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Author: Paul Christian

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, … More

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Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa

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 … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Social, Summaries and Reviews

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 … More

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Firms, Food and Agriculture, Public Sector & Governance, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

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 … More

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Conferences, Food Security

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 … More

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Conferences, Summaries and Reviews

Food price shocks: How do uncertainties affect land allocation decisions?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Food price shocks: Is there empirical evidence of a link to poverty traps?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Deconstructing the risks: A review of Andrew Karolyi’s “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma”

Parul Sharma is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Two factors—the rate of domestic capital formation and the inflow … More

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Comparative Studies of Countries, Finance, Firms, Risk, Summaries and Reviews

Food price shocks: Are we over or under estimating the welfare effects?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Introduction to food price shocks series

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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