Skip to content

Frontier development economics inspiring young researchers.

  • About Us
  • Interviews
    • FAQ for Grad Students
  • Topics
  • Food & Ag
    • Food and Agriculture
    • Livestock
    • Food Security
    • Nutrition
  • Health
    • Health
    • Nutrition
  • Environment
    • Environment
    • Climate Change
  • Education
  • ICT
    • Technology
  • More Economics That Really Matters
    • Migration
    • Labor
    • STAARS
    • Editorial
    • Grants, Fellowships, and Proposals
      • Conferences
      • Aid
    • Behavioral Economics
      • Firms
    • Methods
    • Location-Specific
      • Comparative Studies of Countries
      • Mozambique
      • Colombia
      • Somalia
      • Myanmar
      • Indonesia
      • Guatemala
      • Niger
      • Peru
      • Philippines
      • Cambodia
      • Burkina Faso
      • Ghana
      • Pakistan
      • Ivory Coast
      • South Asia
      • Latin America
      • Malawi
      • China
      • DRC
      • Tanzania
      • Mexico
      • Uganda
      • Ethiopia
      • Kenya
      • Sub-Saharan Africa
      • India
    • Job Market Paper
    • Summaries and Reviews
    • Fieldwork
    • Conflict
    • Gender
    • Public Sector & Governance
    • Social
    • Resilience
    • Human Capital
    • Risk
    • Insurance
    • Poverty

Tag: Food and Agriculture

Is good on average good enough? Not for Sub-Saharan African farmers

S. Jessica Zhu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Technology

Anticipatory Migration: Learning about Climate Risk from its Impacts on Others

Esteban J. Quiñones is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Labor, Migration

Agriculture and Risk Management: Lessons from NEUDC 2018

Tara Hammonds is a Master’s candidate in the field of Global Development at Cornell University with a focus on smallholder … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Risk

A Business Evaluation of the Sales and Distribution Model for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya

This post was written by the 2018 Kenya Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team, comprised of Francine Barchett (International Agriculture and Rural … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Food and Agriculture, Insurance, Kenya

Combating Open Defecation through Community Led Sanitation approach in Rural India

Payal Seth is a PhD Student and a Tata Cornell Scholar in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Food and Agriculture, Health, India, Methods, Nutrition, Social

Farmer Learning through Information Transfers in Kenya: Fieldwork Report and Early Findings

David Murphy is a PhD Candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. In a May 2016 blog … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Methods, Technology

Call for concept proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project

The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Food and Agriculture, Grants, Fellowships, and Proposals, STAARS

You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers

Khushbu Mishra is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University and is currently on … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Ghana, Insurance, Job Market Paper

Farmer Learning through Information Transfers: The Effect of Soil Testing on Farmer Demand for Agricultural Inputs

David Murphy is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. A recent blog post described … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Kenya

A behavioral solution to the inverse size-productivity puzzle?

Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School, and beginning as an assistant professor at Ohio State University in … More

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Uganda

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
"Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters."
Theodore Schultz
Nobel Lecture, 1979
Receive email notifications when new posts are added to the blog.
Loading

Contact Us: econthatmatters@gmail.com or fdf25@cornell.edu or hz399@cornell.edu

Know more about our Authors!

Proudly powered by WordPress
Theme: Rebalance by WordPress.com.