Matin Qaim

Datos Biográficos

ID229916
NOMBREMatin Qaim
NOMBRESMatin
APELLIDOQaim
FIRMAQAIM M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Göttingen
ORCID0000-0003-4143-0763
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS81
TOTAL DE CITAS662
TOTAL COMO AUTOR81
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2003
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H14

  • The sustainability of diets in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJuliana Minetto Gellert Paris, Ute Nöthlings et al.ARTICLESustainable Production and…2026

    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces unique food security and sustainability challenges. The diets in SSA are insufficient on average, but how they compare across various population segments in terms of nutritional adequacy and environmental footprints is not sufficiently understood. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of diets can be useful, but existing life cycle inventories mostly refer to high-income countries. Hence, data and methodological adjustments a…

  • Spousal cooperation and dietary quality in Cameroon

    Open AccessFrancis E Ndip, Sundus Saleemi et al.ARTICLEFood Security2026

    Spousal cooperation is considered an important intra-household factor that improves wellbeing, yet its role in shaping diets and nutrition remains underexplored. Here, we combine a lab-in-the field experiment with survey data from Cameroon to analyze how spousal cooperation relates to household, children’s, and women’s dietary quality. Spousal cooperation is measured in terms of husband’s and wife’s budget allocations to a public goods game. Regr…

  • The effects of internet use on smallholder farmers’ income and dietary quality in Bangladesh

    Open AccessFariha Farjana, Thanh-Tung Nguyen et al.ARTICLEFood Security2026

    Internet access in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries is expanding at a rapid rate and affects how people produce and consume food and other goods and services. This may have implications for the incomes and diets of smallholder farm households, where poverty and undernutrition are still commonplace. In this study, we use primary data collected from 720 farm households in Bangladesh to analyze how internet use affects agricultural pr…

  • Seasonality of employment and food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJonas Guthoff, Martin C Parlasca et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2026

    Many rural households in sub-Saharan Africa rely on rainfed agriculture, meaning that harvests and incomes from farming are highly seasonal. This leads to recurring periods of food insecurity, commonly referred to as lean seasons. Off-farm employment may help mitigate seasonal food insecurity, but evidence on whether it actually does remains scarce. Using panel data from high-frequency phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Uganda, covering t…

  • Urbanization and individual dietary quality

    Open AccessVivien Hülsen, Hannah Ameye et al.ARTICLEHabitat International2026

    http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 German Research Foundation

  • Evolving Farm and Off‐Farm Income Sources and Jobs in Rural Africa

    Open AccessChrispinus Mutsami, Martin C Parlasca et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2025

    Livelihood sources in rural Africa are diverse and dynamic. Using recent primary survey data from four African countries—Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia—we consider regions with different conditions related to climate, agroecology, infrastructure and nature conservation to analyse the role of various income sources for households and individuals. Although most rural households are involved in small‐scale farming, we challenge the conventional…

  • Agrivoltaics increases public acceptance of solar energy production on agricultural land

    Open AccessHendrik Hilmar Zeddies, Martin Parlasca et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025Citada por: 5Referencias: 45

    Competition for land is a key challenge for decarbonized energy transitions. Open-space solar energy farms are gaining in importance but have large land requirements and displace agricultural production. Agrivoltaics offers a compromise, integrating solar panels into existing farming operations. However, adoption of Agrivoltaics remains limited, as it has lower energy output per hectare and higher installation costs than open-space solar. Here, w…

  • Effects of recurrent rainfall shocks on poverty and income distribution in rural Ecuador

    Open AccessMaría Teresa Pinto, Maria Cristhina Llerena Pinto et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

  • Urbanizing food environments in Africa

    Open AccessHannah Ameye, Vivien Hülsen et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2025Citada por: 3Referencias: 6

  • Impacts of supermarkets on child nutrition in China

    Open AccessZhen Liu, Lukas Kornher et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2024Referencias: 7

    In many emerging countries, agri-food value chains are transforming rapidly. One emblematic trend is the proliferation of supermarkets and other modern retailers. Supermarkets affect the way supply chains are organized and may also influence the types of foods purchased and eaten by consumers. Research on what this means for people’s diets and nutrition is still relatively scant. Here, we analyze the effects of supermarkets on child diets and nut…

  • Market food environments and child nutrition

    Open AccessVivien Hülsen, Makaiko G Khonje et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2024Referencias: 8

    Child malnutrition remains a widespread public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Providing access to nutritious foods for all is key, but it is not clear how this can be achieved in various local contexts. Here, we analyze the role of markets and food environments for child diets and nutrition in Malawi along a rural-urban continuum. We develop a new methodology to characterize food environments in terms of the variety of fresh and processed …

  • Maternal employment in high-value agriculture and child nutrition

    Open AccessAstewale Bimr Melaku, Matin Qaim et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 11

    Maternal employment in floriculture negatively affects child nutritional status. • Floriculture employment reduces women’s time for childcare and diet quality. • Yet, floriculture employment increases female financial autonomy. • It increases total household income mainly for poorer households. • Policy action needed to improve conditions and avoid undesirable social outcomes. In many low- and middle-income countries, agri-food supply chains are …

  • Marriage customs and nutritional status of men and women

    Open AccessElza S Elmira, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2024Referencias: 7

    Analysis of links between marriage customs and nutritional status in Indonesia. • Patrilocality is linked to lower BMI in women, suggesting gender discrimination. • Matrilocality is associated with reduced discrimination against women. • Bridewealth practices are associated with higher BMI among both women and men. • Marriage customs should be explicitly considered in nutrition research and policy. Malnutrition remains a serious problem. While va…

  • Patterns of temporary rural migration

    Open AccessMd Sohel Rana, Matin QaimARTICLEWorld Development2024Referencias: 4

    Migration from rural to urban areas is common in many low- and middle-income countries. However, temporary migration from rural to other rural areas also occurs and is not yet well understood. Here, we conceptualize what drives rural people to migrate temporarily to other rural areas, rather than to urban areas where wages are usually higher. This question is analysed with qualitative data collected through group discussions and in-depth intervie…

  • Spatial heterogeneity in smallholder oil palm production

    Open AccessKibrom T Sibhatu, Linda Steinhübel et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 11

  • What about her? Oil palm cultivation and intra-household gender roles

    Open AccessNadjia Mehraban, Bethelhem Legesse Debela et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2022Citada por: 6Referencias: 16

    Oil palm is one of the fastest expanding crops in tropical regions, leading to massive land-use changes and far-reaching social implications. In Indonesia, much of the oil palm land is cultivated by smallholder farmers. While household income effects of oil palm cultivation were analyzed in previous studies, effects on intra-household gender roles are not yet well understood. Here, we use sex-disaggregated survey data from farm households in Suma…

  • Oil palm cultivation improves living standards and human capital formation in smallholder farm households

    Open AccessDaniel Chrisendo, Hermanto Siregar et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Citada por: 5Referencias: 5

    Oil palm cultivation is a controversial topic because of its manifold sustainability implications. Recent research in Southeast Asia suggests that oil palm cultivation is associated with income gains for many smallholder farmers, but whether these income gains also translate into longer-term improvements in household living standards remains unclear. Here, we use three rounds of panel data from smallholder farmers in Sumatra, Indonesia, to analyz…

  • Mobile phones, women's physical mobility, and contraceptive use in India

    Open AccessPallavi Rajkhowa, Matin QaimARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 6Referencias: 55

    Women's economic and social empowerment is facilitated by their ability to move around independently and safely. However, in many developing countries women's physical mobility is restricted by social norms, structural impediments related to poor quality of roads and transport systems, and security issues. Restrictions on female physical mobility and low levels of empowerment can also have negative implications for women's access to healthcare se…

  • Smallholder Farmers’ Dissatisfaction with Contract Schemes in Spite of Economic Benefits

    Open AccessAnette Ruml, Matin QaimARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2021

    Contract farming is typically seen as a useful mechanism to help smallholders in overcoming market access constraints. However, in spite of economic benefits, high smallholder dropout rates from contract schemes are commonplace. We use quantitative and qualitative data from Ghana to show that smallholder farmers benefit from a resource-providing contract in terms of higher yields and incomes, but that most of them still regret their decision to p…

  • Using Google data to measure the role of Big Food and fast food in South Africa’s obesity epidemic

    Open AccessSteffen Otterbach, Hamid Reza Oskorouchi et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2021Citada por: 9Referencias: 5

    Many developing countries face a rapid increase in overweight and obesity, inasmuch as the prevalence has now nearly converged to levels observed in high-income countries. Among other factors, the rise in obesity is caused by a nutrition transition involving higher affordability and consumption of heavily processed or otherwise unhealthy foods containing high amounts of added sugar, fat, and salt. This development is accompanied by the growing ex…

  • Fairtrade, Agrochemical Input Use, and Effects on Human Health and the Environment

    Open AccessJorge Sellare, Eva‐Marie Meemken et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2020

    It is often assumed that voluntary sustainability standards – such as Fairtrade – could not only improve the socioeconomic wellbeing of smallholder farmers in developing countries but could also help to reduce negative health and environmental impacts of agricultural production. The empirical evidence is thin, as most previous studies on the impact of sustainability standards only focused on economic indicators, such as prices, yields, and income…

  • Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in Indonesian farm households

    Open AccessDaniel Chrisendo, Vijesh V Krishna et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 18

    Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional crops – such as rubber and rice – and forest land. While environmental effects of the oil palm boom were analyzed in many studies, much less is known about social effects. Here, we analyze how oil palm cultivation by smallholder farme…

  • Subsistence production, markets, and dietary diversity in the Kenyan small farm sector

    Open AccessDavis Muthini, Jonathan Nzuma et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 5

    Undernutrition and low dietary quality remain widespread problems in poor population segments, especially among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, the question how smallholder systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive is of particular relevance for research and policy. Recent studies analyzed whether increasing farm production diversity may help to improve nutrition. Most existing studies found a positive but small effect on die…

  • Supermarket contracts and smallholder farmers

    Open AccessSylvester Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng Ogutu et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 18

    Food systems in developing countries are changing rapidly with a growing role of modern supermarkets. Supermarkets influence supply chains and the way agricultural products are sourced from farmers. Especially for the procurement of fresh fruits and vegetables, supermarkets often contract farmers directly to ensure consistent and high-quality supply. One important question, which is addressed here, is whether smallholder farmers benefit from supe…

  • Supermarket procurement and farmgate prices in India

    Open AccessChandra S R Nuthalapati, Rajib Sutradhar et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2020Citada por: 3Referencias: 13

    Supermarkets have gained in importance in the food systems of many developing countries, with profound implications for smallholder farmers. Several studies analyzed effects of selling to supermarkets on smallholder productivity and income. However, no previous work systematically analyzed effects of supermarkets on farmgate prices, even though prices are important determinants of farmers’ profits and livelihoods. Here, we use data from smallhold…