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Author: Mary Kate Wheeler

The Role of Andean Indigenous Crops in Climate Adaptation and Food Security in the Mantaro Valley of Central Peru

Mary Kate Wheeler is a Master’s student in Cornell’s Dyson School. Her research is supported by the Atkinson Center for … More

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El Papel de los Cultivos Andinos para la Adaptación al Cambio Climático y la Seguridad Alimentaria en el Valle del Mantaro del Centro del Perú

Mary Kate Wheeler es estudiante de Maestría en la Escuela Dyson de Cornell. Su investigación es apoyada por el Centro … More

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Climate Change, Food Security, Nutrition, Peru

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 … More

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Environment, Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Tanzania

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 … More

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Ethiopia, Food and Agriculture, Insurance, Risk

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 … More

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Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Public Sector & Governance, Technology

Gender in rural finance: Evidence from China

Xin Gao is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent … More

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China, Finance, Gender, Migration, Risk

What happens when cash transfers end? Sustained impacts on productive investments in Niger

Quentin Stoeffler is a Post-doctoral Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. … More

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Job Market Paper, Niger, Social

Should bureaucrats in capital cities decide exactly how much aid a villager receives?

Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Who should have … More

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Aid, Ethiopia, Job Market Paper, Poverty, Public Sector & Governance

Gender research beyond fairy tales: we can still do more and better

Isabel Lambrecht is an Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI’s office in Ghana and a former visiting scholar at Cornell’s Dyson … More

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DRC, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Technology

Smallholder farmers’ perceptions and actions in response to violence

Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market.  Violence associated … More

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Conflict, Food and Agriculture, Mexico, Migration, Risk

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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