Oil palm expansion among Indonesian smallholders - adoption, welfare implications and agronomic challenges

Education
  • Master of Science in Agricultural Sciences (2011)
    Study area: International and Tropical Agriculture; Georg-August Universität Göttingen
    Master thesis: "Fair Trade Coffee Cooperatives- Opportunities and Challenges for Rural Smallholders in Bolivia"
  • Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Sciences (2008)
    Study area: Crop Sciences; Georg-August Universität Göttingen
    Bachelor thesis: "Land reforms in Latin America: Distorted land markets and policy instruments- an evaluation of the Bolivian land reform"
Work /Research Experience
  • Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Lima, Peru
    Consultant (November 2011- February 2012)
    Project "Financial compensation for conservation of tropical forests"
  • Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Lima, Peru
    Internship (May - October 2011)
    Project "Financial compensation for conservation of tropical forests"
  • Indigenous smallholder cooperative MINGA; San Ignacio de Velasco, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
    Data collection for master thesis (November 2009 - May 2010)
    Thesis title: "Fair Trade Coffee Cooperatives- Opportunities and Challenges for Rural Smallholders in Bolivia"
    Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Indigenous smallholder cooperative MINGA; San Ignacio de Velasco, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
    Internship (February - May 2007)
  • Collaborative Research Center 552 STORMA, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
    Student research assistant (November 2008 - June 2009)
  • Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
    Student research assistant (May 2007- May 2008)