Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Conference Room I
Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
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 Koondhar1, 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 Mishra1, 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
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4:00pm
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 Wang1, 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 Liebenehm1, 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

Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025
10:30am
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12:30pm
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 Kimsanova1, 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 Ding1,2, 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
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3:30pm
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
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6:30pm
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 Tynaliev1, 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 Ghvanidze1, 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 Beadle1, Fumi Okura2

1: University of Greenland; 2: Japanese International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)

Date: Friday, 20/June/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
B6 Organized Session: How Decentralization Helps Foster Economic Resilience of Rural Areas in Ukraine During the War?
Location: Conference Room I
Session Chair: Vasyl Kvartiuk, IAMO
 

Practical Experience of the APD Project in Enhancing the Competence of Pilot Community in the Context of Sustainable Agrarian and Rural Development

Mariya Yaroshko

German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue, Ukraine



Evaluating a capacity-building project for Ukrainian communities: An experimental approach

Vasyl Kvartiuk

IAMO, Germany



Benchmarking Local Governments Performance

Oleg Nivievskyi

Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine