September 16, 2026
I joined the International Network for Organic Trade at Tropentag to discuss international trade with organic products.
Welcome!
I am a Junior Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where I lead the Food Economics and Policy Group. My research sits at the intersection of agricultural, food, and international economics, examining how food standards, regulations, and trade-policy shocks shape global agrifood trade and firm-level sourcing behaviour. My work highlights the role of standards in building adaptive capacity and food-system resilience. I also serve as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Featured research
Cross-country heterogeneity in pesticide residue limits
Fiankor et al. (2021), European Review of Agricultural Economics
Selected publications
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Fiankor, D.-D. D., Dalheimer, B., & Mack, G. (2025). Pesticide regulatory heterogeneity, foreign sourcing, and global agricultural value chains. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 107(2), 611–634.
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Fiankor, D.-D. D. (2023). Distance to destination and export price variation within agri-food firms. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 50(2), 563–590.
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Fiankor, D.-D. D., Haase, O.-K., & Brümmer, B. (2021). The heterogeneous effects of standards on agricultural trade flows. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 72(1), 25–46.
Latest news
September 15, 2026
Together with Gabriel Rosero, we organised a pre-conference workshop at this years Tropentag on Integrating AI into Empirical Workflows: Data Analysis with R in Agricultural Economics.
May 25, 2026
New paper out in Food Policy! Together with Bernhard Dalheimer, Kenneth Foster, Gerald Shively, Valerien Pede, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, and Pratibha Bist, we examine public vs private rice storage in the Philippines.
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Updates on food economics, trade policy, and agricultural research.
@ddfiankor