RTG 1666: Transformation of Global Agri-Food Systems

Journal Publications

Selected Journal Articles


2021


  • Jäckering, L., E.M. Meemken, J. Sellare, M. Qaim (2021). Promoting written employment contracts: Evidence from a randomised awareness campaign. European Review of Agricultural Economics, jbaa035, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa035
  • Knößlsdorfer, I., J. Sellare, M. Qaim (2021). Effects of Fairtrade on farm household food security and living standards: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire. Global Food Security 29, 100535. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100535
  • Otterbach, S., H. Oskorouchi, M. Rogan, M. Qaim (2021). Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic. World Development, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105368
  • Ruml, A., M Qaim (2021). New evidence regarding the effects of contract farming on agricultural labor use. Agricultural Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12606
  • Ruml, A., C. Ragasa, M. Qaim (2021). Contract Farming, Contract Design, and Smallholder Livelihoods. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12462

    • 2020


    • Adetoyinbo, A., V. Otter (2020). Organizational structures, gender roles and upgrading strategies of smallholders: A qualitative study of the local value chain in the Nigerian fishing sector. Business Strategy and Development. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.138
    • Debela, B.L., K.M. Demmler, S. Klasen, M. Qaim (2020). Supermarket Food Purchases and Child Nutrition in Kenya. Global Food Security. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100341
    • Demmler, K.M., Qaim, M. (2020). Africa’s Changing Food Environments and Nutritional Effects on Adults and Children. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 121: 31-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000507492
    • Fiankor, D.D.D., D. Curzi, A. Olper (2020). Trade, price and quality upgrading effects of agrifood standards. European Review of Agricultural Economics, jbaa026, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa026
    • Fiankor, D.D.D., O.K. Haase, B. Brümmer (2020). The heterogeneous effects of standards on agricultural trade flows. Journal of Agricultural Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12405
    • Fiankor, D.D.D., I. Flachsbarth, A. Masood, B. Brümmer (2020). Does GlobalGAP certification promote agrifood exports? European Review of Agricultural Economics 47(1), 247-272.
    • Grosch, K., H. Rau (2020). Procedural unfair wage differentials and their effects on unethical behavior. Economic Inquiry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12906
    • Khonje, M.G., Ecker, O., Qaim, M. (2020). Effects of modern food retailers on adult and child diets and nutrition. Nutrients 12(6), 1714. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061714
    • Krämer, M., S. Kumar, S. Vollmer (2020). Improving child health and cognition: Evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India. The Review of Economics and Statistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00950
    • Krumbiegel, K., M. Maertens, M. Wollni (2020). Can employment empower women? Female workers in the pineapple sector in Ghana. The Journal of Rural Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.05.012
    • Landmann, D., C. Lagerkvist, V. Otter (2020). Determinants of Small-Scale Farmers’ Intention to Use Smartphones for Generating Agricultural Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural India. European Journal of Development Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00284-x
    • Lin, J., Flachsbarth, I., & von Cramon‐Taubadel, S. (2020). The role of institutional quality on the performance in the export of coconut products. Agricultural Economics, 51(2), 237-258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12552
    • Luo, H., X. Yu (2020). National day holiday and Weight Gain in China: evidence from the CHNS surveys, Applied Economics Letters, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1861184
    • Meemken, E.M. (2020). Do smallholder farmers benefit from sustainability standards? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Global Food Security 26, 100373.
    • Parlasca, M. C., D. Hermann, O. Mußhoff (2020). Can mobile phones build social trust? Insights from rural Kenya. Journal of Rural Studies, 79, 345-360. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.015
    • Parlasca, M. C., Mußhoff, O., Qaim, M. (2020). Can mobile phones improve nutrition among pastoral communities? Panel data evidence from Northern Kenya. Agricultural Economics 51: 475– 488. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12566
    • Oskorouchi, H.R., A. Sousa-Poza (in press). Floods, food security, and coping strategies: Evidence from Afghanistan. Agricultural Economics
    • Ruml, A., & Qaim, M. (2020). Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector: Insights from oil palm production in Ghana. World Development, 136, 105110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105110
    • Ruml, A., M Qaim (2020). Smallholder farmers’ dissatisfaction with contract schemes in spite of economic benefits: Issues of mistrust and lack of transparency. Journal of Development Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1850699
    • Sellare, J., Meemken, E. M., Kouamé, C., Qaim, M. (2020). Do Sustainability Standards Benefit Smallholder Farmers Also When Accounting For Cooperative Effects? Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajae.12015
    • Sellare, J., Meemken, E. M., Qaim, M. (2020). Fairtrade, Agrochemical Input Use, and Effects on Human Health and the Environment. Ecological Economics, Vol. 176, 106718. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106718
    • Werner, A., Spiller, A., Meyerding, S. (2020): The yoga of sustainable diets: Exploring consumers mind and spirit. Journal of Cleaner Production, 243, 118473. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118473
    • Yu, X., Luo, H., Wang, H., & Feil, J. H. (2020). Climate change and agricultural trade in central Asia: evidence from Kazakhstan. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 6(1), 1766380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2020.1766380



      • 2019


      • Depenbusch L., Klasen S. (2019) The effect of bigger human bodies on the future global calorie requirements. PLOS ONE 14(12): e0223188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223188
      • Fiankor, D-D.D., I. Flachsbarth, A. Masood, B. Brümmer (2019). Does GlobalGAP certification promote agrifood exports?. European Review of Agricultural Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbz023
      • Fiankor, D-D.D., I. Martínez-Zarzoso, B. Brümmer (2019). Exports and governance: the role of private voluntary agrifood standards. Agricultural Economics 50(3): 341-352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12488
      • Fongar, A., T. Gödecke, A. Aseta, M. Qaim (2019). How well do different dietary and nutrition assessment tools match? Insights from rural Kenya. Public Health Nutrition 22(3), 391-403. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018002756
      • Fongar, A., T. Gödecke, M. Qaim (2019). Various Forms of Double Burden of Malnutrition Problems Exist in Rural Kenya. BMC Public Health 19: 1543 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7882-y
      • Iweala, S., A. Spiller, S. Meyerding (2019) Buy good, feel good? The influence of the warm glow of giving on the evaluation of food items with ethical claims in the U.K. and Germany. Journal of Cleaner Production (215), 315 - 328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.266
      • Khonje, M. G., & Qaim, M. (2019). Modernization of African Food Retailing and (Un) healthy Food Consumption. Sustainability, 11(16), 4306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11164306
      • Lemken, D., Spiller, A., & Schulze-Ehlers, B. (2019). More room for legume–Consumer acceptance of meat substitution with classic, processed and meat-resembling legume products. Appetite, 143, 104412. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104412
      • Lin, J., S. Gupta, T.K. Loos, R. Birner (2019). Opportunities and challenges in the Ethiopian bamboo sector: a market analysis of the bamboo-based value web. Sustainability 11(6), 1644. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061644
      • Meemken, E.M., J. Sellare, C. Kouame, M. Qaim (2019). Effects of Fairtrade on the livelihoods of poor rural workers. Nature Sustainability. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0311-5
      • Ogutu, S. O., Gödecke, T. and Qaim, M. (2019), Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder Farm Households. J Agric Econ. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12359
      • Ogutu, S.O., M. Qaim (2019). Commercialization of the small farm sector and multidimensional
        poverty. World Development 114, 281-293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.10.012

        • 2018


        • Benali, M., B. Brümmer, V. Afari-Sefa (2018). Smallholder participation in vegetable exports and age‐disaggregated labor allocation in Northern Tanzania. Agricultural Economics 49(5), 549-562. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12441
        • Demmler, K.M., O. Ecker, M. Qaim (2018). Supermarket Shopping and Nutritional Outcomes: A Panel Data Analysis for Urban Kenya. World Development. (open access)
        • Depenbusch, L., M. Ehrich, U. Pfizenmaier (2018). Craft Beer in Germany. New Entries in a Challenging Beer Market. In C. Garavaglia, J. Swinnen (Eds.). Economic Perspectives on Craft Beer. A Revolution in the Global Beer Industry. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
        • Ehrich, M., A. Munasib, D. Roy (2018). The Hartz reforms and the German labor force. European Journal of Political Economy. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.01.007
        • Ehrich, M., A. Mangelsdorf (2018). The Role of Private Standards for Manufactured Food Exports from Developing Countries. World Development 101, 16-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.004
        • Fischer, S., M. Wollni (2018). The role of farmers’ trust, risk and time preferences for contract choices: Experimental evidence from the Ghanaian pineapple sector. Food Policy 81, 67-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.10.005
        • Flachsbarth, I., Schotte, S., Lay, J. et al. (2018). Rural structural change, poverty and income distribution: evidence from Peru. Journal of Economic Inequality 16, 631- 653. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-018-9392-z
        • Freudenreich, H., O. Mußhoff (2018). Insurance for Technology Adoption: An Experimental Evaluation of Schemes and Subsidies with Maize Farmers in Mexico. Journal of Agricultural Economics 69(1), 96-120. DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12226
        • Gassler, B., A. Spiller (2018). Is it all in the MIX? Consumer preferences for segregated and mass balance certified sustainable palm oil. Journal of Cleaner Production 195, 21-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.05.039
        • Gassler, B., Q. Xiao, S. Kühl, A. Spiller (2018). Keep on grazing: Factors driving the pasture raised milk market in Germany. British Food Journal 120(2), 452-467. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-03-2017-0128
        • Ihli, H. J., Gassner, A., & Musshoff, O. (2018). Experimental insights on the investment behavior of small-scale coffee farmers in central Uganda under risk and uncertainty. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 75, 31-44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.04.011
        • Jäckering, L., A. Fongar, T. Gödecke, S. Ogutu, M. Wollni, M. Qaim (2018). Wechselwirkungen zwischen Landwirtschaft und Ernährung im Kleinbauernsektor Afrikas. Ernährung im Fokus, 07-08.2018.
        • Kareem, F.O., Martinez-Zarzoso, I., and Brümmer, B. (2018). Protecting Health or Protecting Imports? Evidence from EU Non-Tariff Measures. International Review of Economics and Finance, 53, 185-202.
        • Kimenju, S.C. (2018). Ultra-processed foods and obesity in Central Kenya. In Barling, D. and Fanzo, J., Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, 3:69-92. Academic Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.af2s.2018.09.003
        • Krumbiegel, K., M. Maertens, M. Wollni (2018). The Role of Fairtrade Certification for Wages and Job Satisfaction of Plantation Workers. World Development 102, 195-212. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.09.020
        • Meemken, E.-M., M. Qaim (2018). Can private food standards promote gender equality in the small farm sector? Journal of Rural Studies 58, 39-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.030
        • Meemken, E.-M., M. Qaim (2018). Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment. Annual Review of Resource Economics. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100517-023252
        • Murendo, C., M. Wollni, A. de Brauw, N. Mugabi (2018): Social network effects on mobile money adoption in Uganda. Journal of Development Studies 54(2), 327-342. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1296569
        • Ogutu, S.O., A. Fongar, T. Gödecke, L. Jäckering, H. Mwololo, M. Njuguna, M. Wollni, M. Qaim (2018). How to make farming and agricultural extension more nutrition-sensitive: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Kenya. European Review of Agricultural Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jby049
        • Qaim, M., K.T. Sibhatu (2018). On the Link between Production Diversity and Dietary Quality in Smallholder Farm Households. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 118, 102–111. DOI: 10.1159/000484510.
        • Romero, C., M. Wollni (2018). Opportunistic behaviour and trust: Experimental results from broccoli farmers in Ecuador. Journal of Agricultural Economics. DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12271
        • Romero, C., M. Wollni (2018): Dynamics of smallholder participation in horticultural export chains – evidence from Ecuador. Agricultural Economics 49(2), 225-235. DOI: 10.1111/agec.12411
        • Sibhatu, K.T., M. Qaim (2018). Farm production diversity and dietary quality: linkages and measurement issues. Food Security 10(1), 47-59. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-017-0762-3
        • Sibhatu, K. T., M. Qaim (2018). Meta-analysis of the association between production diversity, diets, and nutrition in smallholder farm households. Food Policy. (open access)
        • Sibiko, K.W., P.C. Veettil, M. Qaim (2018). Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya. Agriculture & Food Security 7:53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-018-0200-6
        • Tothmihaly, A. (2018). How low is the price elasticity in the global cocoa market? African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 13(3), 209-223.
        • Tothmihaly, A., V. Ingram (2018). How can the productivity of Indonesian cocoa farmers be increased? Agribusiness. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21595


        2017


        • Andersson, C., M. Bezabih, A. Mannberg (2017). The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange and spatial price dispersion. Food Policy 66, 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.11.003

        • Debela, B.L., K.M. Demmler, R. Rischke, M. Qaim (2017). Maternal nutrition knowledge and child nutritional outcomes in urban Kenya. Appetite 116, 518-526. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.05.042
        • Demmler, K.M., S. Klasen, J.M. Nzuma, M. Qaim (2017). Supermarket purchase contributes to nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in urban Kenya. PLoS ONE 12(9): e0185148.
          (open access)
        • Ebata, A., P.A. Velasco Pacheco, S. von Cramon-Taubadel (2017). The influence of proximity to market on bean producer prices in Nicaragua. Agricultural Economics. DOI: 10.1111/agec.12347
        • Euler, M., V. Krishna, S. Schwarze, H. Siregar, M. Qaim (2017). Oil palm adoption, household welfare, and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Indonesia. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.019
        • Grosch, K., H.A. Rau (2017). Gender differences in honesty: The role of social value orientation. Journal of Economic Psychology 62, 258-267. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2017.07.008
        • Jamora, N., S. von Cramon-Taubadel (2017). What world price? Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy 39(3), 479-498. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppw028.
        • Koppmair, S., M. Kassie, M. Qaim (2017). Farm production, market access and dietary diversity in Malawi. Public Health Nutrition 20, 325-335. (open access)
        • Kunte, S., M. Wollni, C. Keser (2017). Making it personal: breach and private ordering in a contract farming experiment. European Review of Agricultural Economics 44(1), 121-148.
        • Lemken, D., A. Spiller, M. von Meyer-Höfer (2017). The Case of Legume-Cereal Crop Mixtures in Modern Agriculture and the Transtheoretical Model of Gradual Adoption. Ecological Economics 137, 20-28.
        • Lemken, D., M. Knigge, S. Meyerding, A. Spiller (2017). The Value of Environmental and Health Claims on New Legume Products: A Non-Hypothetical Online Auction. Sustainability 9(8). DOI: 10.3390/su9081340.
        • Meemken, E.-M., P.C. Veettil, M. Qaim (2017). Toward improving the design of sustainability standards - a gendered analysis of farmers' preferences. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.05.021.
        • Meemken, E.-M., D.J. Spielman, M. Qaim (2017). Trading off nutrition and education? A panel data analysis of the dissimilar welfare effects of Organic and Fairtrade standards. Food Policy 71, 74-85.
        • Ochieng, D.O., P.C. Veettil, M. Qaim (2017). Farmers' preferences for supermarket contracts in Kenya. Food Policy 68, 100-111.
        • Qaim, M. (2017). Globalisation of agrifood systems and sustainable nutrition. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 76, 12-21. (open access)
        • Sekabira, H., M. Qaim (2017). Mobile money, agricultural marketing, and off-farm income in Uganda. Agricultural Economics 48(5). DOI: 10.1111/agec.12360.
        • Sekabira, H., M. Qaim (2017). Can mobile phones improve gender equality and nutrition? Panel data
          evidence from farm households in Uganda. Food Policy 73, 95-103. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.10.004
        • Sibhatu, K.T., M. Qaim (2017). Rural food security, subsistence agriculture, and seasonality. PLoS ONE 12 (10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186406.
        • Veettil, P.C., V.V. Krishna, M. Qaim (2017). Ecosystem impacts of pesticide reductions through Bt cotton adoption. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 61, 115-134.


        2016


        • Chiputwa, B., M. Qaim (2016). Sustainability standards, gender, and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Uganda. Journal of Development Studies, Doi: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1156090.
        • Debela, B.L. (2016). Factors Affecting Differences in Livestock Ownership between Male and Female-headed Households in Northern Ethiopia. European Journal of Development Research. DOI:10.1057/ejdr.2016.9.
        • Gassler, B., M. von Meyer-Höfer, A. Spiller (2016). Exploring Consumers' Expectations of Sustainability in Mature and Emerging Markets. Journal of Global Marketing. DOI: 10.1080/08911762.2015.1133869
        • Handschuch, C., M. Wollni (2016). Traditional food crop marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa: does gender matter? Journal of Development Studies 52(3), 343-359.
        • Ihli, H.J., B. Chiputwa, O. Musshoff (2016). Do Changing Probabilities or Payoffs in Lottery-Choice Experiments Affect Risk Preference Outcomes? Evidence from Rural Uganda. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 41(2), 324-345.
        • Jamora, N., S. von Cramon-Taubadel (2016). Transaction Cost Thresholds in International Rice Markets. Journal of Agricultural Economics 67, 292-307.
        • Kareem, F. O., B. Brümmer, I. Martinez-Zarzoso (2016). European Union Market Access Conditions and Africa's Extensive Margin of Food Trade. The World Economy. DOI: 10.1111/twec.12466
        • Kathage, J., M. Kassie, B. Shiferaw, M. Qaim (2016). Big Constraints or small returns? Explaining nonadoption of hybrid maize in Tanzania. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 38, 113-131.
        • Kimenju, S.C., M. Qaim (2016). The nutrition transition and indicators of child malnutrition. Food Security, Doi: 10.1007/s12571-016-0566-x.
        • Kouyaté, C., S. von Cramon-Taubadel (2016). Distance and Border Effects on Price Transmission: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Agricultural Economics 67, 255-271.
        • Kouyaté, C., S. von Cramon-Taubadel, I. Fofana (2016). Proximity and price co-movement in West African rice markets. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 11(3), 167-182.
        • Krämer, M., R. Kupka, S.V. Subramanian, S. Vollmer (2016). Association between household unavailability of iodized salt and child growth: evidence from 89 demographic and health surveys. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 104(4), 1093-1100.
        • Kumar, S., R. Molitor, S. Vollmer (2016). Drought and Early Child Health in Rural India. Population and Development Review 42(1), 53-68.
        • Minos, D., I. Butzlaff, K.M. Demmler, R. Rischke (2016). Economic Growth, Climate Change, and Obesity. Current Obesity Reports 5(4), 441-448. DOI: 10.1007/s13679-016-0234-7
        • Sidali, K.L., A. Spiller, M. von Meyer-Höfer (2016). Consumer Expectations Regarding Sustainable Food: Insights from Developed and Emerging Markets. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 19(3), 141-170. (open access)
        • Sonntag, W., V. Otter, V. Kersting, L. Theuvsen (2016). Have industrialized countries shut the door and left the key inside? Rethinking the role of private standards in international fruit trade. International Food Agribusiness Management Review 19(2), 1-20.
        • Vollmer, S., C. Bommer, A. Krishna, K. Harttgen, S.V. Subramanian (2016). The Association of Parental Education with Childhood Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Comparing the Role of Paternal and Maternal Education. International Journal of Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw133
        • Wainaina, P., S. Tongruksawattana, M. Qaim (2016). Tradeoffs and complementarities in the adoption of improved seeds, fertilizer, and natural resource management technologies in Kenya. Agricultural Economics 47, 351-362.
        • Weinrich, R., A. Spiller (2016). Can a Multi-Level Label do Better than a Binary Label for Animal Welfare? A PLS-Analysis of Consumer Satisfaction. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 19(3), 1-30. (open access)
        • Weinrich, R., A. Spiller (2016). Developing food labelling strategies: Multi-level labelling. Journal of Cleaner Production 137, 1138-1148. DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.156.


        2015


        • Andersson, C.I.M., C.G.K. Chege, E.J.O. Rao, M. Qaim (2015). Following up on smallholder Farmers and Supermarkets in Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 97, 1247-1266.
        • Chege, C.G.K., C.I.M. Andersson, M. Qaim (2015). Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya. World Development 72, 394-407.
        • Chen D., D. Abler, D. Zhou, X. Yu, W. Thompson (2015). A meta-analysis of food demand elasticities for China. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Doi: 10.1093/aepp/ppv006.
        • Chiputwa, B., D.J. Spielman, M. Qaim (2015). Food standards, certification, and poverty among coffee farmers in Uganda. World Development 66, 400-412.
        • Harttgen, K., S. Klasen, R. Rischke (2015). Analyzing nutritional impacts of price and income related shocks in Malawi: Simulating Household Entitlements to Food. Food Policy (2015).
        • Krishna, V.V, D.J. Spielman, P.C. Veettil (2015). Exploring the supply and demand factors of varietal turnover in Indian wheat. Journal of Agricultural Science. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021859615000155.
        • Kimenju, S.C., R. Rischke, S. Klasen, M. Qaim (2015). Do supermarkets contribute to the obesity pandemic in developing countries? Public Health Nutrition 18, 3224-3233.
        • Rischke, R., S.C. Kimenju, S. Klasen, M. Qaim (2015). Supermarkets and food consumption patterns: The case of small towns in Kenya. Food Policy 52, 9-21.
        • Sibhatu, K.T., V.V. Krishna, M. Qaim (2015). Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112, 10657-10662. (open access)
        • Wollni, M., E. Fischer (2015). Member Deliveries in Collective Marketing Relationships: Evidence from Coffee Cooperatives in Costa Rica. European Review of Agricultural Economics 42(2), 287-314.
        • Zhou D., D. Koemle (2015). Price transmission in hog and feed markets of China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. Doi: 10.1016/S2095-3119(14)60995-3 .
        • Zorya, S., S. von Cramon-Taubadel, F. Greb, N. Jamora, C. Mengel, N. Würriehausen (2015). Price transmission from world to local grain markets in developing countries - why it matters, how it works, and how it should be enhanced. In I. Gillson, A. Fouad (Eds). Trade policy and food security: improving access to food in developing countries in the wake of high world prices. Washington, DC: World Bank.


        2014


        • Asiedu, E., T. Stengos (2014). An empirical estimation of the underground economy in Ghana. Economic Research International. DOI: 10.1155/2014/891237.
        • Boztug, Y., L. Hildebrandt, K. Raman (2014). Detecting price thresholds in choice models using a semi-parametric approach. OR Spectrum 36(1), 187-207.
        • De Groote, H., C.K. Chege, K. Tomlins, N.S. Gunaratna (2014). Combining experimental auctions with a modified home-use test to assess rural consumers' acceptance of quality protein maize, a biofortified crop. Food Quality and Preference Journal 38, 1-13.
        • De Groote, H., N.S. Gunaratna, J.O. Okuro, A. Wondimu, C.K. Chege, K. Tomlins (2014). Consumer acceptance of quality protein maize (QPM) in East Africa. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.6672.
        • Dominic, T., L. Theuvsen, M. Mvungi, R. Ufunguo (2014). HomeVeg Tanzania: Managing a new strategy amidst GLIMPSE challenges. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (Special Issue B), 207-211.
        • Goetzke, B., S. Nitzko, A. Spiller (2014). Consumption of organic and functional food: a matter of well-being and health? Appetite 77, 96-105.
        • Holzapfel, S., M. Wollni (2014). Is GlobalGAP certification of small-scale farmers sustainable? Evidence from Thailand. Journal of Development Studies 50(5), 731-747.
        • Ihli, H.J., S.C. Maart, O. Mußhoff (2014). Does timing matter? A real options experiment to farmers' investment and disinvestment behaviors. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 58(3), 430-452.
        • Kersting, S., M. Wollni (2014). Innovative business models in the Thai horticultural sector: a panel data analysis of the impacts of GlobalGAP certification. In: R.D.D. Christy, C.A. da Silva, N. Mhlanga, E. Mabaya, K. Tihanyi (eds.): Innovative Institutions, Public Policies and Private Strategies for Agro-Enterprise Development. World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc.
        • Klein, N., T. Kneib, S. Klasen, S. Lang (2014). Bayesian structural additive distributional regression for multivariate responses. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C 64(4), 1-12.
        • Lakner, S., M. von Meyer-Höfer (2014). Sustainability of agricultural supply chains: the case of organic farming in Germany. In: A. Engler, R. Valdes, J. Diaz, S. von Cramon-Taubadel, S. Lakner (Eds.). Understanding the Agricultural Sector in Latin America: Results from a Chilean-German Academic Cooperation. Universidad de Talca: Talca, pp. 149-169.
        • Maart, S.C., O. Mußhoff (2014). Measuring the subjective risk attitude of decision-makers: are there differences between groups of methods and persons? Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 58(3), 336-352.
        • Ndlovu, P.V., K. Mazvimavi, H. An, C. Murendo (2014). Productivity and efficiency analysis of maize under conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe. Agricultural Systems 124, 21-31.
        • Otter, V., A. Engler, L. Theuvsen (2014). The influence of the interplay of supply chain network relationships on smallholder performance in the Chilean NTAE- sector. Journal on Chain and Network Science.
        • Otter, V., B. Prechtel, L. Theuvsen (2014). The country-of-origin effect for chocolate from Ecuadorian cocoa: An empirical analysis of consumer perception. Economia Agro- Alimentare (2014).
        • Ritter, M., O. Mußhoff, M. Odening (2014). Minimizing geographical basis risk of weather derivatives using a multi-site rainfall model. Computational Economics 44(1), 67-86.
        • Saenger, C., M. Torero, M. Qaim (2014). Impact of third-party contract enforcement in agricultural markets - a field experiment in Vietnam. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96(4), 1220-1238.
        • Schuch, J., S. Jahn, Y. Boztug (2014). The role of category average reference points and health halos in purchase intentions of healthy and hedonic food. Advances in Consumer Research 42 (2014).
        • Schulze-Ehlers, B., N. Steffen, G. Busch, A. Spiller (2014). Supply chain orientation in SMEs as an attitudinal construct. Supply Chain Management 19(4), 395-412.
        • Sporleder, E.M., M. Kayser, N. Friedrich, L. Theuvsen (2014). Consumer preferences for sustainably produced bananas: a discrete choice experiment. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17, 59-82.
        • Uddin, M.M., B. Brümmer, K.J. Peters (2014). Technical efficiency and metatechnology ratios under varying resource endowment in different production systems: a stochastic metafrontier model in Bangladesh dairy farms. China Agricultural Economic Review 6(3), 485-505.
        • Vollmer, S., K. Harttgen, M. Subramanyam, J. Finlay, S. Klasen, S.V. Subramanian (2014). Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet Global Health 2(4), 225-234.
        • von Meyer-Höfer, M., A. Spiller (2014). Characteristics and barriers of sustainable food consumption in Germany. In M. Eder, F. Sinabell, T. Stern (Eds.) Jahrbuch der Österreichische Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie ÖGA, Vol. 23. Facultas Verlag: Wien, 231-240.
        • von Meyer-Höfer, M., E. Olea Jaik, C. Padilla Bravo, A. Spiller (2014). Mature and emerging organic markets: modelling consumer attitude and behaviour with partial least square approach. Journal of Food Products Marketing (in press).
        • von Meyer-Höfer, M., S. Nitzko, A. Spiller (2014). Is there an expectation gap? Consumers' expectations towards organic: An exploratory survey in mature and emerging European organic food markets. British Food Journal 117(5), 1527-1546.
        • von Meyer-Höfer, M., V. von der Wense, A. Spiller (2014). Characterising convinced sustainable food consumers. British Food Journal (in press).
        • Wollni, M., C. Andersson (2014). Spatial patterns of organic agriculture adoption: evidence from Honduras. Ecological Economics 97, 120-128.
        • Yu X., D. Abler (2014). Where have all the pigs gone? Inconsistencies in pork statistics in China. China Economic Review 30, 469-484.
        • Yu X., Z. Gao, Y. Zeng (2014). Willingness to pay for the "Green Food" in China. Food Policy 45, 80-87.
        • Yu, X., B. Yan, Z. Gao (2014). Can willingness-to-pay values be manipulated? Evidence from an experiment on organic food in China. Agricultural Economics 45(S1), 119-127.
        • Zhou, D., X. Yu (2014). Calorie elasticities with income dynamics: Evidence from the literature. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2014).
        • Zhou, D., X. Yu, T. Herzfeld (2014). Dynamic food demand in urban China. China Agricultural Economic Review (2014).


        2013


        • Andersson, C.I.M. (2013). Counterproductive counternarcotic strategies? American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95, 917-931.
        • Branisa, B., S. Klasen, M. Ziegler (2013). Gender inequality in social institutions and gendered development outcomes. World Development 45, 252-268.
        • Feil, J.H., O. Mußhoff (2013). Modelling investment and disinvestment decisions under competition, uncertainty and different market interventions. Economic Modelling 35, 443-452.
        • Gaddis, I., S. Klasen (2013). Economic development, structural change, and women's labor force participation rate: a re-examination of the feminization U-hypothesis. Journal of Population Economics 27, 639-681.
        • Gao Z., X. Yu, J. Lee (2013). Consumer demand for healthy diet: new evidence from the healthy eating index. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 57(3), 301-319.
        • Götz, L., T. Glauben, B. Brümmer (2013). Wheat export restrictions and domestic market effects in Russia and Ukraine during the food crisis. Food Policy 38, 214-226.
        • Greb, F., S. von Cramon-Taubadel, T. Kribovokova, A. Munk (2013). The estimation of threshold models in price transmission analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(4), 900-916.
        • Greb, F., T. Kribovokova, A. Munk, S. von Cramon-Taubadel (2013). Regularized Bayesian estimation of generalized threshold regression models. Bayesian Analysis 9(1), 171-196.
        • Handschuch, C., M. Wollni, P. Villalobos (2013). Adoption of food safety and quality standards among Chilean raspberry producers - do smallholders benefit? Food Policy 40, 64-73
        • Harttgen, K., S. Klasen, S. Vollmer (2013). Economic growth and child undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review 39(3), 397-412.
        • Hemmerling, S., T. Obermowe, M. Canavari, K.L. Sidali, H. Stolz, A. Spiller (2013). Organic food labels as a signal of sensory quality - insights from a cross-cultural consumer survey. Organic Agriculture 3(1), 57-69.
        • Holst, R., X. Yu, C. Gruen (2013). Climate change, risk and grain yields in China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 12, 1279-1291.
        • Ibanez, M., P. Martinson (2013). Curbing coca cultivation in Colombia - a framed field experiment. Journal of Public Economics 105, 1-10.
        • Ihli, H.J., S.C. Maart, O. Mußhoff (2013). Does timing matter? A real options experiment to farmers' investment and disinvestment behaviors. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (in press).
        • Kayser, M., S. Nitzko, A. Spiller (2013). Analysis of differences in meat consumption patterns. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 16, 43-56.
        • Klasen, S., J. Priebe, R. Rudolf (2013). Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post-crisis Indonesia. Agricultural Economics 44, 349?364.
        • Maart, S.C., O. Mußhoff (2013). Investing today or tomorrow? An experimental approach to farmers' decision behaviour. Journal of Agricultural Economics 64(2), 295-318.
        • Maart, S.C., O. Mußhoff, M. Maack (2013). The impact of price floors on farmland investments: a real options based experimental analysis. Applied Economics 45(35), 4872-4882.
        • Mußhoff, O., M. Odening, C. Schade, S.C. Maart, S. Sandri (2013). Inertia in disinvestment decisions: experimental evidence. European Review of Agricultural Economics 40(3), 463-485.
        • Padilla Bravo, C., A. Cordts, B. Schulze, A. Spiller (2013). Assessing determinants of organic food consumption using data from the German National Nutrition Survey II. Food Quality and Preference 28(1), 60-70.
        • Rao, E.J.O., M. Qaim (2013). Supermarkets and agricultural labor demand in Kenya: a gendered perspective. Food Policy 38, 165-176.
        • Reimers, M., S. Klasen (2013). Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(1), 131-152.
        • Roemling, C., M. Qaim (2013). Dual burden households and intra-household nutritional inequality in Indonesia. Economics and Human Biology 11, 563-573.
        • Saenger, C., M. Qaim, M. Torero, A. Viceisza (2013). Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector. Agricultural Economics 44, 297-308.
        • Sathe, D., S. Klasen, J. Priebe, M. Biniwale (2013). Can the female sarpanch deliver? Evidence from Maharashtra. Economic and Political Weekly 48(11), 50-57.
        • Tian X., X. Yu (2013). The demand for nutrients in China. Frontiers of Economics in China 8(2), 186-206.
        • Tubetov, D., S.C. Maart, O. Mußhoff (2013). Real options or net present value? An experimental approach on the investment behavior of Kazakhstani and German farmers. Agricultural Finance Review (in press).
        • von Meyer-Höfer, M., A. Spiller (2013). Anforderungen an eine nachhaltige Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft: Die Rolle des Konsumenten. In: Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V. (KTBL) (Hrsg.). Steuerungsinstrumente für eine nachhaltige Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft - Stand und Perspektiven, KTBL-Schrift 500, 7-15.


        2012


        • Amikuzuno, J., S. von Cramon-Taubadel (2012). Seasonal variation in price transmission between tomato markets in Ghana. Journal of African Economies 21(4), 669-686.
        • Arens, L., C.-H. Plumeyer, L. Theuvsen (2012). Determinants of the use of information: an empirical study of German pig farmers. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15(1), 51-72.
        • Arens, L., H.-H. Thulke, D. Eisinger, L. Theuvsen (2012). Administrative cooperation and disease control in cross-border pork production. Food Policy 37, 473-482.
        • Bakucs, L.Z., B. Brümmer, S. von Cramon-Taubadel, I. Ferto (2012). Wheat market integration between Hungary and Germany. Applied Economics Letters 19(8), 785-788.
        • Busse, S., B. Brümmer, R. Ihle (2012). Price formation in the German biodiesel supply chain: a Markov-switching vector error-correction modeling approach. Agricultural Economics 43(5), 545-560.
        • Esbjerg, L., B.B. Jensen, T. Bech-Larsen, M.D. de Barcellos, Y. Boztug, K.G. Grunert (2012). An integrative conceptual framework for analyzing customer satisfaction with shopping trip experiences in grocery retailing. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 19(4), 445-456.
        • Fischer, E., M. Qaim (2012). Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya. Food Security 4, 441-453.
        • Fischer, E., M. Qaim (2012). Linking smallholders to markets: determinants and impacts of farmer collective action in Kenya. World Development 40, 1255-1268.
        • Handschuch, C., M. Wollni, A.M. Corrêa Neto (2012). Knowledge and implementation of HACCP-based management systems among small-scale honey producers in Brazil. Journal on Chain and Network Science 12, 55-66.
        • Hess, S., S. von Cramon-Taubadel, U. Zschache, L. Theuvsen, D. Kleinschmit (2012). Explaining the puzzling persistence of restrictions on seasonal farm labour in Germany. European Review of Agricultural Economics 39(4), 707-728.
        • Heyder, M., T. Hollmann-Hespos, L. Theuvsen (2012). Investments in tracking and tracing systems in the food industry: a PLS analysis. Food Policy 37, 102-113.
        • Ihle, R., B. Brümmer, S.R. Thompson (2012). Structural change in European calf markets: decoupling and the blue tongue disease. European Review of Agricultural Economics 39(1), 157-180.
        • Ji, Y., X. Yu, F. Zhong (2012). Machinery investment decision and off-Farm employment in Rural China. China Economic Review 23, 71-80.
        • Kersting, S., M. Wollni (2012). New institutional arrangements and standard adoption: evidence from small-scale fruit and vegetable farmers in Thailand. Food Policy 37(4), 452-462.
        • Keser, C., I. Suleymanova, C. Wey (2012). Technology adoption in markets with network effects: theory and experimental evidence. Information Economics and Policy 24(3/4), 262-276.
        • Li Z., X. Yu, Y. Zeng Holst, R. (2012). Estimating transport costs and trade barriers in China: direct evidence from Chinese agricultural traders. China Economic Review 23, 1003-1010.
        • Padilla Bravo, C., A. Spiller, P. Villalobos (2012). Are organic growers satisfied with the certification system? A causal analysis of farmers' perceptions in Chile. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15(4), 115-136.
        • Rao, E.J.O., B. Brümmer, M. Qaim (2012). Farmer participation in supermarket channels, production technology, and efficiency: the case of vegetables in Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(4), 891-912.
        • Roemling, C., M. Qaim (2012). Obesity trends and determinants in Indonesia. Appetite 58, 1005-1013.
        • Stephens, E., E. Mabaya, S. von Cramon-Taubadel, C.B. Barrett (2012). Spatial price adjustment with and without trade. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 74(3), 453-469.
        • Wiesenfarth, M., T. Krivobokova, S. Klasen, S. Sperlich (2012). Direct simultaneous inference in additive models and its application to model undernutrition. Journal of the American Statistical Association 107(500), 1286-1296.
        • Wollni, M., B. Brümmer (2012). Productive efficiency of specialty and conventional coffee farmers in Costa Rica: accounting for technological heterogeneity and self-selection. Food Policy 37(1), 67-76.
        • Yu, X. (2012). Productivity, efficiency and structural problems in Chinese dairy farms. China Agricultural Economic Review 4, 168-175.


        2011


        • de Haen, H., S. Klasen, M. Qaim (2011). What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition. Food Policy 36(6), 760-769.
        • Deimel, M., L. Theuvsen (2011). Networking in meat production systems: the influence of cooperative structures on farmers' participation. International Journal on Food System Dynamics 2, 23-35.
        • Ecker, O., M. Qaim (2011). Analyzing nutritional impacts of policies: an empirical study for Malawi. World Development 39, 412-428.
        • Keser, C., C. Montmarquette (2011). Voluntary versus enforced team effort. Games 2(3), 277-301.
        • Heyder, M., C. Makus, L. Theuvsen (2011). Internationalization and firm performance in agribusiness: empirical evidence from European cooperatives. International Journal on Food System Dynamics 2(1), 77-93.
        • Mußhoff, O., M. Odening, W. Xu (2011). Management of climate risks in agriculture: will weather derivatives permeate? Applied Economics 43(7-9), 1067-1077.
        • Ogundari, K., B. Brümmer (2011). Technical efficiency of Nigerian agriculture: a meta-regression analysis. Outlook on Agriculture 40(2), 171-180.
        • Progrebna, G., D. Krantz, C. Schade, C. Keser (2011). Words versus actions as a means to influence cooperation in social dilemma situations. Theory and Decision 71, 473-502.
        • Rao, E.J.O., M. Qaim (2011). Supermarkets, farm household income, and poverty: insights from Kenya. World Development 39(5), 784-796.
        • Schipmann, C., M. Qaim (2011). Modern food retailers and traditional markets in developing countries: comparing quality, prices, and competition strategies in Thailand. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 33, 345-362.
        • Schipmann, C., M. Qaim (2011). Supply chain differentiation, contract agriculture, and farmers' marketing preferences: the case of sweet pepper in Thailand. Food Policy 36, 666-676.
        • Zhang, Y., B. Brümmer (2011). Productivity change and the effects of policy reform in China's agriculture since 1979. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 25(2), 131-150.
        • Zhang, Y., X. Wang, T. Glauben, B. Brümmer (2011). The impact of land reallocation on technical efficiency: evidence from China. Agricultural Economics 42(4), 495-507.