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Author: Julia Berazneva, Leah Bevis

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 … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Poverty, Resilience, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

Call for abstracts: Second International Conference on Global Food Security

Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. The … More

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Conferences, Food Security

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.  … More

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Environment, Ethiopia, Insurance, Kenya

Contextualizing agriculture in Africa for New York state farmers

Joanna Upton and Nathan Jensen are Postdoctoral Associates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Liz Bageant and Megan Sheahan are Research Support … More

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Editorial, Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa

Job announcement: Impact evaluation opportunity in Mozambique

Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. I would like to bring … More

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Methods, Mozambique

Improved poverty targeting through machine learning (part 2)

Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School As discussed in a prior post, the objective of proxy means … More

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Methods, Poverty

Improved poverty targeting through machine learning

Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School Accurate targeting is crucial to the success of food security … More

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Methods, Poverty

Creative chaos: A review of Ben Ramalingam’s “Aid on the Edge of Chaos”

Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. According to Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom “Practitioners and scholars … More

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Aid, Public Sector & Governance, Summaries and Reviews

Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?

Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More

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Insurance, Kenya, Labor, Risk

Improving agricultural productivity while sequestering carbon

Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. For the majority of the … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Kenya, Poverty

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