Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. As discussed in our previous post, soil quality influences the marginal … More
Tag: Food and Agriculture
Lessons from implementing a field survey in India
Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More
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
Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions
Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are … More
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
Spatial trends in Indian agriculture: 1960s to 2000s*
Hilary Byerly is a Masters student at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research assistant for the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More
Conducting fieldwork in a conflict zone in Mexico
Leslie Verteramo Chiu is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. One of the most serious risks a researcher can … More
Year of Soils 2015: Why we should care
Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. On December 5th of 2014 the UN Secretary General Ban Ki … More
Contextualizing agriculture in Africa for New York state farmers
Joanna Upton and Nathan Jensen are Postdoctoral Associates at Cornell’s Dyson School. Liz Bageant and Megan Sheahan are Research Support … More
Improving agricultural productivity while sequestering carbon
Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. For the majority of the … More