German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Research Fellow

Short CV

Since 05/2020: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute for Asian Studies
2019: Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Berlin/Hamburg
2018 - 2019: Senior Researcher at the Chair of “International Food Economics and Rural Development” at the University of Göttingen
2018 - 2020: Consultant for the “International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center” (CIMMYT), Mexico
2015 - 2018: : PhD student/Junior Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 990: „Ecological and socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)“ at the University of Göttingen
Education: PhD in Agricultural Economics at University of Goettingen, Title: “Land-use change and rural development in Indonesia: Economic, institutional and demographic aspects of deforestation and oil palm expansion” (summa cum laude); M.A. Development Economics at University of Göttingen ; B.A. International Economics and Development at Bayreuth University

Current Research

Economic and social impacts of land-use change and global land acquisitions
Smallholder farming systems in developing countries
Development and Agricultural Economics

Countries and Regions

Indonesia

Research Programmes

Globalisation and Development

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Research Fellow

christoph.kubitza@giga-hamburg.de

American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 08/2022

Technical Efficiency and Farmland Expansion: Evidence from Oil Palm Smallholders in Indonesia

This study asks whether innovation in smallholder production reduces or accelerates land expansion. Even though innovation in agriculture has reduced land expansion globally, rebound effects can occur locally and often at the expense of vital ecosystem functions...

Dr. Bernhard Dalheimer

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Bernhard Brümmer

Journal of Human Resources | 12/2021

Agricultural Productivity and Fertility Rates: Evidence from the Oil Palm Boom in Indonesia

The authors analyse the link between agricultural productivity growth and fertility rates, using the oil palm boom in Indonesia as an empirical setting. They find consistent negative effects of oil palm expansion on fertility during the period 1996-2016. This article aims to explain these findings.

Dr. Esther Gehrke

Wageningen University

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Research Fellow

Ecological Economics | 01/2021

Impact of Oil Palm Expansion on the Provision of Private and Community Goods in Rural Indonesia

This article examines the impacts of oil palm expansion on rural economic development in Indonesia. We carried out a nation-wide study to examine the effects of oil palm expansion on rural households' access to essential private goods, and on community goods.

Vijesh V. Krishna

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Research Fellow

Monograph | Bern Open Publishing | 2021

Taking Stock of the Global Land Rush: Few Development Benefits, many Human and Environmental Risks

More than a decade after the surge in large-scale land acquisition in the Global South, the Land Matrix Initiative takes stock of the "global land rush" and its socioeconomic and environmental impacts in its third analytical report. The findings are alarming.

Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Dr. Ward Anseeuw

Dr. Sandra Eckert

Dr. Insa Flachsbarth

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Nolte

Markus Giger

Nature Communications | 03/2020