Tag: Kenya

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

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

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

Learning about perceived, measured, and estimated soil fertility

Linden McBride is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School; Julia Berazneva is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College; Megan … More

How (pre-2007) Kenya represents an alternative approach to fertilizer subsidies

Megan Sheahan works at a new start-up social enterprise, Precision Agriculture for Development, and is a former Research Support Specialist … More

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