Research Fellows
Ph. D. Tandems
Disciplinary tandems make up the Ph.D. subprojects. Each disciplinary researcher based in Germany is complemented by a counterpart based in India.
Economics
Monish Jose, MSc
Project title: Impact of land use transformations on income and employment of agricultural households in Wayanad district of Kerala
E-Mail: jose@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Girigan Gopi, M. Phil.
Project title: Economic valuation of rice ecosystem services; Detrimental cost of conversion of rice fields
E-Mail: gopi@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Ecology
Lydia Betz, Dipl.-Biol.
Project title: Effects of land-use change and agricultural intensification on faunal diversity in rice cultivation areas in Wayanad, India
E-Mail: betz@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Prajeesh Parameswaran, MSc
Project title: The composition of the non-crop flora in the rice-paddy system and its variation along the gradient of agricultural intensification
E-Mail: parameswaran@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Rural Sociology / Gender Studies
Isabelle Kunze, MSocSc
Project title: The Social Organisation of Agrobiodiversity Use in Wayanad, South India
E-Mail: kunze@umwelt.uni-hannover.de
Suma Thamaracheriyil Ramachandran
Project title: The micro politics that reorganise the Kurichya joint families and the Community agrobiodiversity management (in the context of Decentralisation in Kerala)
E-Mail: suma@umwelt.uni-hannover.de