
Stephanie E. DomptailUniversity of Giessen | JLU · Institute of Agricultural Policy and Market Research
Stephanie E. Domptail
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September 2010 - present
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In contrast to a large body of literature linking agroecology to food security through sustainable agronomic practices, research on how agroecology enhances smallholder farmers’ access to productive resources, yet necessary for food security and nutrition, is sparse in Africa. Literature does not consider the fact that agroecology practices are oft...
In Colombia, oil palm is an important economic sector of the agroindustry. One of its main challenges is to simultaneously ensure palm oil production growth and maintain and improve the local environment and a sustainable agricultural landscape. Thus, we conducted a landscape analysis on an exemplary palm oil plantation to assess the landscape stru...
The chapter opens up key dichotomies characterizing the Western cartesian worldview and modernity to shed light on the consequences of an understanding of the world characterized by binaries and to open up the doors towards a new space of flourishing. We understand decolonization efforts in economic thinking and science as attempts to destabilize t...
Degrowth Decolonization and Development offers a collection of seven original case study analyses, followed by a synopsis of concepts contributing to decolonize development by shaking the hegemony of the Western paradigm. The participating researchers met when presenting their work in Decolonization and Degrowth panels within two International Degr...
In Western Europe, farmers are embedded in a secular culture, characterized by a worldview where (hu)mans and nature are separated and opposed, capitalism rules exchanges, nature is rationally exploited, and the process of food production was long ignored. This worldview is hegemon and questioned as colonizing. Agroecological approaches and practic...
The study aimed to establish the effect of coffee cropping systems and soil management on the nutrient balances at different elevations in the Mt. Elgon Region (MER) in Uganda to inform sustainable management efforts in the area. Treatments included altitude at 3 levels (1000-1310, 1311-1800, 1801-2300 meters above sea level); five coffee cropping...
This paper investigates how research documented and framed the agroecology-food and nutrition security (FNS)-nexus in Africa. Our first objective is to reveal the links research in Africa has established between agroecology and FNS. Our literature review of empirical studies located in African countries, published between 1996 to 2020, consolidates...
People's preferences influence national priorities for economic development and ecological integrity. Often policy makers and development agents base their actions on unclear assumptions about such preferences. This paper explores rural citizens' preferences for economic and ecological development outcomes and how they differ within and between com...
Despite the importance of coffee and banana as key income and food sources for millions of farmers inhabiting the densely populated East African highlands as well as and urban dwellers, there are declining yields. One of the causes for this decline is increased soil degradation that has led to recent conversions of more forest land into crop land i...
Agroecology is materializing as an alternative set of practices in a context where green
revolution capital-intensive agricultural systems are hogging land resources through land
restructuration, subventions and technology to the benefit of the corporate regime. We argue that the claim that land restructuration is a form of land grabbing provides...
Unravelling how earthworms and ants are deterministically structured by abiotic and biotic factors is of utmost relevance in fostering favourable environments for their increased abundance and action, more so in the increasingly degraded agricultural ecosystems of mountainous regions in sub-Saharan Africa. The Mount Elgon region (MER) of Uganda is...
Ecosystems and the services they provide (Ecosystem services – ESS) play a central role in the livelihoods of the riparian populations of the Okavango River Basin (ORB). Tourism operators -both local and international-, as well as many different water users, including riparian and external cities for drinking water, mines and the rising agro-indust...
Durante um período de cinco anos (setembro de 2010 a agosto de 2015), 140 pesquisadores
de oito países, 23 universidades e instituições de pesquisa adicionais, principalmente de
Angola, Botsuana, Namíbia e Alemanha, realizaram o projeto de pesquisa transdisciplinar
‚The Future Okavango‘ (TFO) dentro de toda a Bacia do Okavango-Cubango. Este livro
é...
Durante um período de cinco anos (setembro de 2010 a agosto de 2015), 140 pesquisadores
de oito países, 23 universidades e instituições de pesquisa adicionais, principalmente de
Angola, Botsuana, Namíbia e Alemanha, realizaram o projeto de pesquisa transdisciplinar
‚The Future Okavango‘ (TFO) dentro de toda a Bacia do Okavango-Cubango. Este livro
é...
The Okavango Basin encompasses a wide range of ecosystems and, corresponding to its extension across Angola, Botswana and Namibia, a multitude of communities with diverse socio-economic co: Households in the rural and urban Kavango region of Namibia experience the effects of rapid global economic change, mostly indicated by the emergence of new mar...
Trade-off analysis can be defined as an approach to natural resource management that incorporates multiple objectives for the management of a given area (and its resources) within a decision framework. The analysis of trade-off or synergetic relationships among multiple objectives for a given system is essential for the implementation of interdisci...
Growing symptoms of the mismanagement of socio-ecological systems (SESs) show that the
long-term existence of these systems is threatened. SES management improvement is the
aim of many policy measures. But how successful are these various simultaneous policy
measures in achieving the sustainable management of SESs? A framework for analysing policy...
Due to a special mixture of influencing factors and basic conditions, livelihood strategies in the village of Seronga are highly diversified. The remote location of Seronga at the northern edge of the Okavango Delta distances the population from urban centers and modernity. Therefore,
agricultural production and livestock keeping remain the main ba...
This paper presents a bio-economic modelling technique which provides insight on the probable impacts on the management of natural resources of a land tax as an example of policy instrument. The paper is based on a case study carried out in arid natural rangelands of Namibia, where an agricultural land tax has been implemented in 2006. Responding t...
In order to share experiences and discuss approaches for the implementation of PES as instruments for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem protection, a workshop titled "Payments for Ecosystem Service – Towards an Implementation Strategy", was organised by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), together with the Secretariat of...
This paper presents a bio-economic optimization modeling approach for the simulation of land use decision making by farmers faced with climatic uncertainties. The approach is applied to the study of land use strategies on commercial ranches in Namibia. First, we compare two models differing in their structure: the first one is an inter-temporal opt...
Summary: The chapter presents an ecological-economic analysis of pastoral systems in the form of an interdisciplinary study on livelihoods, landuse practices, and related environmental impacts. The study focuses on three different pastoral systems of the Namibian Nama Karoo that differ in terms of climate, and cultural and socio-economic background...
The need to implement sustainable resource management regimes for semi-arid and arid rangelands is acute as non-adapted grazing strategies lead to irreversible environmental problems such as desertification and associated loss of economic support to society. In these sensitive ecosystems, traditional sectoral, disciplinary approaches will not work...
The poster presents the diversity in veld types observed in the highly environmental heterogeneous region of Keetmanshoop. Data concerning farmer perception of veld types and data on plant species composition in relation to different soil types were collected. One crucial question in our approach is to identify relationships between the resource he...
Sustainably intensifying rural agricultural systems is now a development goal that has gained momentum in the recent decades due to a rapidly growing population and feeds directly into the Sustainable Development Goals of ending poverty and hunger. By 2050, the world will be inhabited by 10 billion people, 68% of whom will be city dwellers which wi...