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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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