Rural and Environmental History Group

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  Isabelle Bonjean (KU Leuven, Belgium): Who are the loss-averse farmers? 13 November 2018 - Seminar - Farmers have to take decisions in a highly risky world. Their behavior under risk typically results from the combination of the level of their risk...
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  Bjorn van Campenhout (KU Leuven, IFPRI): Designing for effectiveness and inclusivity in video-enable agricultural extension 20 November 2018 - Seminar - In agricultural extension programs, seemingly small design attributes — the way the information is delivered, who delivers the information, or...
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  José Zofio (U Autonoma de Madrid and U Rotterdam): Introducing Economic Inefficiency Measurement with Bad Outputs 27 November 2018 - Seminar - In this study we introduce the measurement of environmental inefficiency from an economic perspective that integrates, in addition to marketed good...
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  Daniel Slunge (U Göteborg): Market-based instruments in chemicals management, a good idea or not? 27 November 2018 04 December 2018 - Seminar - Many chemical substances cause significant diffuse emissions when emitted over wide areas at individually low concentrations. These emissions are...
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  An anatomy of colonial states and fiscal regimes in Portuguese Africa: Long-term transformations in Angola and Mozambique, 1850s-1970s K (Kleoniki) Alexopoulou Giannakitsa MSc
  04 December 2018 - PhD defence

Highlights

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  Economics Research Covered by The Economist
• PhD project on Food Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-present
• PhD project on Intra-Asian Migration, 1800-2000
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  Guest researcher at RHI group: Oriol Sabaté Domingo Oriol Sabaté received his PhD in Economic History from the University of Barcelona in 2015. His thesis focused on the long-term evolution of...
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  RHI receives Education Innovation Subsidy 2018 25 May 2018 - For the academic year 2018-2019 RHI has received a grant for an education innovation project for the course RHI-10506:...
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  Thirsk-Feinstein Prize won by Corinne Boter 17 April 2018 - Last Saturday it was announced that our former colleague Corinne Boter (now a postdoc at the Economic and Social History Group of...
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  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk receives ERC Consolidator Grant 4 December 2017 - The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant of 2 million euros to former WUR-employee prof. dr. Elise van...
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  “Van Winterprijs 2017” for Janny Bloembergen-Lukkes 9 November 2017 - Janny Bloembergen-Lukkes will receive the Professor van Winterprijs 2017 on November 9, 2017 for her book Paradoxale modernisering:...
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  Cum Laude for thesis on colonial Uganda On Wednesday September 20, Michiel de Haas of the Rural and Environmental History group defended his thesis Rural livelihoods and agricultural...
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  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk appointed as special professor at RU Nijmegen As of 15 June 2017, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (RHI) has been appointed as special chair ‘Comparative History of Households, Gender and...