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 ...
Gómez Hernández, Dorian Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
Energy access allows to improve population life quality, specifically in terms of food, education and health. Currently, 10% of the world population does not have electricity. 85% of this population is ...
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 ...