Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More
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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
The distributional consequences of group procurement: In practice (part 2)
Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. In an earlier post I described how in-kind transfers of … More
The distributional consequences of group procurement: In theory (part 1)
Paul Christian is a Research Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Making sure that the benefits of poverty programs most accrue … More
Household survey safari: (almost) Overland from Woldya to Mwanza
Ellen McCullough is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Without data, those of us seeking to apply economics to … More
Resilience: So what is it anyway?
Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Quite a bit of confusion, or at least disagreement, … More
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
Using a big data approach to study daily cooking behaviors in the developing world
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. What are the biggest problems facing the world today? If you … More
The hidden local costs of deforestation in the tropics*
Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. The debate over deforestation … More
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