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Tag: Food and Agriculture

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 … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Nutrition

Resilience: Who are the non-resilient?

Jennifer Denno Cissé is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. With the growing focus on resilience programming among donors and implementers, … More

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Food and Agriculture, Methods, Poverty, Resilience

Call for papers: Conference on the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces

Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School.  The African Development Bank, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Cornell University, … More

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Conferences, Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Monitoring and evaluating a complex seed system: The African Seed Access Index

Edward Mabaya is an Associate Director at Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development and Research Associate at Cornell’s … More

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Firms, Food and Agriculture, Public Sector & Governance, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

Food price shocks: How do uncertainties affect land allocation decisions?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and a … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Food price shocks: Is there empirical evidence of a link to poverty traps?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Food price shocks: Are we over or under estimating the welfare effects?

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Methods, Uganda

Introduction to food price shocks series

Adamon Mukasa is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy and … More

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Uganda

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

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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