Dr. Raoul Herrmann

Research programme: Transformation of Economic and Social Systems

Function: Researcher

Specialization: Economist/Agricultural Economist

Work areas:

Economic and social development
Agricultural and rural development
(Foreign) private investments in agriculture
Food security
Impact evaluation

Vita

Refereed Publications

Non-refereed Publications

Brüntrup, Michael / Katharina Becker / Martina Gaebler / Raoul Herrmann / Silja Ostermann / Jan Prothmann (2016)
Policies and institutions for assuring pro-poor rural development and food security through bioenergy production: case studies on bush-to-energy and Jatropha in Namibia
(Studies 90)
Hirschl, Bernd / Kristina Dietz / Thomas Vogelpohl / Elisa Dunkelberg / Maria Backhouse / Raoul Herrmann / Michael Brüntrup (Hrsg.) (2014)
Biokraftstoffe zwischen Sackgasse und Energiewende: sozial-ökologische und transnationale Perspektiven
München: Oekom Verl.
Herrmann, Raoul (2014)
Ländliche Armutsreduzierung durch großflächige Biokraftstoffinvestitionen? Eine Synthese von Fallstudien zu Zuckerrohr-basierten Investitionen in Malawi und Tansania
in: Bernd Hirschl / Kristina Dietz / Maria Backhouse / Elisa Dunkelberg / Raoul Herrmann / Thomas Vogelpohl / Michael Brüntrup (Hrsg.), Biokraftstoffe zwischen Sackgasse und Energiewende: sozial-ökologische und transnationale Perspektiven, München: Oekom Verl., 133-151
Herrmann, Raoul / Michael Brüntrup (2013)
Regionalentwicklung durch die Produktion von Biokraftstoff?
in: Ökologisches Wirtschaften 4/2013, 25-26
Brüntrup, Michael / Dieter Anders / Raoul Herrmann/Jutta Schmitz / Felix Kaup (2011)
Nouvelles pistes pour les biocarburants en Afrique
in: Rural 21 1/2011, 50-51
Brüntrup Michael / Raoul Herrmann (2010)
New paths for biofuels in Africa
in: Rural 21 44 (6), 17-20
Brüntrup, Michael / Raoul Herrmann (2009)
German Research Institute (DIE) conducted a study on bioenergy in Namibia
in: Biofuel Newsletter 18/2009, GTZ / PROBEC

Opinion Pieces

Brüntrup, Michael / Raoul Herrmann / Martina Gaebler (2010)
Large scale land acquisitions in developing countries: opportunities, threats and institutional challenges for rural development and food security
Paper presented at the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) Conference “Bioeconomy Governance: Policy, Environmental and Health Regulation, and Public Investments in Research", Ravello (Italy), 16. bis 18. Juni 2010
Herrmann, Raoul / Michael Brüntrup (2010)
Bioenergy value chains in Namibia: institutional challenges for rural development and food security
in: Ilka Darnhofer / Michaela Grötzer (eds.), Proceedings to 9th European IFSA Symposium: building sustainable rural futures; the added value of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty, 4-7 July, Vienna, 1461-1472
Brüntrup, Michael / Raoul Herrmann / Martina Gaebler (2009)
Bioenergy in Namibia: opportunities, threats and institutional challenges for rural development and food security
Paper prepared for the ICABR Conference on “The Emerging Bio-Economy”, Ravello, 17-20 June 2009

Projects

Contact

E-mail Raoul.Herrmann@remove-this.die-gdi.de
Phone +49 (0)228 94927-267
Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130

Highlight

Large-scale agricultural investments and smallholder welfare: a comparison of wage labor and outgrower channels in Tanzania
Herrmann, Raoul (2017)
in: World Development 90, 294-310

Highlight

Large-scale agro-industrial investments and rural poverty: evidence from sugarcane in Malawi
Herrmann, Raoul / Ulrike Grote (2015)
in: Journal of African Economies 24 (5), 645-676

Highlight

Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: assessing the effects on production and wellbeing
Biggeri, Mario / Francesco Burchi / Federico Ciani / Raoul Herrmann (2018)
in: Food Policy 79 (August), 77-91

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since 1/2018	German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems"
7/2009-12/2017	German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Department "Sustainable Economic and Social Development"
10/2011-03/2016	Leibniz University of Hannover Institute of World Trade and Environmental Economics PhD in Economics
2008-2009	German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation Field Study: Biofuel production in Namibia: Opportunities, Threats and the Institutional Environment for Rural Development and Food Security
2001-2007	University of Hohenheim Studies of economics, business administration and agricultural economics