Miet Maertens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 234066 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Miet Maertens |
| NOMBRES | Miet |
| APELLIDO | Maertens |
| FIRMA | MAERTENS M |
| AFILIACIONES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7245-0375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Fuel, food, and feminized time
Employment aspirations of young agroindustry workers in Peru – Poverty, gender and role models
National and voluntary sustainability standards
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are market-based mechanisms promoting sustainability in agri-food value chains. VSS can create challenges related to compliance, market access and acceptance for producers in emerging countries. To address this challenge, some emerging countries have established national sustainability standards (NSS). This paper compares VSS (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and Rainforest Alliance) and NSS (Indonesian …
Gendered fertility intentions and child schooling
Fertility decline in human history is a complex enigma. Different triggers have been proposed, among others the increased demand for human capital resulting in parents making a quantity–quality (QQ) trade-off. This is the first study that examines the existence of a QQ trade-off and the possible gender bias by analyzing fertility intentions rather than fertility outcomes. We rely on the unified growth theory to understand the QQ trade-off concept…
Enhancing land productivity through a better organization of irrigation cooperatives
From chocolate to palm oil
Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are transnational governance instruments that can be leveraged to pursue sustainable development in global value chains. They have proliferated since the 1990s in terms of their number and the share of global production they govern. This paper shares some key insights arising from the considerable body of literature that has analysed the role of these instruments for sustainable production and trade. First…
The economic costs of cadmium non‐tariff measures for smallholder cocoa farmers in Ecuador
While there is a growing number of studies on the export‐ and firm‐level implications of non‐tariff measures for developing countries, there is little evidence on the trickle‐down effects on the farm level. In this paper, we analyse the recent regulations of the European Union regarding the maximum allowed cadmium (Cd) contents for cocoa‐derived products. We assess the potential economic costs associated with these Cd regulations for smallholder …
African food system and biodiversity mainly affected by urbanization via dietary shifts
The rapid urbanization in Africa profoundly affects local food and ecological systems. According to earlier research, urbanization may cause food production and biodiversity losses as agricultural or natural lands are absorbed by expanding cities. Land-use displacement effects may buffer agricultural production losses or may lead to additional biodiversity losses but are often overlooked. Moreover, impacts of dietary changes associated with urban…
Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility Choices in Rural Senegal and Uganda
Feminist economic approaches have transformed mainstream economic analysis to better account for intrahousehold decision making. To quantify decision making, studies resort to self-reported survey-based measures, derived from questions directed to household members, or proxy-variable methods. This study uses a choice experiment, a stated preference method, implemented in rural Senegal and Uganda and specifically distinguishes between individual a…
Carrots rather than sticks
Aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have gained prominence as market‐based tools for sustainability governance. However, whether VSS improve economic sustainability remains subject to vigorous debate. A major limitation of the evidence base is that it does not systematically examine which VSS design attributes affect their impact. In this study, we develop a conceptual framework disentang…
Temporary labor mobility to various geographical and sectoral destinations improves rural incomes − Insights from Peru
Voluntary sustainability standards and farmer welfare
Trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards in tropical commodity sectors
Sustainable maize intensification through site-specific nutrient management advice
There is growing evidence on the impacts of site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) from Asia. The evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where SSNM developments are more recent and where conditions concerning soil fertility and fertilizer use differ importantly from those in Asia, is extremely scarce. We evaluate a SSNM advisory tool that allows extension agents to generate fertilizer recommendations tailored to the specific situation of an ind…
Small Family, Happy Family? Fertility Preferences and the Quantity–Quality Trade-Off in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gender Inequality and Job Satisfaction in Senegal
Relating risk preferences and risk perceptions over different agricultural risk domains
Households in developing countries are exposed to various shocks and risks, which leaves them vulnerable as they typically have limited resources to cope with them. Even though a large body of development literature has focused on the role of risk in rural livelihoods, the focus is often on single sources of risk and taking a unidimensional view on risk preference. This paper explores the diversity in risk perception and risk preferences of Ethio…
The impact of land certification and risk preferences on investment in soil and water conservation
Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda
This paper provides evidence on the heterogeneous welfare implications of rural income portfolios in eastern Uganda. We use household survey data from two-panel rounds, and fixed and random effects estimation and quantile regressions to estimate average and heterogeneous effects. While the literature mostly focuses on either income diversification or participation in non-farm activities, we distinguish between income diversification, using the Si…
Decent work in global food value chains
Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade
You Can(’t) Always Get the Job You Want
Employment in high-value agro-export sectors has been recognised to entail the potential to contribute to poverty reduction in rural areas of developing countries. Concerns have yet been raised about the quality of the created employment and worker preferences have often been overlooked in the literature. We use a discrete choice experiment, in which we relate stated and revealed employment preference of agro-industry export workers in Peru. We e…
Can employment empower women? Female workers in the pineapple sector in Ghana
Standards, trade margins and product quality
Trade, Standards, and Poverty
Understanding the Process of Agricultural Technology Adoption
Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains
Global value chains, large-scale farming, and poverty
Horticultural exports, female wage employment and primary school enrolment
The Role of Fairtrade Certification for Wages and Job Satisfaction of Plantation Workers
Decent work in global food value chains
Do private coffee standards ‘walk the talk’ in improving socio-economic and environmental sustainability
The Impact of Private Food Standards on Developing Countries’ Export Performance
Coping with landslide risk through preventive resettlement. Designing optimal strategies through choice experiments for the Mount Elgon region, Uganda
Do private standards create exclusive supply chains? New evidence from the Peruvian asparagus export sector
Standards, trade margins and product quality
Does Off-Farm Wage Employment Make Women in Rural Senegal Happy
This paper investigates the impact of wage employment on women’s well-being in the Senegalese horticultural export industry. It uses a subjective well-being approach, based on self-reported happiness, to capture income and non-income aspects of employment. The study uses original survey data from 2013 for the Saint-Louis region in Senegal and an instrumental variable approach, supported by information from focus group discussions. It finds that w…
Moving Up or Moving Out? Insights into Rural Development and Poverty Reduction in Senegal
Farmers’ perspectives on payments for ecosystem services in Uganda
Impact of membership in frankincense cooperative firms on rural income and poverty in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
African food system and biodiversity mainly affected by urbanization via dietary shifts
The rapid urbanization in Africa profoundly affects local food and ecological systems. According to earlier research, urbanization may cause food production and biodiversity losses as agricultural or natural lands are absorbed by expanding cities. Land-use displacement effects may buffer agricultural production losses or may lead to additional biodiversity losses but are often overlooked. Moreover, impacts of dietary changes associated with urban…
Can employment empower women? Female workers in the pineapple sector in Ghana
What if mothers are entrepreneurs? Non-farm businesses and child schooling in rural Ghana
Certification of Semi-forest Coffee as a Land-sharing Strategy in Ethiopia
Voluntary sustainability standards and farmer welfare
Trade effects of voluntary sustainability standards in tropical commodity sectors
Relating risk preferences and risk perceptions over different agricultural risk domains
Households in developing countries are exposed to various shocks and risks, which leaves them vulnerable as they typically have limited resources to cope with them. Even though a large body of development literature has focused on the role of risk in rural livelihoods, the focus is often on single sources of risk and taking a unidimensional view on risk preference. This paper explores the diversity in risk perception and risk preferences of Ethio…
From chocolate to palm oil
Temporary labor mobility to various geographical and sectoral destinations improves rural incomes − Insights from Peru
Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries
Food and agricultural commodity value chains in developing and transition countries have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades. Companies and property rights have been privatized, markets liberalized, and economies integrated into global food systems. The liberalization and privatization initially caused the collapse of state‐controlled vertical coordination. More recently, private vertical coordination systems have emerged and are gro…
Trade, Standards, and Poverty
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries
The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this article we examine gender issues related to this change. We conceptualise various mechanisms through which women are directly affected, we review existing empirical evidence and add new survey-based evidence. Our results suggest that, although modern supply chains are gendered, their growth is associated with reduce…
Sustainability in Development Cooperation
This study assesses for the first time the environmental sustainability of development organizations involved in North–South cooperation by quantifying the carbon footprint as a widely adopted indicator. Our objectives are to (1) analyze the criteria that should be met for correct greenhouse gas accounting of development organizations, (2) gain insight into the emission profile for a limited sample of development organizations from Belgium and Ge…
Do private standards create exclusive supply chains? New evidence from the Peruvian asparagus export sector
Horticultural exports, female wage employment and primary school enrolment
Understanding the Process of Agricultural Technology Adoption
The Impact of Private Food Standards on Developing Countries’ Export Performance
Can Agricultural Cooperatives Reduce Poverty? Heterogeneous Impact of Cooperative Membership on Farmers' Welfare in Rwanda
We analyze the inclusiveness and effectiveness of agricultural cooperatives in Rwanda. We estimate mean income and poverty effects of cooperative membership using propensity score matching techniques. We analyze heterogeneous treatment effects across farmers by analyzing how estimated treatment effects vary over farm and farmer characteristics and over the estimated propensity score. We find that cooperative membership in general increases income…
Impact of membership in frankincense cooperative firms on rural income and poverty in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
Global value chains, large-scale farming, and poverty
Coping with landslide risk through preventive resettlement. Designing optimal strategies through choice experiments for the Mount Elgon region, Uganda
Worker Empowerment Through Private Standards. Evidence from the Peruvian Horticultural Export Sector
In this paper we analyse the impact of a variety of private standards on worker empowerment in the horticultural export sector in Peru. Empowerment is defined as workers’ knowledge of their own rights and workers’ perceived agency to improve employment conditions. We use data from a company and a two-round employee survey, and difference-in-difference propensity score matching methods. We find positive effects of private standards on worker empow…
Does Off-Farm Wage Employment Make Women in Rural Senegal Happy
This paper investigates the impact of wage employment on women’s well-being in the Senegalese horticultural export industry. It uses a subjective well-being approach, based on self-reported happiness, to capture income and non-income aspects of employment. The study uses original survey data from 2013 for the Saint-Louis region in Senegal and an instrumental variable approach, supported by information from focus group discussions. It finds that w…
Certification of Semi-forest Coffee as a Land-sharing Strategy in Ethiopia
Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains
Moving Up or Moving Out? Insights into Rural Development and Poverty Reduction in Senegal
The Role of Fairtrade Certification for Wages and Job Satisfaction of Plantation Workers
Facing conservation' or 'conservation with a human face'? People-park interactions in southern Ethiopia
Whereas some conservationists argue that ‘people-oriented approaches’ failed to achieve conservation goals, Nechisar National Park presents a case where ‘strict conservation approaches’ have at best been only partly successful. Nechisar National Park, heralded as a success in the 1990s, today shows a collapsed population of the endemic Swayne’s hartebeest and severe degradation of the emblematic grasslands of the plains. The park is also heavily …
Walk the Talk
We investigate the welfare and productivity implications of private sustainability standards in the coffee sector in Uganda. We use cross-sectional household survey data and an instrumental variable method with instruments that pass weak identification and over-identification restrictions. We find that triple Utz-Rainforest Alliance-4C certification increases income, and land and labour productivity, and reduces poverty. Double Fairtrade-Organic …
Do private coffee standards ‘walk the talk’ in improving socio-economic and environmental sustainability
Adoption Constraints for Small-scale Agroforestry-based Biofuel Systems in India
Fairtrade does not walk the talk
What if mothers are entrepreneurs? Non-farm businesses and child schooling in rural Ghana
Farmers’ perspectives on payments for ecosystem services in Uganda
Economics (45 obras) · Business (35 obras) · Geography (28 obras) · Economic growth (25 obras) · Agriculture (21 obras) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (20 obras) · Agricultural economics (14 obras) · Demographic economics (14 obras) · Labour economics (13 obras) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (11 obras)