Rural and Environmental History Group
The mission of the Rural and Environmental History Group (RHI) is to offer temporal depth to societal debates and social theories on sustainable and equitable welfare development.
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Branko Milanovic (CUNY) Capitalism, Alone
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Stephan Marette (INRA & AgroParisTech) Ecological and/or nutritional scores for food traffic-lights: Results of an online survey in France
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Ulf Liebe (University of Warwick) Non-monetary Incentives and Energy Conservation
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Sanne Muurling (Radboud University) Disparities in Death: Smallpox and Intra-Urban Social Inequalities, Amsterdam 1870-1872
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Pim de Zwart (WUR) Colonial Paradox: Sugar, Property Rights and Land Inequality in Java
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Travis Lybbert (UC Davis) Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture
Impact stories
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Unfair Trade? Globalisation, Institutions and Inequality in Southeast Asia, 1830-1940
How did trade and the operations of colonial powers affect economic development and social relations in a region? Pim de Zwart, researcher at the... -
Shifting patterns of African migration between 1800 and today
Seeking fortune or fleeing existential threat? Few topics are as politically charged and give rise to discussions as intense as migration. Together...
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Highlights
News
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2 fully funded PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (4 year terms), Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- While economic historians have made great efforts to investigate the origins and drivers of the Great Divergence between the global North and South,... -
Universiteit van Nederland; Bestaat een wereld zonder armoede?
- Kun jij je voorstellen dat je moet rondkomen van minder dan 2 euro per dag? Voor meer dan 700 miljoen mensen is dit werkelijkheid. In dit college... -
In memoriam Dr.Ir. Jan Bieleman (1949-2021)
- Wednesday June 9th 2021 Jan Bieleman died – 72 years old. He was an eminent member of the chair group Rural and Environmental History (RHI) for... -
New research and education assistant
- We would like to introduce our new research and education assistant, Helmi Moret.
Application self-funded PhD
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History Courses
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Economics Blog
Latest publications
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Georeferenced data of Christian mission stations, Ghana (1752–1932)
Data in Brief 38 (2021). - ISSN 2352-3409 -
Trends and factors associated with the nutritional status of adolescent girls in ghana : A secondary analysis of the 2003-2014 ghana demographic and health survey (gdhs) data
Public Health Nutrition (2021). - ISSN 1368-9800 -
African economies barely benefit from each other
Afrikaanse economieën profiteren amper van elkaar, Wageningen World nr. 3 p. 9-9, 2021-09-22, https://edepot.wur.nl/554194;African economies barely benefit from each other, Wageningen World nr. 3 p. 9-9, 2021-09-21, https://edepot.wur.nl/554192 -
Christianization without economic development : Evidence from missions in Ghana
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 190 (2021). - ISSN 0167-2681 - p. 573 - 596. -
Ewout Frankema, winnaar prestigieuze Vici-beurs, wil met wat lef de wereld een beetje beter maken
Ewout Frankema, winnaar prestigieuze Vici-beurs, wil met wat lef de wereld een beetje beter maken, Algemeen Dagblad, 2021-06-04, Bart Eulen, https://www.ad.nl/wageningen/ewout-frankema-winnaar-prestigieuze-vici-beurs-wil-met-wat-lef-de-wereld-een-beetje-beter-maken~a9965f94d/