Hecht Judith

Activity Areas

Since July 2009: Researcher at FiBL
July 2004–July 2010: PhD student in Agricultural Economics, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany.
Research fields: Bio-economic modelling, household economics in developing countries, ecological-economics, decision making.
Dissertation: "Decision making of rural farm households in Namibia –Lessons learned from multi-annual programming optimisation models" supervised by Prof. Ernst-August Nuppenau
May 2007–Deccember 2008: Researcher at the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (vTI), Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Institute of Farm Economics, Braunschweig, Germany.
October 2000–October 2003: Master program International Agricultural Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany.
Research fields: Agricultural Economics
Master thesis: "International Comparision of the Support for Organic Farming – Transferability of the PSE Concept of the OECD" supervised by Dr. Frank Offermann at the Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (vTI) and Prof. Dr. Dieter Kirschke at the Humboldt University of Berlin
October 1996–October 2000 Bachelor Program Agricultural Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Bachelor thesis: "Potentials for Development of Ostrich Farms in South Africa" [Entwicklungspotentiale für Straußenfarmen in Südafrika] supervised by Dr. Irina Gillwald at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Publications that are not in the database Organic Eprints

Hecht, J., (2010): Decision Making of Rural Farm Households in Namibia: Lessons Learned From Multi-Annual Programming Optimisation Models. Cuvillier Göttingen. Deutschland. Zugl. Giessen Dissertation
Pröpper, M., Gröngröft, A., Falk, T., Eschenbach, A., Fox, T., Gessner, U., Hecht, J., Hinz, M. O., Huettich, C., Hurek, T., Kangombe, F. N., Keil, M., Kirk, M., Mapaure, C., Mills, A., Mukuya, R., Namwoonde, N. E., Overmann, J., Petersen, A., Reinhold-Hurek, B., Schneiderat, U., Strohbach, B. J., Lück-Vogel, M., Wisch, U. (2010): Causes and perspectives of land-cover change through expanding cultivation in Kavango. – In: Hoffman, M. T., Schmiedel, U., Jürgens, N. [Eds.]: Biodiversity in southern Africa. Volume 3: Implications for landuse and management: pp. 1–31, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek
Hecht, J., Nieberg, H., Offermann, F. (2009): Maßgerechte Kalkulation statt Einheitsprämie. – In: LandInForm. Deutsche Vernetzungsstelle Ländliche Räume
Offermann, F., Nieberg, H., Hecht, J. (2008): Potential of differentiated payment levels based on standard cost approaches: A case study of selected rural development measures in Germany. Paper presented at The 82nd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society Royal Agricultural College