Markus Giger

Dr. Markus Giger
Associated Senior Research Scientist
Sustainability Governance Cluster
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
Universität Bern
Mittelstrasse 43
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 37 52
Phone2: +41 (0) 31 631 88 22
E-mail: markus.giger(at)cde.unibe.ch
URL Institution: www.cde.unibe.ch/
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Chairman Steering Committee Land Matrix Initiative



Key Publications of Markus Giger (up to ten) :
Giger, Markus, and Irene Musselli. "Could global norms enable definition of sustainable farming systems in a transformative international trade system?." Discover sustainability 4, no. 1 (2023): 18.
OPEN ACCESS: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43621-023-00130-0
Giger, M., Reys, A., Anseeuw, W., Mutea, E., & Kiteme, B. (2022). Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya. Journal of rural studies, 96, 343-357.
Lay, J., Anseeuw, W., Eckert, S., Flachsbarth, I., Kubitza, C., Nolte, K., & Giger, M. (2021). Taking stock of the global land rush: Few development benefits, many human and environmental risks. Analytical Report III. Bern, Montpellier, Hamburg, Pretoria: Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern; Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement. German Institute for Global and Area Studies.
Giger, M., Mutea, E., Kiteme, B., Eckert, S., Anseeuw, W., & Zaehringer, J. G. (2020). Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area: Inventory and analysis of business models. Land use policy, 99, 104833.
Mwangi, V., Owuor, S., Kiteme, B., Giger, M., Jacobi, J., & Kirui, O. (2020). Linking Household Food Security and Food Value Chains in North West Mt. Kenya. Sustainability, 12(12), 4999.
Interdonato R., Bourgoin J., Grislain Q., Zignani M., Gaito S., Giger M. (2020) The parable of arable land: characterizing large scale land acquisitions through network analysis. PLOS ONE.
Oberlack, C., Breu, T., Giger, M., Harari, N., Herweg, K., Mathez-Stiefel, S. L., ... & Tribaldos, T. (2019). Theories of change in sustainability science: Understanding how change happens. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 28(2), 106-111.
Oberlack, C., Breu, T., Giger, M., Harari, N., Herweg, K., Mathez-Stiefel, S. L., ... & Tribaldos, T. (2019). Theories of change in sustainability science: Understanding how change happens. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 28(2), 106-111.Giger, Markus, Kerstin Nolte, Ward Anseeuw, Thomas Breu, Wytske Chamberlain, Peter Messerli, Christoph Oberlack, and Tobias Haller. 2019. Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on common-pool resources. In: The Commons in a Glocal World: Global Connections and Local Responses (2019): 257. edited by Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Tine De Moor, Christian Rohr, Heinzpeter Znoj. Routledge.
Oberlack, Christoph, Laura Tejada, Peter Messerli, Stephan Rist, and Markus Giger (2016). "Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials." Global Environmental Change 41 (2016): 153-171
Giger, M., Liniger, H., Sauter, C., & Schwilch, G. (2015). Economic Benefits and Costs of Sustainable Land Management Technologies: An Analysis of WOCAT's Global Data. Land Degradation & Development.






Specialties of Markus Giger:
land governance, land aquisitions, natural resource managment, desertification, food security, climate change adaptation

Last update: 11/30/23
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