Magdalena Werner (MSc. Agrarwissenschaften)

Magdalena Werner Research Assistant

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Training Magdalena Werner studied agricultural sciences at the Universities Kassel/Witzenhausen and Göttingen. She specialized in agricultural economics and social sciences with an emphasis on agricultural politics, rural development and natural resource management.
Career During her studies at the University Göttingen she worked as student research assistant in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development on Marketing research and on Food Security and Rural Development.
In 2008 she got an ASA scholarship and spent three months in Bénin, working on the value chain of water melon producers in Northern Bénin.
From 2009 – 2010 she wrote her master thesis Adaptation to climate variability: production strategies of Fulani agro-pastoralists in Mopti Region, Mali at the DITSL under the supervision of PD Dr. B.A. Kaufmann. She conducted fieldwork for three months in Mopti region, Mali and collected data with a participatory rural appraisal approach. She applied qualitative methods such as communication tools and open in-depth interviews.
Since 2010 she is responsible for the collaboration with two producer groups in Mopti region, Mali. In 2011 she started working at the DITSL as research assistant and conducts evaluation and monitoring, project documentation and project acquisition.
Experience abroad Magdalena Werner has experience in USA, Turkey, Bénin and Mali and short-term experience in Rwanda and Burundi.
Research Her main interest is on qualitative methods, system analysis, low external input systems and resource management.