Research Projects

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Short title	Title
	A
AG-ORGA&POLICY	Agricultural Organisation and Farm Policy [AG-ORGA&POLICY]
APD Westbalkan	Agricultural Policy Dialogue Germany - Western Balkans (Agrarpolitischer Dialog Westbalkan) [APD Westbalkan]
MDA-Impact	Agricultural Policy Impact Assessment for the Republic of Moldova [MDA-Impact]
AGRIWANET	Agricultural Restructuring, Water Scarcity and the Adaptation to Climate Change in Central Asia: A Five-Country Study [AGRIWANET]
	B
UzFarmBarometer	Better understanding of the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in Uzbekistan [UzFarmBarometer]
ENHANCE	Building an Excellency Network for Heightening Agricultural Economic Research and Education in Romania [ENHANCE]
	C
CAWAMNET	Central Asian Water Conflict and Migration Network [CAWAMNET]
AG-ChangeRural	Changes in rural areas [AG-ChangeRural]
	Commercialization of smallholder farms in Kosovo
Alfa Agrar	Competence Management to Promote Skilled Foreign Workers in Agriculture [Alfa Agrar]
	Cooperation and alternative food chains as marketing opportunities for smallholder farms in Southeastern Europe
	Cropland use and land tenure rights in transition countries
	E
	Economic analysis of wheat trade in Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus: three Essays
UzAgrInLab	Establishment of interdisciplinary lab on Agricultural Innovations and Resources [UzAgrInLab]
AGRICISTRADE	Exploring the potential for agricultural and biomass trade in the Commonwealth of Independent States [AGRICISTRADE]
	F
	Factor productivity in EU agriculture
	From Social to Intangible Remittances: A Conceptual Recalibration with Empirical Evidence from Southeast Europe
	G
GERUKA	Global Food Security and the Grain Markets in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan [GERUKA]
	I
AGRICHANGE	Institutional change in land and labour relations of Central Asia’s irrigated agriculture [AGRICHANGE]
	Institutional quality of meat markets in post-Soviet countries
AG-InstitutionsNaturalResources	Institutions and Natural resources [AG-InstitutionsNaturalResources]
	N
Internal migration in Kazakhstan	New Institutionalism and Bayesian Networks: Establishing an analytical framework to model migration decision making in rural Kazakhstan [Internal migration in Kazakhstan]
	P
Social comparisons and inequality	Perceptions of inequality through social comparisons and transference on subjective wellbeing: a micro perspective on reference groups [Social comparisons and inequality]
	Philipp Schwartz Fellowships supported by funds from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
FEDAGRIPOL	Political economy of agricultural policies in federal systems [FEDAGRIPOL]
	R
EUkrBenefits	Reaping the Benefits and Minimising the Risks: Integration of the Ukrainian Agricultural and Food Sectors into the European Union [EUkrBenefits]
ANICANET	Revitalising animal husbandry in Central Asia: A five-country analysis [ANICANET]
RuWell	Rural well-being in transition: multidimensional drivers and effects on (im)mobility [RuWell]
	S
SCARLED	Structural Change in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods [SCARLED]
SUSADICA	Structured doctoral programme on Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia [SUSADICA]
Short Value Chains Western Balkans	Study of best practices and potential of participation of the smallholders in the short value chains in the Western Balkans region and Turkey (Praxis und Potential der Nutzung von kurzen Vertriebsketten in der Landwirtschaft für Kleinbauern im Westbalkan und der Türkei) [Short Value Chains Western Balkans]
	Study on Rural Migration in Kosovo
	T
	Tapping two sources: Farmers’ conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water in North West China
MATRACC	The Global Food Crisis – Impact on Wheat Markets and Trade in the Caucasus and Central Asia and the Role of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) [MATRACC]
SARS-CAC	The impact of COVID-19 on agriculture, food and rural areas in Central Asia and Caucasus countries [SARS-CAC]
	The impact of migration and remittances on agriculture and rural development in Kosovo and Albania
	The land and water nexus in a transition context: the case of Tajikistan
Staying rural and the status quo bias	The role of the status quo bias in the perpetuation of farm work and remaining in situ – exemplified with data from Southeast Europe [Staying rural and the status quo bias]
	Three essays on agricultural policy in Kosovo
	Too much but not enough: Issues of water management in Albania
TraFFF	Transnational Families, Farms and Firms: Migrant Entrepreneurs in Kosovo and Serbia from the 1960s to today [TraFFF]
	U
	Understanding farmers’ compliance and non-compliance of food safety rules in China
	Understanding the behavioral factors affecting adoption of sustainable agriculture practices by farmers in Kyrgyzstan
UzAgRe	Uzbekistan Cotton Sector Analysis: Promoting Competitiveness, Efficiency and Sustainability [UzAgRe]
	W
AWAGO	Water governance and peacebuilding in Afghanistan [AWAGO]
	Working practices in animal farming – An ethnographic farm case study