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Tag: Food and Agriculture

Working together on agriculture, nutrition, and health linkages

Cecilia Gonzalez is the Sustainable Agriculture Program Manager at Control Union. Ramadhani Abdallah Noor is an Aspen New Voices Fellow … More

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Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Health, Summaries and Reviews

Can we climate-proof global food systems?

Pinki Mondal is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at the Earth … More

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Climate Change, Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Summaries and Reviews

How can the world feed 9 billion people?

Aurélie Harou is a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Agriculture and Food Security Center and the International … More

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Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Summaries and Reviews, Technology

Proving Malthus wrong, one farm at a time

Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Danielle Niedermaier is the Feed the Future Evaluation Specialist at … More

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Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Summaries and Reviews

Gender differences in sharing between spouses

Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought … More

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Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Gender, India

Are cash-crop growing farmers better off?

Aurélie Harou is a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Agriculture and Food Security Center. Walking through the … More

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DRC, Food and Agriculture, Ghana, Risk, Technology

Africa’s hidden underemployment sink*

Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Labor productivity in … More

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Comparative Studies of Countries, Food and Agriculture, Labor, Sub-Saharan Africa

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

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 … More

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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 … More

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Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

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"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."
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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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