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Dr. Caroline Hambloch

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Dr. Caroline Hambloch

Dr. Caroline Hambloch's research focus is on Political economy of development, (agrarian) political economy of food and agriculture, political economy of global value chains and global production networks, labor geography, rural development and (policy) interventions, land reform and governance, rural agency, and resistance.

  • since 2025 DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader
    University of Bonn, Germany
    • Project title: Local labor struggles in global value chains: Control and agency of smallholders and farmworkers in export commodities in the Global South
    • Research focus on labor control and agency of smallholders and laborers in different agricultural sectors in Colombia, Malawi, and the Philippines
    • Supervision of three PhD students 

    • 2021 - 2024 Postdoctoral fellow   
      Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
      • Research group Agrifood Chain Management, Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
      • Research focus on contract farming, food and nutrition security, and global value chains/global production networks
      • Teaching at the master and bachelor levels, interdisciplinary courses 

      • 2019 - 2021 Postdoctoral fellow
        International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Malawi
        • Research team Markets, Institutions, Nutrition, and Diversity (MIND)
        • Conducted primary research on gender- and nutrition-sensitive value chain analysis and development, political economy analysis, and food systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
        • Funded by the Fund International Agricultural Research (FIA) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
        • 2015 - 2019 PhD Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at University of London                         
        • 2013-2015 MSc Economics, University of Copenhagen
        • 2009-2012 BSc Economics and Business Economics, University Maastricht                         

        Peer-reviewed journal articles 

        • Conti, C., Hall, A., Orr, A., Hambloch, C., & Mausch, K. (2024). Complexity-aware principles for agri-food system interventions: Lessons from project encounters with complexity. Agricultural Systems, 220, 104080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104080 1
        • Hambloch, C., Mausch, K., Hall, A., & Conti, C. (2023). Embracing the politics and diversity of nutrition: Beyond technical and market fixes in agriculture-nutrition interventions. Food Security, 15, 363–379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01324-6 2
        • Rustis, G., Hambloch, C., Swamikannu, N., & Moyo, F. (2023). Determinants of Agropastoralist Households’ Fodder Accessibility and Rangeland Conservation in Magu District, Tanzania. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 87, 22–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.005 3
        • Hambloch, C. (2022a). Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), 58–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12462 4
        • Hambloch, C. (2022b). Land formalization turned land rush: The case of oil palm in Papua New Guinea. Land Use Policy, 112, 105818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105818 5
        • Hambloch, C., Kahwai, J., & Mugonya, J. (2021). Contextualizing private sector-based seed system development: The case of sorghum in Eastern Africa. Outlook on Agriculture, 50(4), 378–391. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270211056357 6
        • Mausch, K., Almekinders, C. J. M., Hambloch, C., & McEwan, M. A. (2021). Putting diverse farming households’ preferences and needs at the centre of seed system development. Outlook on Agriculture, 00307270211054111. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270211054111 7
        • Mausch, K., Hall, A., & Hambloch, C. (2020). Colliding paradigms and trade-offs: Agri-food systems and value chain interventions. Global Food Security, 26, 100439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100439 8
        • Vicol, M., Fold, N., Hambloch, C., Narayanan, S., & Pérez Niño, H. (2022). Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471 9

        Book Reviews

        • Hambloch, C. (2018c). The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests, by Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, and Rosamond L. Naylor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. vii + 288. £56 (hb). ISBN: 9780190222987. Journal of Agrarian Change, 18(3), 697–700. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12272 10 11

        Policy reports (selections) 

        Blog posts (selections)

        • 2021 - 2024 Course convener
          • Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Course title: Farm Management in the Agricultural and Horticultural Sector (6 ECTS)
          • Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Course title: Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains in Kenya (12 ECTS)
        • 2021 - 2024 Course co-convener
          • Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Course title: Grundlagen des Agrarmarketing (4 SWS)
                 
        •  2022 - 2023 Course convener
          • Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Course title: Agrifood chains and development (6 ECTS)

        • 2018 Course convener 
          • Department of Economics, SOAS, University of London, UK, Course title: Preliminary economic analysis
             
        • 2017 - 2018 Graduate teaching assistant     
          • Department of Economics, SOAS, University of London, UK, Course title: Advanced Econometrics B (7.5 ECTS)

        • 2017 - 2018 Graduate teaching assistant                                         
          • Department of Economics, SOAS, University of London, UK, Course title: Applied Econometrics (7.5 ECTS)
        • 2023 Humboldt Award for Excellence in Teaching
          • Finalist in the 2022 Excellence in Teaching award for “Collaborative Learning and Teaching”
        • 2018 David Burch Prize
          • 2018 David Burch Prize for Best Student Paper for “Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines” at the Australian Agrifood Research Network

        Links

        1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104080%C2%A0
        2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01324-6%C2%A0
        3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.005
        4. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12462%C2%A0
        5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105818%C2%A0
        6. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270211056357%C2%A0
        7. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270211054111%C2%A0
        8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100439%C2%A0
        9. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471%C2%A0
        10. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12272
        11. https://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/research/workingpapers/file130062.pdf
        12. https://reliefweb.int/report/malawi/livestock-food-and-nutrition-security-malawi-policy-gaps-needs-and-opportunities
        13. https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstreams/2270379f-2dbb-4b92-8025-22f003aa2d99/download
        14. https://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=1468
        15. https://www.aqs.org.uk/contract-farming-in-the-developing-world-a-political-economy-approach/
        16. https://www.preventionweb.net/news/stronger-local-food-value-chains-can-leave-eastern-and-southern-africa-more-resilient-post
        17. https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstreams/9ba454ec-9126-467a-b6a5-010cb99206d3/download