- "Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Multidisciplinary approaches to analysis and fieldwork: High-quality coffee markets in Colombia
Juan N. Hernández-Aguilera, Mary Kate Wheeler, and Romane Viennet are all members of Cornell’s Dyson School. Juan is a PhD student, Mary Kate is an MS student, and Romane is a Research Assistant. Economic analysis is a challenge when studying … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, Colombia, environment, fieldwork, impact evaluation, natural resource, risk, technology
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Call for papers: Conference on Size and Type Dependent Regulations
Cornell’s Ravi Kanbur and the Inter‐American Development Bank’s Santiago Levy are organizing a conference in Ithaca, NY on October 1-2, 2015 on Size and Type Dependent Regulations, concerning enterprises in both developing and developed countries.
Year of Soils 2015: Food quality and health
Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. As discussed in our previous post, soil quality influences the marginal productivity of land, fertilizer and other agricultural inputs, therefore impacting the quantity of food that can be produced on any … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, food security, health, nutrition, poverty, soils, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Lessons from implementing a field survey in India
Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi). My dissertation research (described in greater detail here) focuses on linkages between agriculture and health. I look at … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, fieldwork, food security, gender, health, human capital, India, nutrition
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A tribute to Cornell’s role in global poverty reduction
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Cornell University is celebrating its 150th birthday, its sesquicentennial, with lots of pomp and circumstance this year. As part of the festivities, I’ve had the unique and tremendous pleasure … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, aid, education, energy, environment, event, food security, gender, health, human capital, nutrition, poverty, private sector development, social development, trade, urban development, water
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Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions
Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are evaluated solely on their yield impacts. It makes sense; everyone wants higher yields, right? In reality, however, yield-improving interventions are … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, climate change, Ethiopia, risk, technology
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Year of Soils 2015: Productivity and poverty
Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Soils are a fundamental resource for smallholder farmers: they support production of cultivated and managed vegetation used for food, animal feed, fiber, fuel, and medicinal products. They also store and … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, food security, natural resource, poverty, soils, Sub-Saharan Africa, technology adoption
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