Current Position:

Research Associate at the Chair of Prof Oliver Mußhoff; Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Research Interests:

  • Experimental methods in agricultural economics
  • Resilience and food safety in agri-food value chains
  • Smallholder decision-making under risk and uncertainty
  • Sustainable development of agri-food systems
  • Policy analysis for resilient smallholder production systems

Education:

  • Master of Science in International Economics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
  • Semester abroad at the Agricultural University Bogor (IPB), Indonesia
  • Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Bayreuth

Publications:

Reich, C., & Musshoff, O. (2025). Oil palm smallholders and the road to certification: Insights from Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Management, 375, 124303.

Reich, C., Wahbi, A., Bruns, S., & Mußhoff, O. (2025). It's a man's world: Exploring women's aspirations for income opportunities in Indonesian oil palm villages (No. 2502). Diskussionsbeitrag.

Wever, H., Reich, C. E., Nsengumuremyi, A., Bruns, S., Bonke, V., Michels, M., & Mußhoff, O. (2025). A cross-country comparison of smallholder farmers’ risk attitudes. Applied Economics Letters, 1-6.

Luo, H., Reich, C., & Mußhoff, O. (2023). Does the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown affect risk attitudes?—Evidence from rural Thailand. Plos one, 18(10), e0292873.

Conferences and Workshops:

The Potential of CamGAP to Improve Cambodia’s domestic fresh-Food Value Chain: Consumer’s Preferences And willingness to Pay for Safer Food. Poster presentation, International Conference of Agricultural Economists, New Delhi, India, August 2024.

Beyond the ban - smallholders’ price vulnerability in Indonesia’s palm oil industry.

Poster presentation, International Conference of Agricultural Economists, New Delhi, India, August 2024

Beyond the ban - smallholders’ price vulnerability in Indonesia’s palm oil industry. Selected Paper Presentation, Asian Economic Development Conference, Seoul, July 2024.

Beyond the ban - smallholders’ price vulnerability in Indonesia’s palm oil industry. Selected Paper Presentation, Agricultural Economists Society Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, March 2024.

Invited Workshop on Experimental Methods and Data Analysis in R, University of Jambi, October 2023.

Invited Talk on Experimental Methods in Agricultural Economics, Institut Pertanian Bogor, October 2023.

Indonesian Smallholders Preferences towards Certification Schemes. Selected Paper Presentation, Applied and Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, July 2022.

Indonesian Smallholders Preferences towards Certification Schemes. Selected Paper Presentation, Agricultural Economists Society Annual Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, April 2022.

Work Experience:

  • KfW Office Internship in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • GIGA Institute Research Assistant in Göttingen, Germany and Jambi, Indonesia
  • Georg August University Research Assistant in Jambi, Indonesia
  • Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations Intern in New York, USA
  • Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Intern and Working Student in Stuttgart, Germany

Awards, Grants and Scholarships:

  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst — awarded travel grant for lecturer exchange to teach "Microfinance for the rural poor - a business class" at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, December 2024.
  • Graduate School Forestry and Agricultural Science — awarded travel grant to attend the International Conference of Agricultural Economists conference, August 2024
  • Dorothea Schlözer program — awarded one year mentorship program for young female scientists aiming at contributing to increasing the number of women in leading positions at research institutions, March 2023-March 2024
  • Lift Off Start-up Competition — awarded Social Entrepreneurship Award and Audience Award for start-up concept, June 2023.
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst — Awarded Funding for the Exchange Program at Institut Pertanian Bogor, Indonesia, 2017

Teaching:

  • Experimental Economics, Winter 2025
  • Guest lectures in Introduction to Behavioral Economics, Summer 2023, 2024
  • Guest lectures in Microfinance for the Rural Poor – A Business Class, Winter 2023, 2024