Felix Reichel
Global hunger remains structurally persistent, and current trajectories imply that nearly 600 million people will still face hunger in 2030 [1,2]. Agricultural productivity growth is increasingly constrained by nonlinear heat stress, groundwater depletion, CO2-induced reductions in crop micronutrient concentrations, and increased climate variability and extremes [3-6]. This proposal evaluates whether controlled acoustic stimulation could operate as a candidate marginal agricultural input. While plant mechano-biology and related agronomic studies report measurable physiological and growth responses to sound exposure that are often heterogeneous across species, frequencies, and contexts, economic integration, causal validation, and structural cost‒benefit modelling remain missing [7-10]. One can embed acoustic input within a Cobb‒Douglas production framework, extend it to stochastic climate environments, derive dynamic adoption conditions under risk aversion, and design a power-randomized controlled trial (RCT) linked to structural calibration. The objective for the proposed future research is a disciplined empirical test of a potentially scalable productivity margin under food security SDG II.
Food Security, Agricultural Productivity, Poverty Alleviation, Causal Inference, Production Theory
Felix Reichel, Graduate Student, Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Sweden.
Reichel, F. (2026). Plants Versus ZZombies: Do Plants Respond Differently to Vivaldi or Metal? - Acoustic Input as an Agricultural Production Factor: A Greenhouse Pre-Analysis Plan with Potential Applications for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainability Funding. Econ Dev Glob Mark, 1(2), 01-23.