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Improved on-farm storage reduces seasonal food insecurity of smallholder farmer households
(2020)ISTP4Public Video SeriesIn this "ISTP4Public" video, we focused on a research project investigating low-cost technology for improved on-farm storage. The multi-disciplinary research team responsible for the project includes researchers in Switzerland (ETH Zurich; University of Zurich), research institutes in Africa, and NGOs/IGOS specialized in rural development (Helvetas; UN World Food Programme’s Global Post Harvest Knowledge & Operations Centre). To analyse ...Video -
What drives public support for policies to enhance electric vehicle adoption?
(2020)ISTP4Public Video SeriesThe second video of the "ISTP4Public" video series provides fresh insights into the public support and the political feasibility of policy options for promoting EV adoption. Based on a choice experiment, ISTP PhD student Gracia Brückmann and Prof. Thomas Bernauer found that pull measures, such as subsidies for electric cars, attract more public support even when policy funding is revealed. This suggests that more ambitious pull measures ...Video -
Policy packaging can make food system transformation feasible
(2020)ISTP4Public Video Series“ISTP4Public” started its journey with a recent article on food system transformation, which was published in Nature Food. This study examines how potentially effective policy instruments may be designed and combined so as to reduce public backlash and ensure political feasibility of transforming the food system.Video