Dr. Stéphanie Domptail
- Dr. Stéphanie Domptail
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Research profile:
Researcher on human-nature relationships in agricultural socio-ecological systems.
Research foci: Agroecology, Food systems and networks, Ecological economics, Sustainability, Social and Political ecology, Decolonizing economics of natural resource management.
Research methods: Scenario building, Qualitative analyses, Social metabolism, Bio-economic modeling
Regional expertise: Western Europe, Africa, South America
Contact:
Room: 303
Phone: +49 (0) 641 99-37042
Stephanie.Domptail
Institute of Agricultural Policy and Market Research
Senckenbergstraße 3, Zeughaus
35390 Giessen
Germany
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Current projects
- SCLaKE (2024-2027): Social Change Lab for Knowledge Equity. A network of researchers and students from University of Botswana, University de Antioquia and JLU takes part in an introspection and decolonize their research practices. Funded under the SDG Partnership DAAD program.
- ELNAC (2022-2026): Enhanced Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management under Accelerated Climate Change: a large landscape social-ecological systems approach. A consortium of German and African Universities investigates community-based natural resource management schemes in the KaZa transboundary park to reduce human-wildlife conflicts. Under the SASSCAL II call, funded by the BMBF.
Past projects
- Mt. Elgon (2015-2018): Productivity and biological diversity in the coffee-banana system in the Mt. Elgon Region of Uganda: Establishing Trends, Linkages and Opportunities –A bilateral project between Makerere University and Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, a grant won from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany. Senior Postdoc.
- The Future Okavango (2010-2016)conducted an integrated assessment of the dynamics of ecosystem services provision in the Okavango River Basin. It provided scenarios and options for their sustainable management. Postdoc.
- BIOTA southern Africa (2004-2010) assessed and monitored biodiversity, biodiversity changes and biodversity management along a transect starting in Cape Town and extending till Rundu in Northern Namibia. Doktoral candidate.
- IndigenoVeg (2006-2008)
Scientific Career
Since 2020
Researcher-Lecturer, Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research, University of Gießen, Germany
Leading the discussionn groups:- Human-nature relationships in agricultural socio-ecological systems (HINASES) (see below)
- Epistemology and Decolonization
2016-2020
Scientific coordinator – International PhD Program in Agricultural Economics, bioeconomy and Rural Development (IPPAE), Institute for Agricultural policy and market research, University of Giessen, Germany
2010-2016
Postdoc researcher in the project ‘The Future Okavango’, Institute for Agricultural policy and market research, University of Giessen, Germany.
2004-2010
Doctoral researcher in the project BIOTA Southern Africa, Institute for Agricultural policy and market research, University of Giessen, Germany.
PhD Thesis: Towards rangeland conservation strategies – Case study and bio-economic modeling of farms in southern Namibia.2002-2003
Assistant of PhD students and researcher in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), University of Göttingen, Germany. Departments of forestry, agro-ecology and institute for rural development.
2000-2002
International MSc Program in Ecological Agriculture, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.
MSc thesis in cooperation with the CEMAGREF research center, Clermont Ferrand, France: “On landscape change: Why?”1996-2002
5-year Engineer school in Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture, Lille, France.
Ingenieur in AgriculturePublications
Publications of Stéphanie Eileen Domptail on google scholar.
Discussion Group: HINASES (Human-nature Interactions in Agricultural Socio-Ecological Systems)
The HINASES discussion group, nested within the Professorship for Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Policy is led by Dr. Stéphanie Domptail. This collective is dedicated to fostering profound discussions and investigations around the central theme of Human-nature Interactions. These describes the multiple interdependencies between socio-economic and ecological spheres of life. Our work is rooted Ecological Economics, Political Ecology, and Feminist Economics. We put methodological pluralism into practice, employing a range of approaches and methods including systems analysis of socio-ecological systems, socio-metabolism, and epistemic decolonization.
Thematically, our group is involved in agroecology and sustainability of food systems, the political ecology of agricultural/conservation systems, and the decolonization of agricultural and resource economics. We bridge patterns across the world thanks to our multi-continental places of research including Europe, South America and Africa.
In this context, we question how farmers and institutions govern the land-use decisions. Our group aims to develop and strengthen our methods of investigation of the human-nature interface in order to shape sustainable food systems.
We meet every Monday 12:30 for lunch + discussion.
Current group members:
PhD Candidates:
Katleen Marún-Uparela
MSc candidates:
Pedro Uribe
Lena Leihberg
Stefanie Weiter
Juan Diego Castro
Arpit Goel
Alumni:
Dorothee Hensgens
Kyaw Shinn Thant
Andres Suarez
Chukwuma Ume
Timo Asar
Hani Chbib