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Appropriating on Facebook: how to share during fieldwork

Lua Wilkinson is a PhD candidate in Nutrition at Cornell University. Confession: I have posted pictures on Facebook during fieldwork for…

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Editorial

Year of Soils 2015: Climate change and ecosystem services

Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. In our previous posts we discussed how the quality and…

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture

Measuring hope: Lessons from rural Myanmar

Jeffrey Bloem is a Master’s student in Michigan State University’s Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics. Follow him on…

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Behavioral Economics, Fieldwork, Human Capital, Methods, Myanmar

What encourages the purchase of a fuel-efficient cookstove?

Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. In a previous…

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Environment, Gender, Technology, Uganda

From the top to the bottom of India’s MGNREGA in one week

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. In early June, I traveled to India to present…

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, India, Labor, Public Sector & Governance

Agricultural input use in Africa – Revisiting our meager evidence base*

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. One of the most common assumptions underlying current policy…

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Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

My four top learnings from surveying high school students in eastern India

Tanvi Rao is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Dyson School. She is also a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture…

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Education, Fieldwork, India

AERE 2015: Environment and Development

Julia Berazneva and Andrew Simons are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. We attended our first conference of the summer in…

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Conferences, Summaries and Reviews

Job announcements: Research positions with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi)

Jessica Ames is the Program Manager at the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative. Follow on Twitter @TataCornell. I am pleased to announce…

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Food and Agriculture, India, Nutrition

From pastoralists to Mechanical Turks: Using the crowd to validate crowdsourced data

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

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Environment, Fieldwork, Kenya

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