- 1 Postdoc Position
- 6 PhD Student Positions
The positions will be funded by the VW foundation within the research project The Global Food Crisis – Impacts on wheat markets and trade in the Caucasus and Central Asia and the role of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine in collaboration with national and international partners, specifically the World Bank (USA), ICARE (Armenia), GCAD (Georgia), ACEPAS (Kazakhstan), the Higher School of Economics (Russia), VIAPI (Russia), SAI (Uzbekistan), and CACAARI (Uzbekistan).
The research project will investigate wheat markets in the Caucasus and Central Asia and the major supplier countries of this region, namely Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine (KRU) against the background of the on-going global food crisis. Long-term rising prices and increasing price volatility on the world markets for agricultural raw materials have considerably affected the countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
However, until today research has more or less neglected the impact of the global food crisis on this region. There is nearly no empirical evidence on how wheat markets in this region work and how prices are formed. The present research project wants to close this research gap. Three different but closely connected working groups will carry out empirical analyses on (i) price transmission and price volatility, (ii) structure of the wheat supply chains, and (iii) wheat trade patterns and relationships.
