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Tag: Food and Agriculture

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

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Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food and Agriculture, Risk, Technology

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

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Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

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

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Food and Agriculture, Food Security, India, Nutrition

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

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Conflict, Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Mexico, Risk

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

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Poverty, Resilience, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

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

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Editorial, Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa

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

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Kenya, Poverty

Revisiting our macro-level views on agricultural input use in Africa using micro-level data

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. Before I spent a summer in western Kenya helping … More

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Food and Agriculture, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

A minimum set of nutrition indicators for agriculture surveys: attempting to bridge the agriculture-nutrition data gap

Katie Ricketts is the Program/Research Manager for Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi), a long-term research initiative based at Cornell University. … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Methods, Nutrition

Politics and MNREGA: A limited link in Andhra Pradesh*

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Yanyan Liu is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Labor, Public Sector & Governance

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