Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Agrifood Chain Management

• Since 2023 Scientific Staff and Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Since 2020  Postdoctoral Researcher,  Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., PRO-PLANTEURS Recherche Project
• 2020-2023  Guest Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin, Agrifood Chain Management
• 2014 - 2019  Doctor in Agricultural Sciences (Dr. rer. agr.), Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Doctoral Certificate Program in Agricultural Economics, Structured training of doctoral students in the field of agricultural and food economics
• 2014–2018  Researcher – Ecuadorian National Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT)
• 2013-2014  Research Project: "Sustainable Land Management in Madagascar" (SULAMA 2011-2016). Financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
• 2012–2014  Master of Science (M.Sc.) Integrated Natural Resource Management, Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Master Thesis: “Integration of smallholder farmers into agribusiness value chains under restrictive markets: The case of the Littoral-Mahafaly plateau transect in south-western Madagascar.”

• Food Systems
• Resilience of global agrifood value chains
• Social justice in agrifood value chains
• Sustainability standard

Country Expertise

• South America, Ecuador, Madagascar, Tansania, Côte d'Ivoire

Projects

• Ecuadorian Banana Value Chain (2021)
• WATSON EU Horizon Project (2023 - 2026)

Selected Publications

• Coral, C., Plieninger, T., Sieber, S., & Graw, V. (2024). Extractivism triggering new forms of governance for the rights of nature: The case of Northwest Ecuador. Geoforum, 156, 104111. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104111

• Coral. C. y Cárcamo, R. (2024). Análisis de los principales riesgos de la crisis de fertilizantes en Ecuador: Prioridades de acción e investigación. Sociedades Rurales, Producción y Medio Ambiente, 24(47), 43-70. https://sociedadesruralesojs.xoc.uam.mx/index.php/srpma/article/view/512/472

• Coral, C., Carcamo, R., Ollendorf, F., Tokou, B. A., Yao, C. Y. A., Sieber, S., & Löhr, K. (2024). Elongating the causes of social vulnerability: Historical analysis of social sustainability dimensions in the Ivorian cocoa sector. World Development, 183, 106727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106727

• Claudia Coral, Dagmar Mithöfer: The backbone of agrifood value chain resilience: Innovation in the Ecuadorian banana value chain from a historical perspective. World Development Perspective Volume 29, March 2023, https.//doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2022.100476
• Arielle Sandrine Rafanomezantsoa, Claudia Coral (2022): Identifying nutrition-sensitive development options in Madagascar through a positive deviance approach. Food Security,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01339-z