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How can Uber-like models improve agricultural mechanization? In our latest paper in World Development we evaluate two pioneering companies in India and Nigeria and examine the potential of digital tools to reduce transaction costs in agricultural mechanization

"Innovation has succeeded fabulously on its own terms half a century ago, but we need to update objectives and reorient innovation for the 21st century," says Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Fellow and Cornell Dyson Prof. Chris Barrett at #EarthDay global webinar on food security and agriculture.

How can natural resource management in post-conflict settings contribute to positive peace? Stacy D VanDeveer @FarahHegaziand I explore answers in World Development 🆕📰➡️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #SustainingPeace

#SustainingPeace through better resource governance: Three potential mechanisms for environmental peacebuilding 🆕📰⏩ doi.org/10.1016/j.worl…

I am very glad that Dr. Suhyun Jung Suhyun Jung joins World Development editorial team as an Associate Editor. He brings in tremendous expertise in environment and development economics. Look forward to working with him to contribute growing WD's impact on global development.

🥳 🤗 my paper was just published in World Development authors.elsevier.com/a/1d164,6yxDH0…

Just published: Gongbuzeren et al. "Mitigating the impacts of fragmented land tenure through community-based institutional innovations: two case study villages from Guinan County of Qinghai Province, China" doi.org/10.5751/ES-123… #communitybasedmanagement;

This is a remarkable finding: low-cost biomass cookstove in Ethiopia reduces firewood consumption, but also induces considerable health effects – even on an important level: child height. Paper out now in World Development Do we have to update our priors? bit.ly/3ygmOB4

Perspective: Conventional #farming systems are susceptible to various stresses, & #microalgae, #mycoprotein & #mealworm can offer healthy, more #sustainablediets. What makes #futurefood farming systems #resilient? How can their potential be unlocked? nature.com/articles/s4301…

Really chuffed to see our paper online in World Development 50 free downloads here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Come work with me and STAARS at Cornell! New research support specialist opening in my group. Key responsibility is to support the STAARS/STAAARS+ Fellowship program. RA work on various int'l and domestic projects too. Details/apply via link below: (1/2) cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CornellC…

U.S.–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable Development, by a group of leading scientists from the US and China published in Environmental Science & Technology Journals Daniel M Kammen Anu Ramaswami ChuanWu Xi Glen Daigger AAQRL Dana Dolinoy Cipolla pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Flooding and child health: Evidence from Pakistan sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thrilled to share this new paper on inter-firm relations among Chinese companies in Ethiopia's construction sector.

I am collaborating with @gotonura to recruit two postdocs on global change and health inequalities, one based in Cornell Global Development, the other in U-M SEAS. Applications accepted through November 15. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/224…

The Department of Global Development Cornell Global Development is looking for a senior Development Economist. Come and join us! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23530

I'm stepping down as EiC of World Development. It's a huge honor to serve the journal in the past 2 years. Learned a ton from our editorial team members, authors & reviewers. Most proud that I organized the junior reviewer program to help young scholars. Wish all the best to WD!

Our paper @geoDGB @nolte_kerstin, Jann Lay, and Arun Agrawal on the carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush is published in Global Environmental Change. Represents a novel approach to investigate joint outcomes of land grabs authors.elsevier.com/a/1g%7Eb43Q8oQ…