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  • 2020Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","jby049"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Review of Agricultural Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","24"],["dc.contributor.author","Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng"],["dc.contributor.author","Fongar, Andrea"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Jäckering, Lisa"],["dc.contributor.author","Mwololo, Henry"],["dc.contributor.author","Njuguna, Michael"],["dc.contributor.author","Wollni, Meike"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2019-07-31T09:50:27Z"],["dc.date.available","2019-07-31T09:50:27Z"],["dc.date.issued","2020"],["dc.description.abstract","We analyse how agricultural extension can be made more effective in terms of increasing farmers’ adoption of pro-nutrition technologies, such as biofortified crops. In a randomised controlled trial with farmers in Kenya, we implemented several extension treatments and evaluated their effects on the adoption of beans biofortified with iron and zinc. Difference-in-difference estimates show that intensive agricultural training can increase technology adoption considerably. Additional nutrition training helps farmers to better appreciate the technology’s nutritional benefits and thus further increases adoption. This study is among the first to analyse how improved extension designs can help to make smallholder farming more nutrition-sensitive."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1093/erae/jby049"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/16314"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/62234"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation.issn","0165-1587"],["dc.relation.issn","1464-3618"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"],["dc.title","How to make farming and agricultural extension more nutrition-sensitive: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Kenya"],["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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  • 2019Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","534"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Journal of Agricultural Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","555"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","71"],["dc.contributor.author","Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T18:26:36Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T18:26:36Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract Commercialisation of smallholder agriculture is important for rural economic growth. While previous studies have analysed effects of commercialisation on productivity and income, implications for farm household nutrition have received much less attention. We evaluate the effects of commercialisation on household food security and dietary quality with a special focus on calorie and micronutrient consumption. We also examine transmission channels by looking at the role of income, gender, and possible substitution effects between the consumption of own‐produced and purchased foods. The analysis uses survey data from farm households in Kenya and a control function approach. Generalised propensity scores are employed to estimate continuous treatment effects. Commercialisation significantly improves food security and dietary quality in terms of calorie, zinc and iron consumption. For vitamin A, effects are insignificant. Commercialisation contributes to higher incomes and increased nutrients from purchased foods, but it does not reduce the consumption of nutrients from own‐produced foods. Enhancing market access is important not only for rural economic growth, but also for making smallholder agriculture more nutrition‐sensitive."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/1477-9552.12359"],["dc.identifier.eissn","1477-9552"],["dc.identifier.issn","0021-857X"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/16771"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/76135"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC-ND 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"],["dc.title","Agricultural Commercialisation and Nutrition in Smallholder 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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  • 2019Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","657"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","5"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Agricultural Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","672"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","50"],["dc.contributor.author","Jäckering, Lisa"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Wollni, Meike"],["dc.date.accessioned","2019-12-04T11:43:12Z"],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-10-27T13:20:10Z"],["dc.date.available","2019-12-04T11:43:12Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-10-27T13:20:10Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","To date, little is known about how information flows within farmer groups and how extension interventions could be designed to deliver combined information on agriculture and nutrition. This study uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and characteristics of agricultural and nutrition information networks within farmer groups. Dyadic regressions are used to analyze the factors influencing link formation for the exchange of agricultural and nutrition information. In addition, we apply fixed‐effects models to identify the characteristics of central persons driving information exchange in the two networks, as well as potentially isolated persons, who are excluded from information networks within their farmer groups. Our results show that nutrition information is exchanged within farmer groups, although to a limited extent, and mostly flows through the existing agricultural information links. Thus, diffusing nutrition information through agricultural extension systems may be a viable approach. Our findings further suggest that group leaders and persons living in central locations are important drivers in the diffusion of information in both networks and may thus serve as suitable entry points for nutrition‐sensitive extension programs. However, we also identify important heterogeneities in network characteristics. In particular, nutrition information is less often exchanged between men and women, and some group members are completely isolated from nutrition information exchange within their farmer groups. We derive recommendations on taking these differences in network structure and characteristics into account when designing nutrition‐sensitive extension programs."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/agec.12516"],["dc.identifier.eissn","1574-0862"],["dc.identifier.issn","0169-5150"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/16836"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/91944"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Migrated from goescholar"],["dc.relation.eissn","1574-0862"],["dc.relation.issn","1574-0862"],["dc.relation.issn","0169-5150"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.access","openAccess"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"],["dc.subject","Africa; communication networks; dyadic regressions; farmer groups; Kenya; nutrition-sensitive agriculture"],["dc.subject.ddc","630"],["dc.title","Agriculture–nutrition linkages in farmers’ communication networks"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2019Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","BMC Public Health"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","19"],["dc.contributor.author","Fongar, Andrea"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T18:38:55Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T18:38:55Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1186/s12889-019-7882-y"],["dc.identifier.eissn","1471-2458"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/16701"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/77477"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"],["dc.title","Various forms of double burden of malnutrition problems exist in rural Kenya"],["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","21"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Global food security"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","29"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","17"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Stein, Alexander J."],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T14:24:22Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T14:24:22Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.gfs.2018.03.004"],["dc.identifier.issn","2211-9124"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/72227"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation.haserratum","/handle/2/72229"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.title","The global burden of chronic and hidden hunger: Trends and determinants"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2019Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","755"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","British Food Journal"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","770"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","121"],["dc.contributor.author","Wanyama, Rosina"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Jager, Matthias"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T18:26:08Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T18:26:08Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1108/BFJ-09-2018-0622"],["dc.identifier.issn","0007-070X"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/75962"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.title","Poor consumers’ preferences for nutritionally enhanced foods"],["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","391"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Public Health Nutrition"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","403"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","22"],["dc.contributor.author","Fongar, Andrea"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Aseta, Antony"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T15:22:22Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T15:22:22Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1017/S1368980018002756"],["dc.identifier.eissn","1475-2727"],["dc.identifier.issn","1368-9800"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/73377"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.title","How well do different dietary and nutrition assessment tools match? Insights from rural Kenya"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2019Journal Article Erratum
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","46"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Global food security"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","22"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Stein, Alexander J."],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T14:24:22Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T14:24:22Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.gfs.2019.09.001"],["dc.identifier.issn","2211-9124"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/72229"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.relation.iserratumof","/handle/2/72227"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.title","Corrigendum to ‘The global burden of chronic and hidden hunger: Trends and determinants’"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","erratum_ja"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2016Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","87"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Journal of Development Effectiveness"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","104"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","8"],["dc.contributor.author","Goedecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Waibel, Hermann"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T10:20:18Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T10:20:18Z"],["dc.date.issued","2016"],["dc.description.abstract","Based on a unique dataset for a rural Thai village, this article investigates the relationship between the definition of household and how rural development, poverty reduction and social protection programmes are targeted. In particular, this case study simulates the effects of altering the residency criterion of the household definition, that is, the duration of residence, on household welfare statistics. We show that identification errors in development programmes are frequently caused by alternative residency criteria. We conclude that applying a multi-location definition of household may lead to more accurate government budgeting in countries characterised by frequent migration."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1080/19439342.2015.1079793"],["dc.identifier.isi","000377987200006"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/41860"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd"],["dc.relation.issn","1943-9407"],["dc.relation.issn","1943-9342"],["dc.title","Does the underlying definition of household impair programme targeting?"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2019Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","5999"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","21"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Sustainability"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","11"],["dc.contributor.author","Wanyama, Rosina"],["dc.contributor.author","Gödecke, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Qaim, Matin"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T18:47:22Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T18:47:22Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.3390/su11215999"],["dc.identifier.eissn","2071-1050"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/16580"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/78741"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.publisher","MDPI"],["dc.relation.eissn","2071-1050"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"],["dc.title","Food Security and Dietary Quality in African Slums"],["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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