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Mathew Abraham

Assistant Director, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • ma947 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Evaluation methodologies
  • Agricultural value chains and markets
  • Food security in developing countries
Maricelis Acevedo

Research Professor

Department of Global Development

International Research Professor (Joint)

School of Integrative Plant Science

Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

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Jordan Blekking

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • jpb377 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food systems / food security
  • Spatial analysis
  • International agricultural development
Jocelyn Boiteau

Postdoctoral Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • jmb575 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food systems
  • Food loss and waste
  • International nutrition
Natacha Bruna

Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • nrb92 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • (Green) Extractivism
  • Land and Resource Grabbing
  • Rural Livelihoods and Development
Richard Cahoon

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • rsc5 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Intellectual property management
  • Invention & innovation, entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship
  • Technology transfer, development & implementation
Thais Diniz Oliveira

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • tdo27 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation
  • Scenario development/analysis & economic modeling
  • Healthy diets from sustainable, just food systems
Mary Jo Dudley

Senior Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Director, Cornell Farmworker Program

Department of Global Development

Contact

Interest

  • Agricultural Labor
  • Immigrant Workers & Communities
  • Farmworkers
Ding Fei

Senior Research Associate and Lecturer

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • df423 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Political Economy of Development
  • Capital-Labor Relations
  • China-Africa Cooperation
Julie Ficarra

Associate Professor of the Practice

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • jmf389 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • International Education & Engaged Learning
  • Partnership Development
  • Critical Pedagogy
Lucy Fisher

Extension Associate

Department of Global Development

Associate Director of Communications - SRI International Network and Resource Center

Department of Global Development

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Matthew Gibson

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • mfg62 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food systems transformation
  • Degrowth and post-growth futures
  • Healthy diets from sustainable, just food systems
Sarah Giroux

Associate Professor of the Practice

Department of Global Development

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Strategic Programs

Office of Academic Programs

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Interest

  • Decompositional Methods
  • Demography of Inequality and Poverty
  • Empirics Of Development and Inequality
Carlos Gonzalez Fischer

Research Associate

Department of Global Development

Contact

  • cmg295 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agri-food and livestock systems
  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation
  • Sustainability and environmental analysis
Peter Gregory

Adjunct Professor

Department of Global Development

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Interest

  • Global Agriculture and Development
  • Agricultural Biotechnology