Tag: Food and Agriculture

Anticipatory Migration: Learning about Climate Risk from its Impacts on Others

Esteban J. Quiñones is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison … More

A Business Evaluation of the Sales and Distribution Model for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya

This post was written by the 2018 Kenya Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team, comprised of Francine Barchett (International Agriculture and Rural … More

Combating Open Defecation through Community Led Sanitation approach in Rural India

Payal Seth is a PhD Student and a Tata Cornell Scholar in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics … More

Farmer Learning through Information Transfers in Kenya: Fieldwork Report and Early Findings

David Murphy is a PhD Candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. In a May 2016 blog … More

Call for concept proposals for the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project

The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM), supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), … More

You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers

Khushbu Mishra is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University and is currently on … More

Farmer Learning through Information Transfers: The Effect of Soil Testing on Farmer Demand for Agricultural Inputs

David Murphy is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. A recent blog post described … More