Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung

Sara Yazdan Bakhsh

Research Interests:

  • Agricultural structural change using Agent based modelling
  • Productivity and efficiency analysis
  • Farm management and Risk coping mechanisms

    Current Position:
  • Research Associate and Ph.D. candidate

    • Education:

  • Since 2018: Ph.D. candidate at Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Goettingen
    Title of thesis: Analysis of the agricultural structural change under risk and firm heterogeneity using agent-based modelling in Limpopo region, South Africa

  • 10/2013- 01/2017: M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
    Title of M.Sc. thesis: Farm-level modeling of the adoption of new crops under climate change; a case study for the “Kraichgau” (South west of Germany)

  • 10/2008- 01/2012: M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, Major in Agricultural policy and Rural Development, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
    Title of M.Sc. thesis: Identification of factors influencing the production capacity of food and beverage industries, and devise appropriate strategies to improve their status (A case study for “Khorasan-Razavi” Province in Iran)

  • 10/2004-03/2008: B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran


    • Publications & Poster Presentations:

  • Yazdan Bakhsh, S., Shahnoushi Forushani, N., Daneshvar Kakhki, M., Kareshki, H., Dourandish, A. 2013.“Identification of factors influencing the production capacity of food and beverage industries”. Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and development, 21(81). 71-100
  • Yazdan Bakhsh, S., Shahnoushi Forushani, N. 2011.“SWOT – ANP Analysis of Food & Beverage Processing Industries in Khorasan-Razavi, Iran” presented as poster at 21st Annual IFAMA World Forum and Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Yazdan Bakhsh, S., Elahi, M. 2012. “Economic Evaluation of Sugar Industry From the Perspective of Macroeconomic Management” The Thirty-Fourth Annual Congress of Iranian sugar factories, Mashhad, Iran.

    • International Conferences:
  • 08/2018: International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), Vancouver, Canada
  • 06/2011: 21st Annual IFAMA World Forum and Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany

    • Work Experience:
  • Research associate (2018-present) in the SPACES-SALLnet Project “South African Limpopo Landscapes Network”. Sub-project of “Economic modeling and assessment of different scenarios and risk management options for agriculture in Limpopo region of South Africa”. Prof. Jan-Henning Feil, Georg-August-University of Goettingen
  • Student assistant (2014-2017) for the DFG Project FOR1695: Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change - Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale in Baden Würtemberg with MPMAS (Mathematical programming with multi agent system software), Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Research assistant (2012-2013) at Department of Agricultural Economics (Prof. Dr. Naser Shahnoushi) at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Iran