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Tag: Environment

Learning about perceived, measured, and estimated soil fertility

Linden McBride is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School; Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College; Megan … More

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Environment, Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Tanzania

Who’s at risk? Biophysical and market forces shape crop nutrient content

Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Worldwide, over 800 … More

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Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Job Market Paper, Nutrition, Uganda

Resource Trade-Offs in an Interconnected World

Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School, currently on the job market. Sylvia Wood is a postdoctoral … More

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Conferences, Environment, Food Security, Summaries and Reviews

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 … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture

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 … More

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Environment, Gender, Technology, Uganda

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). … More

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Environment, Fieldwork, Kenya

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

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

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

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

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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