Dr. Nicolas Gerber
- Land use and food security
- Sustainable use of natural resources
- Biodiversity
- Agriculture, land use, climate change
- Health
- Bangladesh
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- India
- Uganda
- Pakistan
ELD - The economics of land degradation; FoodSecure (www.foodsecure.eu) - Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security; PROIntensAfrica - Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa; WATSAN-AGRICULTURE - Guiding pro-poor investments in the nexus among domestic water quality and quantity, sanitation and hygiene, and agriculture from the bottom up; Analysis and Implementation of Measures to Reduce Price Volatility in National and International Markets for Improved Food Security in Developing Countries ” (Phase 2); TelePAtH - Tipping Points of Food Security in coupled social-ecological systems of West Africa under Climatic Hazards (Definition Phase); PRO-ACT - Fostering Smallholder Agriculture in Sierra Leone; STRIVE - Sustainable TRade and InnoVation transfer in the bioEconomy: From National Strategies to Global Sustainable Development Goals; NOURICITY - Partnerships for healthy diets and nutrition in urban African food systems – evidence and strategies
BiGS-DR interdisciplinary doctoral coursework ("Research proposal writing and development"); Lectures in "Development Policy and Analysis (ENT212, Institute for food and resource economics, Uni Bonn ); Advanced Environmental Economics (ENV 210, Master's program, Institute for food and resource economics, Uni Bonn); Angewandte Mikroökonomie (B-AE-Ö-03, Bachelor program, Institute for food and resource economics, Uni Bonn)
For a full list of publication visit my google scholar account
Associate Editor, Food Security (www.springer.com/journal/12571); Member, ZEF Research Ethics Committee (2013- ); Departmental representative to the Directorate (2017-2019 ); Principal Investigator (2018-), "NOURICITY - Partnerships for healthy diets and nutrition in urban African food systems – evidence and strategies"; ZEF Project Coordinator (2017-2020), "ProACT: Fostering Smallholder Agriculture in Sierra Leone"; ZEF Project Coordinator (2015-2017), "PROIntensAfrica: Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa"; ZEF Project Coordinator (2012-2017), "Exploring the future of global food and nutrition security", www.foodsecure.eu ; ZEF Project Coordinator (2015-2016), "Guiding pro-poor investments in the nexus among domestic water quality and quantity, sanitation and hygiene, and agriculture from the bottom up". ZEF Project Coordinator (2010-2011), "The Economics of Land Degradation".
Abdul Salam Lodhi, "Education, Child Labor, and Human Capital Formation in the Selected Urban and Rural of Settings of Pakistan" (graduated); Siti Rahyla Rhamat, "A global value chain and science policy analysis for sustainable palm oil industry in Malaysia" (graduated); Philipp Baumgartner, "The impact of large-scale land-acquisition in East Africa on poverty reduction and the rural economy: studies in Ethiopia and Uganda" (graduated); Elias Danyi Kuusaana, "Large-Scale Investment in Agriculture in West Africa - Implications for Land Markets and Smallholder Farmers" (graduated); Daniel Ayalew Mekonnen, "Aspirations, adoption of agricultural innovations, and household food and nutrition security: Case of Ethiopia" (graduated); Muhammed Abdella Usman, "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - Agriculture Nexus: Synergies and Trade-offs for a Better Nutrition and Health Outcome in Ethiopia" (graduated); Tekalign Gutu Sakketa, "Youth in agriculture, relative deprivation, expectations and their decisions in the context of economic change: future prospects of rural young people and Ethiopian agriculture"(graduated); Charles Yaw Okyere, "Water Quality in Multipurpose Water Systems, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Outcomes in Ghana"(graduated); Ruchi Vangani, "Exploring the links and dynamics therein for WATSAN and irrigation agriculture (AG-WATSAN Nexus) for a better nutrition and health outcome Gujarat, India"(graduated); Mohammad Monirul Hasan, "Investment in health and its relation with agriculture, water and sanitation (AG-WATSAN nexus) for the rural households in Bangladesh: synergies, trade-off, threshold level and way out"(graduated); Emmanuel Nshakira Rukundo, "Essays on Economics of Decentralization and Health in Uganda"(graduated); Isaac Bonuedi, "Enhancing Food and Nutrition Security through Cash Crop Promotion and Nutrition Education in Sierra Leone"; Makafui I. Dzudzor, "Food and nutrition (in)security: the dilemma of urban households in Ghana"
Associate lecturer, UNSW (2001-2006) Research Officer, NSW Depart. of Environment & Conservation (2005-2006)
PhD in Economics, UNSW, Australia (2006) MSc. in Environmental & Resource Economics, UCL, UK (1998) BSc. in Economics, UNIL, Switzerland (1997)
Environmental and resource economics
BMBF; BMZ; European Commission; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Wageningen Economics Research (Netherlands), Center of Excellence for Food Security - University of the Western Cape (South Africa), ISSER (U. Ghana) for the NOURICITY project; Welthungerhilfe for the PRO-ACT project; GIZ, IFPRI for the ELD project; AgroPariTtech, IFPRI, INRA, KUL, LEI-WUR, CCAP, EEA, EMBRAPA, IDDRI, IGIDR, IHEID, IIASA, JRC-IPTS, CIRAD, SAU, UROMA3, IAE, PBL for the FoodSecure project; WUR, FARA, CIRAD, CORAF/WECARD, UC Leuven, CCARDESA, Swedish U. of Ag. Sciences, CSIR-CRI Kumasi, ARC South Africa, IICT (Portugal), MTT (Finland), AFAAS, U. of Copenhagen, ASARECA and others for the PROIntensAfrica project; ISSER (U. Ghana), Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Ethiopian Economic Association and BRAC (Bangladesh) for the WATSAN project.
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Associated Researcher
Division/Group:
Economic and Technological Change
E-Mail:
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