People of the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group

PhD Overview KTI

• The role of Positive Deviance in catalysing endogenous development processes in the highland Andes of northern
  Ecuador
  PhD Horacio Narvaez Mena; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, S. Sherwood, T. Crane (2-5-2011 - 2-5-2015)
• Multi-Level Governance of Panama Disease in Bananas
  PhD Jaye De La Cruz;supervisors: K. Jansen (9-11-2012 - 9-11-2016)
• Coordination in disease management: Panama disease in the Philippines
  PhD Marilou Montiflor; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, S. Vellema (1-4-2013 - 1-4-2017)
• The hidden role of banana in mixed farming and rural livelihoods: how to explain local responses to multi-level
  disease problems
  PhD Iman Nawireja; supervisors: S. Vellema, E. Wahyuni (15-8-2013 - 15-8-2017)
• Tracking the agricultural intervention of MasAgro (Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture) in Mexico
  PhD Tania Martinez Cruz; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, C. Almekinders (1-10-2013 - 1-10-2017)
• Resilience of dairy farming in East African Highlands
  PhD Jan van der Lee; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, L. Klerkx, S. Oosting (1-1-2013 - 1-1-2017)
• Prospects and Challenges in Improving Farmers’ Acces to Information
  PhD Zannatun Mukta; supervisor: C. Leeuwis (1-3-2014 - 1-3-2018)
• Vulnerability of Farm Households to Water Related Hazards in Jamalpur and Netrakona Districts
  PhD Sharmin Akter; supervisor: C. Leeuwis (1-3-2014 - 1-3-2018)
• Food security, governance and embedded coordination in value chains: understanding institutional viability in the
  Ugandan oilseed sector
  PhD Mirjam Schoonhoven; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, S. Vellema (1-1-2014 - 1-1-2017)
• Ready for the rains: What kind of socio-technical arrangements meet farmer demand for quality sweetpotato planting
  material in Sub-Saharan Africa?
  PhD Margaret Mcewan; supervisors: C. Almekinders, P. Richards, S. Vellema (1-4-2010 - 1-4-2014)
• Effectiveness of Multistakeholder Platforms in Delivering Development Outcomes, Study on Integrated Systems for Humidtropics
  PhD Murat Sartas; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, M. Schut, P. van Asten, L. Chiwona Karltun (1-4-2014 - 1-4-2018)
• Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa
  PhD Gareth Borman; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, C. Almekinders (1-6-2014 - 1-6-2018)
• Performace of Agricultural Innovation System in Tigray, Ethiopia
  PhD Mikinay Seifu; supervisors: C. Leeuwis, L. Klerkx, A. van Paassen (15-8-2013 - 15-8-2017)
• Scaling (up) in international development. An analysis of historical & philosophical roots and of its use in
  development policy & practice
  PhD Seerp Wigboldus; supervisors: H. Jochemsen, C. Leeuwis (1-1-2013 - 1-7-2016).
• Social-technical dimensions of potato late blight management in Ethiopia
  PhD Elias Assefa
• Hydro-climatic information services for agriculture in a digital age; improving seasonal farm management decision of rice producers in Ghana
  PhD Emmanuel Nyadzi
• Explorative design for bacterial wilt management in potato production systems in Ethiopia
  PhD Shiferaw Tafesse Gobena
• Framing and decision making in ticks’ ecology and tick borne disease control practices: a case study of Laikipia county, Kenya 
  Faith Mutavi