Anika TrebbinThünen Institute | vTI · Institute of Market Analysis
Anika Trebbin
PhD in Geography
agri-food geographies
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Introduction
I'm a human geographer working in the areas of rural and economic geography with a focus on agri-food studies. In my PhD thesis I examined what Producer Organizations in India can do to integrate smallholder farmers into modern retailers' value chains. As a PostDoc I examined the land grabbing phenomenon in the context of India' biofuel hype. I am currently participating in a research project that examines food losses at the farmer-retailer interface in Germany, Italy and Spain.
Additional affiliations
May 2015 - June 2021
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- I led a DFG-funded project on the land grabbing and the Jatropha hype in India.
August 2014 - April 2015
Position
- Analyst
Description
- As a consultant, I supported the university's Industry Engagement Office in linking interested companies and faculty for applied research funding.
February 2013 - December 2013
Position
- Analyst
Description
- As a consultant, I supported the university's Industry Engagement Office in linking interested companies and faculty for applied research funding.
Education
October 2009 - December 2012
October 2005 - June 2008
July 2005 - May 2008
Publications
Publications (16)
Since the 1980s power distribution in agrofood networks has changed in many countries in Africa, Latin-America, South Asia, and the postsocialist countries in Europe and Asia. In the course of economic liberalization, retail and wholesale trade as well as the food processing and agroscience sector were opened up to foreign investment. Within the fr...
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Producer companies can help smallholder farmers participate in emerging high-value markets, such as the export market and the unfolding modern retail sector in India. As elsewhere in the developing world, in India, small farmers’ livelihoods are being threatened due to the liberalization and privatization of Indian agriculture and the increasing in...
In the early 2000s, powerful narratives (re-)emerged around the food-fuel-land nexus, which, combined with the financial, food, and fuel crises of 2007-08, sparked new concerns about the finiteness of our resources and triggered, as well as partially justified, the then following land rush. Around the same time, a hyped debate also developed around...
The way we feed ourselves is the single largest cause for the overuse of the world‘s biocapacity. Yet, an estimated 30% of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. Retailers‘ specific quality requirements are an important cause for food loss, particularly in the produce segment. This loss occurs mainly pre harvest or in the value chain prior t...
A policy environment that builds on the emerging business models of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) that give producers control over value addition and improve their bargaining power could be married to the benefits to consumers of well-organized value chains operated by big retailers. Considering the most recent steps taken by the Indian gove...
Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory. In rural areas of industrialized societies, food prod...
A resurrected interest in agriculture has brought in its wake growing interest in smallholders in the global South by scholars, companies, governments and development agencies alike. While non-governmental organisations and development agencies see the potential to reduce poverty, companies look upon smallholder agriculture as a widely untapped res...
Wholesale cooperations for small supermarkets in rural areas – the example of Central Hesse, Germany.
Food retailing in the rural regions of Germany is undergoing dynamic changes. The
growth of average sales area and the consolidation of shops result in an increase of those areas where supermarkets can only be reached through long car drives. Here...
Food retailing in the rural regions of Germany is undergoing dynamic changes. The growth of average sales area and the consolidation of shops result in an increase of those areas where supermarkets can only be reached through long car drives. Here, food deserts might be developing. However, a new system of collaboration between regional wholesale c...
Since the official start of economic liberalization in 1991, transformations in India’s agro-food system were relatively slow. Only the more recent steps towards a further deregulation and liberalization, not only of the retail sector, but also of other sectors relevant to the trade with and the processing of food, and agriculture, have accelerated...
Indiens Lebensmittelhandel ist traditionell vielgliedrig und kleinteilig. Supermärkte, wie sie in Europa weit verbreitet sind, gibt es dort erst seit ein paar Jahren. Die zentrale Frage der Unterrichtseinheit ist, ob und wem Supermärkte in Indien Vorteile bringen. Mithilfe eines Wertequadrats lassen sich zunächst die betroffenen Akteure benennen un...
Die Art und Weise, wie Nahrung produziert, gehandelt und konsumiert wird, hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark verändert. Dominante Akteure sind dabei meist nicht die Produzenten selbst, sondern mächtige Unternehmen, die deren Güter weiterverarbeiten, verpacken, verkaufen und die Bauern mit externen Produktionsmitteln versorgen. Der vorliegend...
The global food system is a multi-faceted and highly interlinked network of production, processing, trading, and consumption where various processes of globalization can be studied, not only from an economic perspective. Over the past decades, agriculture in more and more countries has been increasingly integrated into circuits of industrial capita...
Questions
Question (1)
I am working on a project on biofuels investments worldwide. The results so far have yielded a (long) list of company names (sometimes including headquarters, year of foundation) that were/are supposedly active in one more more countries worldwide in the area of biofuels. The list has been compiled from various studies, reports, and other sources on the topic. Trying to track these companies via simple web search doesn't give us any results. Do you know of any register/database globally or in any country that captures information on companies incorporated in that country and what they are doing? Thank you very much
Projects
Projects (2)
Specific requirements of food retailers on fruit and vegetables are considered one of the causes of food losses in the early value chain. In this case study, we explored the interrelationships and loss volumes in the supply chain of a retail company.
The project examines potential cases of domestic land grabbing for jatropha cultivation in India, as well as looks at (waste) land (re)distribution for jatropha cultivation and changes on land access / land rights more generally.
