widely been overlooked because it is often thought that a systematic STM is exclusively for large corporate firms. Firms engage in STM practices such as...

Syrian agriculture faces new opportunities in a liberalized trading world. The European Union has been one of the most important new markets for the Syrian citrus output but trading among the neighbors has to expand in the future, specially, with the countries of (GAFTA) region and eastern...

Die vorliegende Dissertation vergleicht die Motive und Werte für den Kauf von Biolebensmitteln in Deutschland und Mexiko. Die durchgeführte internationale Literaturrecherche gibt ausreichend Hinweise darauf, dass in entwickelten Staaten sowie Entwicklungsländern die Beweggründe und...

Despite remarkable advances, overcoming rural poverty and food insecurity in developing countries remains one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Increasing production and income opportunities in the agricultural sector is one of the key factors to achieve these goals. While...

This thesis contributes to the understanding of the economic decision making of farmers. In five chapters, different experimental investigations of preferences and cognitive biases are presented. Various experimental measures of risk and time preference are applied to analyze farmers’...

According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in the next 40 years, tropical forests are among the biomes projected to lose habitat and species most rapidly. Yet these biomes provide numerous ecosystem services that confer local, regional and global economic benefits. One of these forests,...