An occasional series with Blum Center affiliated faculty By Tamara Straus On January 3, 2014, Edward Miguel, the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Paige Balcom was in Uganda when COVID hit. The country quickly instituted a strict lockdown—all borders and airports closed, transport stopped, a strict curfew and other restrictions were enforced by the military, misinformation spread, and many people couldn’t get food. In the fall, the UC Berkeley Ph.D. student’s classes went remote, and she dealt with the 10-hour time difference.
In rural Uganda, extension services help farmers apply cutting edge technologies and best practices that promote agricultural productivity and improve rural livelihoods.
Each fall, students of the Global Poverty & Practice minor of the Blum Center compete to win a cash prize for best photography from their
By Tamara Straus Ten years ago, Scott Zimmermann left a career as an oil industry engineer to attend law school at UC Berkeley, retool, and
