Ruiz Almeida, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)
Nowadays, around 690 million undernourished people worldwide, even though the world already produces enough food to feed more than the whole current population. This situation is far from diminishing ...
Avolio, Ciro (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
This dissertation will focus on the analysis of water and sanitation service delivery solutions in the context of peri-urban and rural areas. In particular, it will investigate if public-public partnerships ...
Clavera Ibáñez, Glòria (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
The road network service for mobility should respond to the challenges of sustainability and the new way of understanding the territory from a systemic, historical and topological perspective. In order ...
Díaz-Montenegro, José (Date of defense: 2019-10-08)
This thesis addresses the Ecuadorian cacao value chain through three interrelated chapters. Small producers linked to this chain face significant trade-offs between the two main available varieties for ...
Penagos, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
This thesis addresses sustainability transitions in the built environment, from buildings to the metropolitan scale, while ranging from low carbon development to the multidimensional challenges currently ...
Vallejo-Rojas, Virginia (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)
Taking into account the limitations of official approaches for addressing agri-food research, as well as their associated policies to tackle the problems of hunger and vulnerability of agri-food systems ...