Jakob Vincent Latzko

* Usingen, Germany, October 2nd, 1992
Raised and grown up in Bremen, Germany

Current Position
Collaborative Research Center 990: Ecological and socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)

Subproject: “C07 - Determinants of land-use change and welfare impacts among rural farm and non-farm households”

Professional Experience

Nov 2020 – Apr 2020 DAAD - Carlo Schmid fellow at Research and Extension Unit (OINRD) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)| Rome, Italy
May 2020 – Nov 2020 Intern – Sector Project Agricultural Trade, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance and Global Project Strengthening of Farmer Based Organizations for Sustainable Rural Development at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH | Bonn, Germany
Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 Student assistant – Research Centre Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries | Göttingen, Germany
Oct 2017 – Dec 2019 Student assistant at Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development | Göttingen, Germany
Aug 2018 – Oct 2018 Field coordinator and research assistant for the C01 group of CRC 990 - EFForTS | Jambi, Indonesia
Sep 2017 – Dec 2019 Student assistant – Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development | Göttingen, Germany
Oct 2017 – Mar 2017 Teaching assistant at the course Current Research Topics in Heterodox Economics provided by the Chairs for Statistics and Econometrics | Göttingen, Germany
Aug 2017 – Oct 2017 Research assistant – Latin America Institute at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) | Hamburg, Germany
Jan 2017 – Apr 2017 – Intern at German-Nicaraguan Chamber of Industry and Commerce | Managua, Nicaragua
Sep 2016 – Nov 2016 – Logistics and communication intern at Delicatino GmbH | Bremen, Germany

Education

Apr 2017 – Nov 2020 M.Sc. with Major in Development Economics – Georg-August-Universität | Göttingen, Germany
Master thesis: Dynamic Efficiency and Resource Productivity of Oil Palm Smallholders in Jambi, Indonesia – a non-parametric analysis
Oct 2013 – Mar 2017 B.A. in Economics and Political Science – Georg-August-Universität | Göttingen, Germany
Exchange semester in 2015 at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) | Porto Alegre, Brazil
Bachelor thesis: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Poverty Reduction – the Bolsa Família program in Brazil
Oct 2011 – Sep 2013 B.A. in Political Science at University of Bremen, continued in Göttingen | Bremen, Germany.
Exchange semester in 2012 at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) | Córdoba, Argentina

Research Interests