- "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: May 2015
Resilience: Who are the non-resilient?
Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. With the growing focus on resilience programming among donors and implementers, resilience measurement is potentially a powerful tool for targeting and evaluating interventions. But who are the non-resilient? Simply, the non-resilient … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, methods, poverty, resilience
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The economics that really matters: Participate in the discussion
The ETRM editorial team would like to extend an invitation to young researchers studying development, applied, and/or agricultural economics to use the ETRM blog as a platform for research dissemination and discussion during the summer months. Beginning today and extending … Continue reading →
Looking beyond the lamplight: Measuring resilience in Somalia*
Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. A policeman walking along a dark road spies a man looking for something beneath a street lamp. On questioning, the man explains that he’s looking for his keys. The two search … Continue reading →
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Call for papers: Conference on the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces
Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. The African Development Bank, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Cornell University, the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), and the World Bank are jointly organizing a conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, conference, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sustainability science: “Informing agitation” for sustainable development
On May 5th, the Dyson School hosted Bill Clark, the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Bill gave a rousing talk on the needs for and … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, climate change, energy, environment, human capital, natural resource, social development, summaries, water
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Monitoring and evaluating a complex seed system: The African Seed Access Index
Edward Mabaya is an Associate Director at Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development and Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Amanda Ward is an MPA Candidate at Cornell Institute of Public Affairs. Agriculture and Seed Systems in Africa … Continue reading →
Call for applications: Junior researchers on social media at Global Food Security Conference
Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist, Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate, and Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Social media is transforming the way researchers communicate their ideas, providing an avenue to reach new and … Continue reading →
MIEDC 2015: highlights of young researchers’ work
Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate, Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD student, and Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. We just returned from the 12th Annual Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MIEDC) in Madison, Wisconsin organized by the … Continue reading →