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Tag: Food and Agriculture

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

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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

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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

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Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Uganda

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

The drivers of index-based livestock insurance demand in southern Ethiopia

Kazushi Takahashi is an associate professor at Sophia University, Japan, and a former visiting fellow at Cornell’s Dyson School. Pastoralists … More

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Ethiopia, Food and Agriculture, Insurance, Risk

How (pre-2007) Kenya represents an alternative approach to fertilizer subsidies

Megan Sheahan works at a new start-up social enterprise, Precision Agriculture for Development, and is a former Research Support Specialist … More

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Food and Agriculture, Kenya, Public Sector & Governance, Technology

Gender research beyond fairy tales: we can still do more and better

Isabel Lambrecht is an Associate Research Fellow at IFPRI’s office in Ghana and a former visiting scholar at Cornell’s Dyson … More

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DRC, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Technology

Smallholder farmers’ perceptions and actions in response to violence

Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market.  Violence associated … More

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Conflict, Food and Agriculture, Mexico, Migration, Risk

Geo-spatial data repository for agricultural economists

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

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Food and Agriculture, Methods

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

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