Tag: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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