Publications

Many tropical regions are experiencing a rapid growth of oil palm cultivation. In Indonesia, the world's leading palm oil producer, in addition to large companies, smallholder farmers are increasingly engaged in the oil palm sector. Smallholder oil palm cultivation may contribute to income gains and socio-economic development. However, land-use decisions by smallholders are not well understood. Without appropriate policies, negative social and environmental consequences can also occur. To improve the knowledge base, we use data about present and past land-use decisions from a survey of farm households in Sumatra. Employing duration models, we analyse the determinants and dynamics of oil palm adoption among smallholders. 

• The article in the Journal of Agricultural Economics

• Euler, M., S. Schwarze, H. Siregar and M. Qaim (2026) Oil Palm Expansion among Smallholder Farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia. In: Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 67, Issue 3, 658-676.

• M. Khulatt and Leppert, G. (2016), Health Systems Strengthening in German Development Cooperation: an Unfinished Business, DEval Policy Brief 3/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn

• Lücking, K., S. Bettighofer und S. Freund (2016), „Systemprüfung" – Ein Impulsgeber für die Evaluierungspraxis in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit? DEval Policy Brief 2/2016, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.

• H. Roxin, Schwedersky, T. and Polak, T. (2016), Development Workers - an Outdated Instrument for Development Cooperation?, DEval Policy Brief 1/2016, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn

Transnational thematic evaluation of the supporting of agricultural value chains with a focus on poverty reduction and food security. Case studies in Ghana and Burkina Faso.

• Kaplan, M., S. Bettighofer, S. Brüntrup-Seidemann and M. Noltze (2016), Agricultural Value Chains,

  German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.

Since summer 2015, the European Refugee Crisis has become one of the most prominent political topics on the continent, challenging not only individual European countries and governments but also the normative and political foundations of the European integration process. One relative broad consensus in the current debate within and between European countries is that the refugee crisis cannot be solved without improving the situation of those, who have desperately left their homes because of protracted violent conflict; no matter whether such improvement is within civil war torn countries or their neighbors. Consequently, the role of humanitarian aid and development cooperation as a way to help those fleeing from civil war has become not only a highly relevant foreign policy issue but also a core and sensitive domestic political issue throughout Europe.

• The article in Evaluation Connections

• Faust, J., H. Roxin (2016), Foreign Aid, the European Refugee Crisis and the Role of Evaluation - Beyond Micro Level Perspectives. In: Evaluation Connections, 42463.