Research programme:Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function: Senior Researcher
Specialization: Agricultural Economy
Work areas:
Responsibilities in education and training:
since 1/2018 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" |
3/2006-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Department "Sustainable Economic and Social Development" Senior Researcher |
2003-2006 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Department "Poverty-oriented development; regional integration; governance" Region: Sub-Sahara Africa Researcher: International and national agricultural policies, world markets for agricultural products |
1997-2003 | Freelance consultant Subjects: Agricultural and resource economics, microfinance in Africa and South Asia |
1997-1998 | University of Hohenheim/ Stuttgart Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics Research assistant (part-time) in the Special Research Program “Adapted Farming in West Africa” Project: The Role of Local Organisations in the Development and Dissemination of Agricultural Innovations in the Rural Areas of Benin |
1996-1997 | University of Hohenheim/ Stuttgart Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics Research Coordinator for South East Asia: Conceptualising and preparing a Special Research Program "Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development for Poverty Alleviation in South East Asia" Region: Thailand and Vietnam |
1990-1996 | University of Hohenheim/ Stuttgart Institute of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics Research assistant in the Special Research Program "Adapted Farming in West Africa" Project: Agricultural Price Policy and its Effect on the Adoption of Innovations, Production, Income, and Employment |
1982-1990 | Technical University of Munich/ Weihenstephan M.Sc. Agronomy, plant production |
Plea for a stronger role for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Brüntrup, Michael (2024)
The Current Column of 17 June 2024
Agricultural growth corridors in sub-Saharan Africa – new hope for agricultural transformation and rural development? The case of the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania
Brüntrup, Michael (2020)
in: Richard Sikor / Eugene R. Terry / Paul L.G. Vlek / Joyce Chitja (eds.), Transforming agriculture in Southern Africa, New York: Routledge, 258-270