- "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 2016
Learning about perceived, measured, and estimated soil fertility
Linden McBride is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School; Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College; Megan Sheahan works at a new start-up social enterprise, Precision Agriculture for Development, and is a former Research Support Specialist at … Continue reading →
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The drivers of index-based livestock insurance demand in southern Ethiopia
Kazushi Takahashi is an associate professor at Sophia University, Japan, and a former visiting fellow at Cornell’s Dyson School. Pastoralists in arid and semi-arid ecological zones of Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to severe drought, which has repeatedly occurred in … Continue reading →
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How (pre-2007) Kenya represents an alternative approach to fertilizer subsidies
Megan Sheahan works at a new start-up social enterprise, Precision Agriculture for Development, and is a former Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Whenever I’ve presented the main findings from our paper on input use using the LSMS-ISA data … Continue reading →
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Tagged agriculture & rural development, Kenya, public sector & governance, technology, technology adoption
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