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Edition 4/2024, 16 December 2024

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Events

IAMO Forum 2025 │ Photo: bardhok © AdobeStock

The IAMO Forum 2025 will be held from 18 to 20 June 2025 on “Rural Roots and Routes: Navigating Complexities of Quality of Life, Immobility, and Migration” in Halle (Saale), Germany. Abstracts and proposals for organized sessions can be submitted by 9 February 2025. // read more //

Expert panel at the GFFA 2024 in Berlin, Germany │ Photo: Peter Himsel © OA and IAMO

Within the framework of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), IAMO in cooperation with the German Agribusiness Alliance (GAA) organises a panel discussion. This event will take place on 17 January 2025 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am (CET), CityCube Berlin, Germany. // read more //

Event venue CityCube Berlin, Germany │ Photo: Peter Himsel © OA and IAMO

Within the framework of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), IAMO in cooperation with the Sino-German Agricultural Centre (DCZ) and the IAK Agrar Consulting organises a panel discussion. This event will take place on 17 January 2025 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm (CET), CityCube Berlin, Germany. // read more //

Projects news

Innovative data collection with eye tracking and skin response recording © IAMO

As part of the TRUSTFARM project, researchers Osama Ahmed, Borislav Rajković, and Ivan Đurić from IAMO, in collaboration with Cairo University, have conducted an innovative study on consumer preferences and willingness to pay for quinoa-based baked products. // read more //

Prof. Dr. Osama Naser El-Din Ahmed
Tel.: +49 345 2928-250
naser(at)iamo.de

Borislav Rajkovic
Tel.: +49 345 2928-251
rajkovic(at)iamo.de

Dr. Ivan Duric
Tel.: +49 345 2928-241
duric(at)iamo.de

Relic terrace systems in Wadi Karem, Israel │ Photo: Nitsan Ben Melech

In collaboration with Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, the TERRSOC project is investigating terraced agriculture and peasant decision-making in central Palestine during the Longue Duree. // read more //

Dr. Zhanli Sun
Tel.: +49 345 2928-331
sun(at)iamo.de

Dr. Franziska Appel
Tel.: +49 345 2928-117
appel(at)iamo.de

Review: conferences and workshops

Qiangyi Yu and Alfons Balmann at the 29th UN Climate Change Conference COP29

Alfons Balmann and Qiangyi Yu (visiting scientist at IAMO from CAAS) participated in COP29, the 29th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The COP is the world’s only multilateral decision-making forum on climate change that brings together almost every country annually. // read more //

Prof. Dr. Alfons Balmann
Tel.: +49 345 2928-300
balmann(at)iamo.de

Research associate Lena Kuhn moderated a panel discussion on the German-Chinese Agricultural Week © DCZ

From 21-23 October 2024, the 10th Sino-German Agricultural Week took place in Yancheng, China. More than 400 delegates from Germany and China as well as international experts exchanged research results, successful practices and methods of agroecology and biodiversity. // read more //

Dr. Lena Kuhn
Tel.: +49 345 2928-323
kuhn(at)iamo.de

Conference participants © WIUT

The conference Beyond Borders: Central Asia in the Face of Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Migration Challenges, organized by IAMO and the Center for Policy Research and Outreach (CPRO) of Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), took place on October 15-16, 2024, in Tashkent. // read more //

Dr. Nodir Djanibekov
Tel.: +49 345 2928-128
djanibekov(at)iamo.de

Dr. Kathleen Hermans
Tel.: +49 345 2928-142
khermans(at)iamo.de

Participants in a workshop at the autumn school © IAMO

From 7–11 October 2024, IAMO in collaboration with the Center for Policy Research and Outreach (CPRO) of the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) hosted an autumn school focused on the Econometric Analysis of Farmers’ Adoption Decisions of Sustainable Agricultural Practices. // read more //

Dr. Nodir Djanibekov
Tel.: +49 345 2928-128
djanibekov(at)iamo.de

Dr. Abdusame Tadjiev
Tel.: +49 345 2928-120
tadjiev(at)iamo.de

Tamar Sulukhia from ISET and IAMO director Thomas Glauben sign the Memorandum of Understanding © ISET

From 3 to 5 October 2024, IAMO and the ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) jointly organised an international conference on “Improving the Functioning of Agri-Food Value Chains in the South Caucasus Region” in Tbilisi, Georgia. // read more //

Dr. Miranda Svanidze
Tel.: +49 345 2928-571
svanidze(at)iamo.de

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Thomas Glauben
Tel.: +49 345 2928-200
glauben(at)iamo.de

Publications

© Russian Analytical Digest

In the new issue of the Russian Analytical Digest (RAD), IAMO scientists shed light on current developments and challenges in the Russian wheat trade. // read more //

PD Dr. habil. Linde Götz
Tel.: +49 345 2928-327
goetz(at)iamo.de

IAMO in the media

Florian Schierhorn │ Photo: Markus Scholz © IAMO

In an interview with Der Standard, IAMO scientist Florian Schierhorn discusses how climate change can alter agricultural yields in various regions of Russia and what the consequences of land conversion would be. (in German) // read more //

Dr. Florian Schierhorn
Tel.: +49 345 2928-335
schierhorn(at)iamo.de

News from IAMO institute

IAMO staff member Anke Blankenburg collects the TOTAL E-QUALITY award. │ Photo: Uwe Dettmar © TOTAL E-QUALITY Deutschland e. V.

On 14 November 2020, IAMO was honoured with the TOTAL E-QUALITY e. V. certificate for equal opportunities and diversity at an official ceremony in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. For the third time, IAMO has been granted this award. // read more //

Prof. Dr. Thomas Herzfeld
Tel.: +49 345 2928-100
herzfeld(at)iamo.de

Personalia

Kathleen Hermans was appointed as one of eight outstanding international female scientists as part of the Leibniz Women Professors Program. │ Photo: Markus Scholz © IAMO

At its 30th annual conference in Berlin, the Leibniz Association announced the funding of eight new female Leibniz professors, including IAMO scientist Kathleen Hermans, within the framework of the Leibniz Competition 2025. She is investigating how land degradation, climate change and social vulnerabilities influence migration. The professorship program promotes excellent female scientists and strengthens gender equality and cooperation with universities. Our warmest congratulations!

+++ In October 2024, IAMO scientist Antje Jantsch joined the World Wellbeing Panel (WWP) as an expert. The WWP is committed to promoting well-being and quality of life as the top priority for policymakers. +++ In 2024, a total of 9 dissertations supervised by IAMO were successfully completed. Since September, four researchers at IAMO have successfully defended their work: Rustam Rakhmetov presented his dissertation “Institutional quality and livestock production in post-Soviet countries: Three essays” on 2 September. Abdusame Tadjiev defended his dissertation on 23 September titled “Exploring the advantages and drivers of sustainable agricultural practices in Central Asia”. On 29 November, Atabek Umirbekov presented his work “Local and Global Determinants of Hydroclimatic Variability in Central Asia” in public. The final presentation was given by Lanjiao Wen, who successfully defended her dissertation “The transition to bioeconomy and its implications for sustainable development: The case of Germany” on 9 December. We congratulate everyone on their outstanding achievements! +++ Vladislav Valentinov has received multiple awards for his scientific work: His article “Sustainability and stakeholder theory: a processual perspective” (2023) received the Kybernetes Literati Award 2024 for “Outstanding Paper”. The article “Toward a digital transformation of the theory of the firm: Emergence as framework for organizational sustainability”, co-authored with Kristof van Assche and Frans Hermans, was awarded the Best Paper Award in 2023 by the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. In addition, Vladislav Valentinov is among the “World's Top 2% Scientists” for 2023 according to Stanford University. +++ Jerry Sun was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Land Use Science. Since 2022, Dr. Sun has also been an editor and member of the editorial board of Environmental Modelling & Software. +++ IAMO researcher Samuel Brea Martinez-Collado recently completed a research trip to the United States. He presented on contested market perceptions at the 2024 Markets & Society Conference and the annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society and collaborated with scholars from Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. +++ Finally, we would like to welcome new staff members at IAMO: Oysuluv Norboeva (doctoral researcher) as well as Xuchao Che and Yilin Cui (visiting doctoral researchers) in the Agricultural Policy department, and Tong Wang and Mengke Zhu (visiting doctoral researchers) in the Structural Change department. +++

Selected publications

; ; ; ; (2024) Resilience in technical efficiency and enabling factors: Insights from panel farm enterprise surveys in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Applied Economics: 1–23.

; ; (2024) The adoption of cotton combine services and farm technical efficiency: Evidence from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies: .

; ; (2024) An application of item response theory for agricultural sustainability measurement. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics: 1-29.

; ; (2024) The report on sustainable development and investments in the agricultural sector: The environmental capital perspective. Ukrainian Economic Journal (6): 59-68.

; ; ; ; (2025) Extreme weather, agricultural insurance and farmer's climate adaptation technologies adoption in China. Ecological Economics 228: .

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; (2024) Explaining the emergence of land-use frontiers. Royal Society Open Science 11 (7): .

; ; ; (2024) Targeting SDG7: Identifying heterogeneous energy dilemmas for socially disadvantaged groups in India using machine learning. Energy Economics 138: .

; (2024) The nature and effects of remittance scripts in rural Kosovo. Migration Studies 12 (4): .

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