Curriculum Vitae

Professor Hartwig de Haen has studied at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen and at Michigan State University/USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics (1970). Until 1990 he was professor at the Institute for Agricultural Economics in Göttingen, where his research and teaching covered spatial economics, environment and development economics. During his academic career he was a member of research and policy advisory bodies, including the Council of Scientific Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. From 1990 until his retirement in 2005, de Haen was Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, where he was first head of FAO's Agriculture Department and from 1995 head of the Economic and Social Development Department. Since 2008 he has been member of the Supervisory Board (Präsidium) of Welthungerhilfe .Since 2011he has also been member of the Science Policy and Advisory Panel of the CGIAR research program "Policies, Institutions and Markets" (PIM). de Haen ist Mitglied der Académie d'Agriculture de France.
de Haen is member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France.

Selected Publications

de Haen, H., Dynamisches Regionalmodell der Produktion und Investition in der Landwirtschaft. (Dynamic regional model for production and investment in agriculture) "Agrarwirtschaft", SH 43, Hannover 1971
de Haen, H., I. Evers, O. Gans, W. Henrichsmeyer, Integrierte Entwicklungsplanung - Eine Bestandsaufnahme. (Integrated development planning - the state of the art.) Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, H. 228, Berlin 1975
de Haen, H., Theorien ländlicher Entwicklung.(Theories of rural development) In: P. v. Blanckenburg (ed.), Handbuch der Landwirtschaft und Ernährung in Entwicklungslãnder, Bd. 1, 2.Auf 1. Stuttgart 1982
de Haen, H., Economic Aspects of Policies to Control Nitrate Contamination from Agricultural Production. "European Review of Agricultural Economics", H. 4, 1982, pp. 443-465
von Braun, J. and H. de Haen, The Effects of Food Price and Subsidy Policies on Egyptian Agriculture. IFPRI Research Report No. 42, Washington 1983
de Haen, H., Interdependence of Prices, Production Intensity and Environmental Damage from Agricultural Production; "Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik", H. 3, 1985, 5. 199-219
de Haen, H., The Dual Role of Agricultural Price Policy - Production Incentive and Poverty Orientation - , in: E. Zurek (ed.), Integrated Rural Development, "Studien zur Integrierten Entwicklung", Bd. 15, Hamburg 1985, S. 113-130
Dams, T., H. de Haen, H. Kötter und H.-U. Thimm, Integrierte ländliche Entwick - Theorie, Konzepte, Erfahrungen, Programme, (Integrated rural development - theories, concepts, experiences, programmes) "Studien zur Integrierten Ländlichen Entwicklung", Bd. 1, Hamburg 1985
de Haen, H., G. Johnsom and S. Tangermann, (eds.), Agriculture and International Relations, London (McMillan) 1985
de Haen, H. und F. Isermeyer (Hrsg.), Ländlicher Raum in Abseits? Probleme und Potentiale strukturschwacher Regionen bei stagnierenden Agrareinkommen. (Rural areas in the offside? Problems and potentialities of marginal areas under stagnating incomes) Kiel 1990
de Haen, H. and A. Runge-Metzger, Improvements in Efficiency and Sustainability of Traditional Land Use Systems through Learning from Farmers' Practice. In: "Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture", Vol. 28, No.3/4 (1989), pp. 326-350
de Haen, H., Strukturelle Anpassung und landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung (Structural adjustment and agicultural development ). In: "Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues", Bd. 29 (199l), S. 241-251
von Braun, J., H. de Haen and J. Blanken, Commercialization of Agriculture under Population Pressure: Effects on Production, Consumption, and Nutrition in Rwanda, IFPRI Research Report Nr. 85, Washington DC 1991
de Haen, H. and P. Konandreas, Is Freer Agricultural Trade Harmful for National Food Security? The Case of Least Developed and Net Food Importing Developing Countries. In: "Agrarwirtschaft", Special Issue.1997
de Haen, H., N. Alexandratos and J. Bruinsma, Prospects for the World Food Situation on the Threshold of the 21st Century. In: OECD (ed), The Future of Food - Long-term Prospects for the Agro-Food sector. Paris 1998
de Haen, H., Haben wir eine Chance, das Ziel des Welternährungsgipfels "Halbierung der Zahl der Zahl der Unterernährten bis 2015" zu erreichen? In: Schriftenreihe der Forschungsgesellschaft für Agrarpolitik und Agrarsoziologie, Heft 316 (2000)
de Haen, H., K. Stamoulis, P. Shetty and P. Pingali, The World Food Economy in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges for International Co-operation. In: Development Policy Review (ODI), 2003, 21 (5)
de Haen, H. and J. Thomas, Putting the Right to Food into Practice. "entwicklung & ländlicher raum". Vol 40 (2006), No 1
de Haen, H., Die Kosten des Hungers, (The costs of hunger) In: M. Zeller (Hrsg.), Festschrift zum Wissenschaftlichen Kolloquium anlässlich der Verabschiedung von Franz Heidhues. Stuttgart 2007
de Haen, H., Climate Change and Rural Development. In: "entwicklung & ländlicher raum", Vol 41(2007), H.5.
de Haen, H. and G. Hemrich, The economics of natural disasters: implications and challenges for food security. In: "Agricultural Economics", 2007, vol. 37, issue s1, pages 31-45
de Haen, H., Biodiversität und Welternährung (Biodiversity and world nutrition), key note lecture at the 2008 joint meetings of the German Society for Agronomy and the German Society for Plant Breeding. In: Vorträge für Pflanzenzüchtung Nr. 78, Bonn 2009
de Haen, H. and A. MacMillan, Global Governance of Food Security. In: The International Journal for Rural Development (Rural 21), No. 5/2010
von Cramon-Taubadel, S., G. Anriquez, H. de Haen and O. Nivyevskiy, Investment in Developing Countries' Food and Agriculture: Assessing Agricultural Capital Stocks and their Impact on Productivity. In P. Conforti (ed.), Looking Ahead in World Food and Agriculture to 2050, Rome 2011
de Haen, H., S. Klasen and M. Qaim, What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition. In Food Policy, Vol. 36 (2011) pp. 760-769
de Haen, H., Wissenschaftliche Politikanalyse - Erwartungen, Erfahrungen und Empfeh-lungen der Nutzer auf internationaler Ebene (scientific policy analysis - expectations, experiences and recommendations of international users). In: Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus, Vol. 46 (2011), pp 9-14
FAO, IFAD, WFP, The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2012) (technical editors and co-authors: D. Dawe and H. de Haen)
de Haen, H., Politikfolgenabschätzung "Welternährung", ein Vorschlag zur Nachhaltigkeits-prüfung. (proposal for policy impact assessment "world nutrition"). In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) , Berlin, Vol. 81, No. 4 (2012)
de Haen, H and V. Réquillart Linkages between sustainable consumption and sustainable
production: some suggestions for foresight work. In Food Security, Vol.6. (2014) pp :87-100