Tag: Food and Agriculture

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

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 … More

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

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

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

Politics and MNREGA: A limited link in Andhra Pradesh*

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Yanyan Liu is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research … More