09/2021-11/2024 Scientific Staff at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2019-2021 Value chain researcher, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Aris Tropics (ICRISAT), Lilongwe, Malawi
2015-2019 PhD in Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom. PhD Thesis Title: Palming the Grains: A Critical Investigation into the Political Economy of the Palm Oil Industries in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines
2013-2015 MCs in Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. MCs Thesis Title: Smallholders' Integration into the Value Chains - Exclusion of Inclusion? A Case Study of Mango Smallholders in the Philippines
Research Interests
Global value chains / global production networks, focus on agri-food sector
Governance and political economy; contract farming
Rural development, resilience, social justice
Food systems and nutrition
Sustainability standards and certification
Country Expertise
Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda
Selected Publications
Carcamo Mallen, R., Coral, C., Hambloch, C., & Macías, A. (2025). Dependencia de las importaciones de fertilizantes y ventaja comparativa revelada 2016-2023: Perspectivas para México y Ecuador. Sociedades Rurales, Producción y Medio Ambiente, 49(49), 71-96. https://sociedadesruralesojs.xoc.uam.mx/index.php/srpma/article/view/538
Conti, C., Hall, A., Orr, A., Hambloch, C., & Mausch, K. (2024). Complexity-aware principles for agri-food system interventions: Lessons from project encounters with complexity. Agricultural Systems, 220, 104080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104080
Hambloch, Caroline, Kai Mausch, Costanza Conti, and Andy Hall. (2022). “Simple Solutions for Complex Problems? What Is Missing in Agriculture for Nutrition Interventions.” Food Security, 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01324-6
Hambloch, C. (2022a). Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), 58–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12462
Vicol, M., Fold, N., Hambloch, C., Narayanan, S., & Pérez Niño, H. (2022). Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471
Mausch, K., Almekinders, C.J.M., Hambloch, C. & McEwan, M. A. (2021). Putting diverse farming households' preferences and needs at the centre of seed system development. Outlook on Agriculture, 50(4), 356–365. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270211054111
