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Team

Team Leaders

Prof. Dr. Martina Padmanabhan

Prof. Dr. Martina Padmanabhan

Professor of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies

Martina Padmanabhan is the team leader of IndORGANIC. Trained as an agricultural engineer and rural sociologist with a strong interest in sustainability studies, she examines the influence of gendered institutions enabling or disadvantaging organic farming. She analyses the influence of values and belief systems on the social organisation of agrobiodiversity as a boundary object and its consequences for food sovereignty.

More information: Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with a focus on Southeast Asia

 

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm

Professor of Economics

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm, Professor of Economics

Michael Grimm is a principal investigator of IndORGANIC. He shares the overall responsibility of the project with Prof. Padmanabhan and leads the working package on the determinants of adoption of organic farming practices and socio-economic impacts. At the core of this working package are field experiments that test the effect of various randomized incentives, trainings and awareness measures.

More information: Chair of Development Economics

 

Researchers from Passau

Patrick Keilbart

Patrick Keilbart is a post-Doc research fellow in IndORGANIC. He seeks to shed light on the socio-cultural context of organic agriculture in Indonesia by investigating the principles of local organic farming practice and disclosing the ideas, values, and aspirations associated with such practice. Beyond that, he takes care of the administrative matters of the project and coordinates the research between the different project partners.

More information: Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with a focus on Southeast Asia

Nathalie Luck, PhD student in the IndORGANIC project

Nathalie Luck aims to explore the adoption behavior of farmers with respect to organic farming and investigates the consequences of this adoption on farmers’ welfare by employing a randomized field experiment.

More information: Chair of Development Economics

Dimas Dwi Laksmana, PhD student in the IndORGANIC project

Dimas Dwi Laksmana will explore the institution of organic farming which touches upon the issues of government regulations and policies and how these rules interact with various stakeholders along the value chain of organic products.

More information: Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with a focus on Southeast Asia

Manuela Fritz, M.A. student of Development Studies

More information: Chair of Development Economics

Sarah Redicker, M.A. student of Development Studies

More information: Chair of Development Economics

Ronja Platz, M.A. student of Development Studies

More information: Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with a focus on Southeast Asia

Franziska Steinhübel, M.A. student of Development Studies

More information: Chair of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with a focus on Southeast Asia

Affiliated Researchers

Dr. Satyawan Sunito

Ecological approach to agriculture pre-supposed a long term perspective in all its aspects. In this context my research interest goes to the secure access and control of farmers and rural people in general to the agrarian resources, such as land, water, pastures, forest, coastal and fishing areas.

Dr. Siti Amanah

Research and development in organic agriculture (IndORGANIC) at this time is a need for seeking an effective approach and strategy for better managing the resources, socio-economics and physical environment to safe people, planet, and better prosperity.

Muhamad Haris Zamaludin Setiadiputra, Field Assistant

Haris is a research assistant in the IndORGANIC Project. He is interested in exploring the potential of organic farming to be further proliferated by smallholder farmers. His main focus is to explore the factors that could contribute to speed up the adoption process by analysing the policy design and implementation delivered by the local authorities.

Nurul Dwi Novikarumsari, Field Assistant

I would like to explore the behaviour of communication process among organic farmers, and analyse the effects of organic farming extension as communication process of innovation towards sustainable farming. 

Prof. Dr. Dwi Andreas Santosa

Prof. Ir. Ahmad Sulaeman

 

Nurcahyaningtyas Subandi, Field Assistant

Nurcahyaningtyas Subandi is a Research Assistant in the IndORGANIC Project. She is interested in exploring the dominant determinants that influence the decision of turning into organic farming. Employing the Analytical Network Process, the objective of the study is to identify the appropriate strategy for developing organic farming in the Yogyakarta region.

Bambang K. Prihandono, S.Sos., M.A.

Young entrepreneurs and rural creative economy in organic agriculture: how young entrepreneurs uses innovative forms of social network and marketing to create rural creative economy in organic agriculture.

Suryo Aji Pramono, S.IP, M.Si.

Interested in looking at the socio-economic aspects of farmers subsisting as organic farmers, whether through subsidiarity of other sources of income, support of social networks/social capital, or through forms of community organizations.

Kristian Tamtomo, PhD & St. Nindito S.Sos, M.Si

Tamtomo and Nindityo are interested in tracing the social history of organic agriculture as a social movement in Yogyakarta. In particular, the ideology and discourse of organic agriculture as a social movement in pioneering organic agricultural groups and how these groups react to recent developments in the commercial organic industry.

 

Arief Rifali Firman

AOI aims at strengthening and promoting organic farming movements and fair trade in Indonesia. This is accordance with a research program by the University of Passau in IndORGANIC – The societal transformation of agriculture into bioeconomy.

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