Since 10/2018: Research Fellow / Doctoral Student at GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, GIGA Doctoral Programme and in the project "Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Data, Patterns, Impacts, and Policies"
09/2016 - 09/2018: Research Assistant at the Research Centre "Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries" at the Chair of Behavioral Development Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany
07/2016 - 09/2018: Research Assistant at the Chair of Development Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany
10/2015 - 01/2016: Research Assistant at the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Education: B.A. in Economics with specialization in Microeconomics at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. M.A. in Development Economics at the University of Göttingen with specialization in agricultural economics
Current Research
Large-scale land acquisitions
Rural Development
Land conflicts
Land policy in Colombia
Countries and Regions
Colombia
Dissertation
Current Issues in Rural Development: Land Tenure, Land Use Change and Climate Change
This article conceptualises and empirically assesses the socioeconomic and environmental risks of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for communal lands in the Global South.
This study uses Generalized Propensity Scores and exploits the randomness of the time between the title’s issuance and the realization of a national representative survey on beneficiary households.
Political Economy of Agricultural Policies and Land Relations, Halle (Saale)
Organisers: Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien
Jorge A. Rincón Barajas (Speaker)
