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11:00am B1: Gender and Rural Well-Being Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: J Möllers , IAMO
A Happiness Paradox: Understanding the Impact of Migration on Women Left Behind in Pakistan
Mansoor Ahmed Koondhar 1 , Noshaba Aziz2
1: School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, China, People's Republic of;
2: School of Economics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo China
Double burden or burdenless? A mixed-method study on women’s empowerment in the face of large-scale male labor migration from rural Tajikistan
Mohru Mardonova , Isabel Lambrecht, Sarah Pechtl, Sharanya Rajiv
International Food Policy Research Institute
Empowering Women and Reclaiming Roots: Women’s Regenerative Farming Creates Livelihoods and Counters Migration
Kritika Mishra 1 , Farhat Naz2
1: PhD Research Scholar, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India;
2: Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
2:00pm B2: Data, Models and Indicators for Well-Being and Mobility Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: Johnson Kansiime , IAMO
Revitalising Well-being: A Novel Approach with the Index of Well-being (IoW)
Johnson Kansiime , Antje Jantsch
IAMO, Germany
Analysing countries ability to transform inputs into well-being using WHR data
Nikolaos Rigas , Francesco Sarracino
STATEC Research, Luxembourg
The Success of Microfinance and the Moderating Effect of Communists: Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Rural China
Yunzhou Wang 1 , Jing You1,2 , Qianyu Zhu1 , Jiajuan Zhi1
1: Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of;
2: University of Cambridge, UK
Gendered Dimensions of Environmental Change-Induced Migration in Rural Ghana
Issah Baddianaah2 , Benedicta Frimpong3 , Sabine Liebenehm 1 , Alirah Weyori4
1: University of Saskatchewan, Canada;
2: Tubman University, Harper City, Maryland County, Liberia;
3: CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Ghana;
4: World Food Programme
10:30am B3: Shocks and Migration Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: Arbnora Shala , Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Migration patterns: The complex roles of poverty and weather extremes
Barchynai Kimsanova 1 , Thomas Herzfeld1,2 , Atabek Umirbekov1 , Hermans Kathleen1 , Daniel Muller1,3,4 , Nodir Djanibekov1
1: IAMO, Germany;
2: Martin-Luther- Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany;
3: Humbold-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
4: Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
County industrial structure change and rural intergenerational education mobility in China
Yifei Ding 1,2 , Gucheng Li2
1: IAMO, Germany;
2: Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Forced displacement of the population of Ukraine to rural areas: challenges of adaptation and prospects in the context of a military crisis
Iuliia Vasylivna Samoilyk
Poltava State Agrarian University, Ukraine
2:00pm B4: Climate Risks and Migration Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: Tom Dufhues , IAMO
Understanding Migration through Climate Risk Perceptions
Kathleen Hermans , Setenay Kizilkaya
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies: Leibniz-Institut fur Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsokonomien, Germany
Thirsty lands, displaced lives: The limits of migration as adaptation in the context of environmental and climate (im)mobilities at Lake Urmia, Iran
Sebastian Fernand Transiskus , Matthias Schmidt, Monir Gholamzadeh Bazarbash
University of Augsburg, Germany
Climate Change and Migration Intentions in European Temperate Zones: The Role of Objective and Perceived Climate Stressors
Lena Kuhn , Antje Jantsch
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany
5:00pm B5: Institutions, Preferences, and Economic Choices Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: Zafar Kurbanov , IAMO (Halle, Germany)
Farming under Scarcity: How irrigation water shortages relate to risk and time preferences of smallholders in Kyrgyzstan
Marlen Tynaliev 1 , Abdusame Tadjiev1,2 , Nodir Djanibekov1 , Alexis Villacis3 , Thomas Herzfeld1
1: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO);
2: Samarkand Agroinnovations and Research University, Uzbekistan;
3: Ohio State University
Decoding the Label: How Design and Language Shape Georgian Wine Preferences Across Generations
Sophie Ghvanidze 1 , Miranda Svanidze2
1: Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany;
2: IAMO, Germany
Socioeconomic conditions in Cambodian rice farming and their role in predicting farm succession: A case study in the Damnak Ampil irrigation scheme
Brian Beadle 1 , Fumi Okura2
1: University of Greenland;
2: Japanese International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)
