Kibrom Hirfrfot is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Uninsured risk exposure and the experience of uninsured shocks in…
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…
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…
Call for abstracts: Second International Conference on Global Food Security
Leah Bevis is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. The…
What are the environmental impacts of index-based livestock insurance?
Russell Toth is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s School of Economics and an alumnus of Cornell’s Economics Department. …
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…
Job announcement: Impact evaluation opportunity in Mozambique
Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. I would like to bring…
Improved poverty targeting through machine learning (part 2)
Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School As discussed in a prior post, the objective of proxy means…
Improved poverty targeting through machine learning
Linden McBride is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School Accurate targeting is crucial to the success of food security…
Creative chaos: A review of Ben Ramalingam’s “Aid on the Edge of Chaos”
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. According to Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom “Practitioners and scholars…