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 ...
Dogbe, Wisdom (Date of defense: 2019-10-15)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of climate and health policies on personal well-being and the environment or both as well as how household behaviour influences the sustainability ...
Diaz Ruiz, Raquel (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
The visibility of the food waste volume along the food supply chain during the recent years has situated this topic in the policy and research agenda. Food waste entails environmental, ethical and ...
Ridaura Aldana, Gregorio (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
In search to contribute to the current fight against climate change, the industrial sector is immersed in a transition to the Circular Economy (CE) to achieve resource efficiency through the redesign ...
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 ...
Guesmi, Bouali (Date of defense: 2014-01-23)
Firm-level productivity and efficiency analyses have important implications for the evaluation of their economic viability and sustainability. The assessment of a firm's performance requires the use of ...
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 ...