- "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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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 →
Resource Trade-Offs in an Interconnected World
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School, currently on the job market. Sylvia Wood is a postdoctoral fellow with Bioversity International. Both were members of the Junior Researcher Task Force at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security following theme … Continue reading →
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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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What encourages the purchase of a fuel-efficient cookstove?
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. In a previous post, I discussed how daily cooking produces smoke that is killing millions of people every year in developing countries. One … Continue reading →
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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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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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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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 →
What are the environmental impacts of index-based livestock insurance?
Russell Toth is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s School of Economics and an alumnus of Cornell’s Economics Department. The Pastoralist Livelihood Migrant pastoralists on the arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) of East Africa are among the poorest and … Continue reading →