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Author: Juan N. Hernández-Aguilera, Mary Kate Wheeler, Romane Viennet

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 … More

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Colombia, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Methods, Risk, Technology

Call for papers: Conference on Size and Type Dependent Regulations

Cornell’s Ravi Kanbur and the Inter‐American Development Bank’s Santiago Levy are organizing a conference in Ithaca, NY on October 1-2, … More

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Conferences, Public Sector & Governance

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 … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa

Lessons from implementing a field survey in India

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Gender, Health, Human Capital, India, Nutrition

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, … More

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Aid, Education, Environment, Firms, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Gender, Health, Social

Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions

Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are … More

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Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food and Agriculture, Risk, Technology

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 … More

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Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

Spatial trends in Indian agriculture: 1960s to 2000s*

Hilary Byerly is a Masters student at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research assistant for the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, India, Nutrition

Does index insurance make people feel better off?

Kibrom Hirfrfot is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Uninsured risk exposure and the experience of uninsured shocks in … More

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Ethiopia, Health, Methods, Risk

Conducting fieldwork in a conflict zone in Mexico

Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School.  One of the most serious risks a researcher can … More

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Conflict, Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Mexico, Risk

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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