The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) shapes the agri-food sector of the European Union (EU) by mainly regulating the distribution of financial support to agricultural producers. Based on the Treaty of Rome (1957), one of the CAP's objectives is to "ensure a fair living standard for farm-ers" by...

While economic growth in many low- and middle-income (LMICs) has led to the reduction of poverty and undernutrition, some of these LMICs are undergoing a simultaneous increase in overnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. Urbanization is one of the widely attributed factors for this nutrition...

Seit nahezu drei Jahrzenten befinden sich die Zentralasiatischen Länder in einem fortlaufenden Transformationsprozess. Die Motivation dieser Dissertation leitet sich aus den unterschiedlichen Reaktionen ländlicher Gesellschaften auf den Agrarwandel ab. Diese weisen gemeinsame institutionelle...