Studienprojekte
Sommersemester 2025
Study Project Announcement: "Agrifood Governance in Telecoupled Systems"
Topic: Agrifood Governance in Telecoupled Systems: Food Safety and Quality Standards Across Global Agrifood Chains (SoSe 2025)
Responsibles: Dr. Claudia Coral, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Mithöfer
Are you eager to understand how global agrifood value chains work and tackle real-world challenges in food safety, product authenticity and traceability? Join our innovative study project "Agrifood Governance in Telecoupled Systems" for Summer Semester 2025, where you'll dive deep into the complexities of international food safety standards and quality assurance across global value chains. Through hands-on case studies such as the European honey value chain, students from various Master's programs will analyze how food safety governance structures evolve across geographical and institutional scales, examining trade relationships and power asymmetries that affect quality assurance and develop recommendations for strengthening food safety governance mechanisms while supporting fair trade in agrifood value chains - detailed information about registration, schedule, and requirements can be found through the course link in AGNES and this link.
Abgeschlossene Studienprojekte
Sommersemester 2024
Topic: Digitalisation in Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains in Kenya
Responsibles: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Mithöfer, Prof. Dr. Susanne Huyskens-Keil, Dr. Caroline Hambloch, Dr. Thomas Aenis
Description: Master students from Germany, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda planned, implemented and reported an interdisciplinary student project. They conducted an interdisceplinary situation analysis for one or two case studies ("value chain stakeholder networks") in Kenya, with respect to their strengths and weaknesses. The focus lay on piloting ICT-based innovations along the value chain, starting at time of harvest, postharvest handling, processing, transport & marketing & consumer-relations. The students were involved in the field test of a Smartphone application (App) that is intended to increase the efficiency of the trading process and hence of the overall value chain. This app was developed as part of the InNuSens project, following the principles of the two-sided market theory. The students were involved in aspects of the design of the app and its functionalities, a field test and the development and answering of research questions related to the introduction of this app in East-Africa. Detailed and thorough attention should also be given to the perceived usefulness of the app, including the embedding of the use of the app in the social system represented by the actors along the value chain.