- "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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NBER Workshop Recap: Imperfect and Incomplete Financial Markets & Dynamics and Resilience in Natural Resources and Agriculture
Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Linden McBride is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. This is the third … Continue reading →
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Tagged conference, environment, labor & social protection, natural resource, poverty, poverty trap, resilience, risk
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AERE Summer Conference: Papers on Developing Countries
Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. Teevrat Garg is a Postdoc at the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and an Assistant Professor at the School of Global Policy and … Continue reading →
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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Geo-spatial data repository for agricultural economists
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. We introduce a newly created page on the ETRM blog: a repository of geo-spatial … Continue reading →
Year of Soils 2015: Climate change and ecosystem services
Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. In our previous posts we discussed how the quality and health of soils determine agricultural production and sustainability and, as a consequence, influence human health. Soils also play a critical … Continue reading →
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AERE 2015: Environment and Development
Julia Berazneva and Andrew Simons are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. We attended our first conference of the summer in San Diego last week: the 4th Annual Summer Conference of the Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (AERE). Not only … 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 →
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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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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Year of Soils 2015: Why we should care
Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. On December 5th of 2014 the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon declared 2015 the International Year of Soils, reminding us that “[a] healthy life is not possible without healthy soils.” … Continue reading →