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  • 2020Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","102245"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Forest Policy and Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","118"],["dc.contributor.author","Chrisendo, Daniel"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Siregar, Hermanto"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-04-14T08:23:27Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-04-14T08:23:27Z"],["dc.date.issued","2020"],["dc.description.abstract","Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional crops – such as rubber and rice – and forest land. While environmental effects of the oil palm boom were analyzed in many studies, much less is known about social effects. Here, we analyze how oil palm cultivation by smallholder farmers is associated with nutrition through changing income and gender roles. The analysis uses panel data collected in Jambi Province, Sumatra, one of the hotspots of Indonesia's recent oil palm boom. Regression models show that oil palm cultivation is positively associated with nutrition and dietary quality. These associations are related to income gains that improve smallholders' access to nutritious foods from the market. Oil palm requires less labor than traditional crops, so a switch to oil palm could potentially free family labor for off-farm economic activities. We find that oil palm cultivation is positively associated with off-farm employment of male but not female household members, which may be related to unequal opportunities and social norms. Independent of oil palm cultivation, female off-farm employment is positively associated with nutrition, even after controlling for household income."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102245"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/80923"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-399"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","1389-9341"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC-ND 4.0"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in Indonesian farm households"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2018Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","312"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecological Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","321"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","147"],["dc.contributor.author","Kubitza, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Urban, Kira"],["dc.contributor.author","Alamsyah, Zulkifli"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T14:23:32Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T14:23:32Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.01.021"],["dc.identifier.issn","0921-8009"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/71958"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B05: Land use patterns in Jambi - quantification of structure, heterogeneity and changes of vegetation and land use as a basis for the explanation of ecological and socioeconomic functions"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Zentrum für Biodiversität und Nachhaltige Landnutzung"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Land Property Rights, Agricultural Intensification, and Deforestation in Indonesia"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","E6083"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","45"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","112"],["dc.contributor.author","Sibhatu, Kibrom T."],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:44:39Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:44:39Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","In their letter, Remans et al. (1) argue that our study (2) on the relationship between farm production diversity and household dietary diversity confirms earlier research but lacks discussion of scale and environmental aspects. Indeed, our findings are largely consistent with recent case studies from particular settings, but they challenge some widely held beliefs in the public and policy debate. Using data from various countries and diverse conditions, we were able to draw some broader conceptual and empirical lessons that go beyond case-study evidence."],["dc.format.extent","1"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1073/pnas.1519045112"],["dc.identifier.gro","3150301"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/7050"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","0027-8424"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Reply to Remans et al.: Strengthening markets is key to promote sustainable agricultural and food systems"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2019Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","339"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","04"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Environment and Development Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","360"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","24"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Darras, Kevin"],["dc.contributor.author","Grass, Ingo"],["dc.contributor.author","Mulyani, Yeni A."],["dc.contributor.author","Prawiradilaga, Dewi M."],["dc.contributor.author","Tscharntke, Teja"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T15:22:21Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T15:22:21Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","This study examines conservation effects of wildlife trade using demand and supply data from caged-bird markets in Sumatra, Indonesia. When consumers have a strong preference for species rarity, trade could result in wildlife overexploitation and species extinction. Results from a choice experiment show that buyers of caged birds indeed value species rarity. However, not all rare species are equally preferred. Species that are frequently traded lose their rarity value, even if rare in the wild. Analysis of time-series data collected from traders over a period of 20 months between 2013 and 2015 reveals an inelastic supply function for rare species, with market arrivals being insensitive to price changes. This may be due to a declining stock of rare species in the wild. Bird trade together with habitat loss can lead to extinction of a number of rare species in Indonesia. Several policy approaches on regulating caged-bird markets are discussed."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1017/S1355770X19000081"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/73366"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | B | B09: Oberirdische Biodiversitätsmuster und Prozesse in Regenwaldtransformations-Landschaften"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","1355-770X"],["dc.relation.issn","1469-4395"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Wildlife trade and consumer preference for species rarity: an examination of caged-bird markets in Sumatra"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","E5657"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","42"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","112"],["dc.contributor.author","Sibhatu, Kibrom T."],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:44:31Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:44:31Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","In his letter (1), Berti argues that our failure to find a relationship between farm production diversity (PD) and household dietary diversity (DD) may be due to the fact that PD and DD were measured using different scales. First, we would like to clarify that the main result of our article is not a zero relationship. What we find is a relatively small relationship between PD and DD (smaller than often assumed) that is significant in some but not in all cases (2). We also show that the effect of increasing PD is smaller than …"],["dc.format.extent","1"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1073/pnas.1517209112"],["dc.identifier.gro","3150287"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/7035"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","0027-8424"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Reply to Berti: Relationship between production and consumption diversity remains small also with modified diversity measures"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2018Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","828"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Land Use Policy"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","838"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","76"],["dc.contributor.author","Bou Dib, Jonida"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Alamsyah, Zulkifli"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T15:20:15Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T15:20:15Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.020"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/72594"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Zentrum für Biodiversität und Nachhaltige Landnutzung"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Land-use change and livelihoods of non-farm households: The role of income from employment in oil palm and rubber in rural Indonesia"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2018Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","107"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Human Ecology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","116"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","46"],["dc.contributor.author","Kubitza, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Alamsyah, Zulkifli"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T14:11:35Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T14:11:35Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1007/s10745-017-9965-7"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/71123"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Zentrum für Biodiversität und Nachhaltige Landnutzung"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","The Economics Behind an Ecological Crisis: Livelihood Effects of Oil Palm Expansion in Sumatra, Indonesia"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2021Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","106829"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Ecological Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","179"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Kubitza, Christoph"],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-04-14T08:30:32Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-04-14T08:30:32Z"],["dc.date.issued","2021"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106829"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/83273"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-399"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","0921-8009"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Impact of oil palm expansion on the provision of private and community goods in rural Indonesia"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2017Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","639"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","5"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Agricultural Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","653"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","48"],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh"],["dc.contributor.author","Euler, Michael"],["dc.contributor.author","Siregar, Hermanto"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-03-08T09:21:27Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-03-08T09:21:27Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.description.abstract","In this article, the impacts of oil palm adoption on livelihoods of smallholder farm households are analyzed. The study builds on survey data from Sumatra, Indonesia. Treatment-effects and endogenous switching regression models suggest that smallholder households benefit from oil palm adoption on average. Part of the benefit stems from the fact that oil palm requires less labor than rubber, the main alternative crop. This allows oil palm adopters to allocate more labor to off-farm activities and/or to expand their farmland. For households with a low land-to-labor ratio, rubber is typically a more lucrative crop than oil palm. Depending on various social and institutional factors, households’ access to land, labor, and capital varies, contributing to impact heterogeneity. Welfare gains associated with oil palm are more pronounced among households that have formal land titles and access to additional land to expand their farm size during the process of adoption."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/agec.12363"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/12885"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","GRO-Li-Import"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.doi","10.1111/agec.12363"],["dc.relation.issn","0169-5150"],["dc.relation.issn","0169-5150"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Differential livelihood impacts of oil palm expansion in Indonesia"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","10657"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","34"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","10662"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","112"],["dc.contributor.author","Sibhatu, Kibrom T."],["dc.contributor.author","Krishna, Vijesh V."],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:44:35Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:44:35Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Undernutrition and micronutrient malnutrition remain problems of significant magnitude in large parts of the developing world. Improved nutrition requires not only better access to food for poor population segments, but also higher dietary quality and diversity. Because many of the poor and undernourished people are smallholder farmers, diversifying production on these smallholder farms is widely perceived as a useful approach to improve dietary diversity. However, empirical evidence on the link between production and consumption diversity is scarce. Here, this issue is addressed with household-level data from Indonesia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Regression models show that on-farm production diversity is positively associated with dietary diversity in some situations, but not in all. When production diversity is already high, the association is not significant or even turns negative, because of foregone income benefits from specialization. Analysis of other factors reveals that market access has positive effects on dietary diversity, which are larger than those of increased production diversity. Market transactions also tend to reduce the role of farm diversity for household nutrition. These results suggest that increasing on-farm diversity is not always the most effective way to improve dietary diversity in smallholder households and should not be considered a goal in itself. Additional research is needed to better understand how agriculture and food systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive in particular situations."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1073/pnas.1510982112"],["dc.identifier.gro","3150299"],["dc.identifier.pmid","26261342"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/7048"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation","SFB 990: Ökologische und sozioökonomische Funktionen tropischer Tieflandregenwald-Transformationssysteme (Sumatra, Indonesien)"],["dc.relation","SFB 990 | C | C07: Einflussfaktoren von Landnutzungswandel und sozioökonomische Auswirkungen für ländliche Haushalte"],["dc.relation.issn","0027-8424"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.relation.workinggroup","RTG 2654: Sustainable Food Systems (Related Publications)"],["dc.subject","Africa; Asia; food security; nutrition-sensitive food systems; small-scale farmers"],["dc.subject.gro","sfb990_journalarticles"],["dc.title","Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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