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From pastoralists to Mechanical Turks: Using the crowd to validate crowdsourced data

Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More

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

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

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

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

Call for applications: Junior researchers on social media at Global Food Security Conference

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist, Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate, and Joanna Upton is a Postdoctoral Associate at … More

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