Current PhD Candidates

 

Derebe Ermias Chefebo

Starting year: 2024

Country: Ethiopia

Regional context: Central Ethiopia

Research topics: Climate Smart Agricultural Technology, Food security.

Competencies: Quantitative and qualitative research, impact evaluation

E-mail: derebe.ermias.chefebo

Room: 125

 

Thanh Dam

Starting year: 2024

Country: Vietnam

Regional context: Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Research topics: Climate Smart Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Smallholder's welfare, Natural resource management.

Competencies: Quantitative and qualitative research, monitoring and evaluation

E-mail: ha.luong.thanh.dam

Room: 125

 

Cynthia Onyangore

Starting year: 2024

Country: Kenya

Regional context: Kenya

Research topics: True cost pricing, consumer perceptions, consumer preferences, fresh produce value chains.

Competencies: Food systems anaylsis, consumer behaviour, agricultural value chain development, multi-stakeholder partnerships, project management

E-mail: cynthia.onyangore

Room: 301

 

David Singaña Tapia

 

Starting year: 2023

Country: Ecuador

Regional context: Ecuador

Research topics: Food sovereignty, Family Farming, food trade flows.

Competencies: Quantitative and qualitative research, monitoring and evaluation.

E-mail: david.alejandro.singana.tapia

Room: 329

 

Sarah Robi Wambura

 

Starting year: 2023

Country: Kenya

Regional context: East Africa; Kenya

Research topics: Pastoral Rangeland Management; SDG Interlinkages; Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development.

Competencies: Agricultural and Applied Economics; Project Management; Research Methods.

E-mail: sarah.robi.wambura

Room: 132

 

Akonkwa Nyamuhirwa Dieu-Merci

 

Starting year: 2023

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Regional context: National

Research topics: Essays on Gender, Contract Farming, and Women’s Nutrition in the Center-south DR Congo.

Competencies: Agricultural Economics, Applied Econometrics, Development Economics.

E-mail: dieu-merci.akonkwa.nyamuhirwa

Room: 304

 

Charity Masole 

 

Starting year: 2022

Country: Botswana

Regional context: Nationally

Research topics: Assessment of the drought relief programme on the livestock sub-sector in Botswana: A process evaluation approach.

Competencies: Agricultural policy analysis, quantitative research, econometrics.

E-mail: gabanthate.charity.masole

Room: 329

 

Ifeoluwa Abulude 

 

Starting year: 2022

Country: Nigeria

Regional context: West Africa (South-West Nigeria)

Research topics: Food loss and waste amongst arable crop farmers in Nigeria.

Competencies: Agricultural extension education, rural development, programme design and evaluation.

E-mail: ifeoluwa.ayodeji.abulude

Room: 304

 

Rovshen Ishangulyyev

 

Starting year: 2022

Country: Turkmenistan

Regional context: Turkmenistan

Research topics: Analysis of Agricultural Reforms and Cotton Sector Restructuring in Turkmenistan: Application of the Turkmen Agricultural Sector Model (TASM).

Competencies: Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, Econometrics, Statistical analysis, Stata, R studio, International Agricultural Trade 

E-mail: rovshen.ishangulyyev

Room: 132

 

Akansha Mishra 

 

Starting year: 2022

Country: India

Regional context: India

Research topics: The role of citizen-consumers in making Pune, India a food smart city, challenges, barriers and opportunities.

Competencies: Food System Analysis, Food Safety, Consumer Behaviour, Qualitative Research, Knowledge Management and Reporting 

E-mail: akansha.mishra

Room: 301

 

Felix Ndayisaba 

 

Starting year: 2022

Country: Rwanda

Regional context: Nationwide

Research topics: Mushroom production and marketing potential for improved food security in Rwanda.

Competencies: Rural Development policy, sustainable agriculture, food security, poverty analysis, climate change & Geospatial analysis.

E-mail: Felix.Ndayisaba

Room: 357

 

Alexander Cano

 

Starting year: 2021

Country: Colombia

Regional context: Colombian coffee producing region.

Research topics: Change in agricultural land, climate change, and production economics.

Competencies: agricultural economics, environmental economics, agricultural production functions.

E-mail: alexander.cano

Room: 132

 

Manale Andargie Embiyale

 

Starting year: 2021

Country: Ethiopia

Regional context: Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

Research topics: Intra-household Gender Relation and Its Implication for Family Income in Rural Ethiopia.

Competencies: Gender and Family Studies, Rural Development and Family Science

E-mail: manale.embiyale

Room: 304

 

Andres Suarez

 

Starting year: 2021

Country: Colombia

Regional context: Colombian coffee axis, northern Caldas

Research topics: Ecosystem services valuation, large scale avocado production, social perceptions, environmental justice

Competencies: ecosystem services valuation, sustainable rural development

E-mail: andres.suarez-agudelo

Room: 301

 

Denis Soldera

 

Starting year: 2020

Country: Brazil

Regional context: Southern Brazil

Research topics: Socioeconomic metabolism and energy analysis of agroecosystems in Brazil

Competencies: rural development theories, agricultural economics, statistical data analysis, R, MS-Excel, Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM)

E-mail: denis.soldera

Room: 302

 

Evi Mariana

 

Starting year: 2020

Country: Indonesia

Regional context: South East Asia

Research topics: Smallholders' Integration in the Indonesian Coffee Value Chains

Competencies: Value Chains, Community Development, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation

E-mail: evi.mariana

Room: 125

 

Titilayo Oyeronke Akinwehinmi

 

Starting year: 2020

Country: Nigeria

Regional context: Sub-Saharan Africa

Research topics: Understanding Consumers’ Preference and Willingness to Pay for Biofortification Attributes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Rice and Cassava.

Competencies: Choice Modelling, Price transmission analysis, proficient in the use of SPSS, STATA, R, E-Views and MS Excel

E-mail: titilayo.akinwehinmi

Room: 301

 

 Alisher Kosimov

 

Starting year: 2019

Country: Tajikistan

Regional context: North Tajikistan

Research topics: Sustainable Livestock Sector Development in Tajikistan

Competencies: Inclusive market systems approach, vertical integration, value chain analysis, collective action studies, sustainable livestock and pasture management

E-mail: Alisher.Kosimov

Phone: +49 641 / 99 37310

Room: 301

 

Nixon Murathi Kiratu

 

Starting year: 2019

Country: Kenya

Regional context: East Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa

Research topics: Food and Nutrition Security, Water Resources, Irrigation, Markets

Competencies: Agricultural Policy Analysis; Marketing and Price Analysis; Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis (Stata and SPSS statistical software); Food Policy Analysis; Econometrics

E-mail: nixon.kiratu

Room: 329

 

Mustafa Nasiri