Chris Barrett

Professor

Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

Chris Barrett serves as Professor in Applied Economics & Policy Faculty at Cornell University.

938 publications

43,922 citations

104 h-index

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Rising Papers (1)

2025-09-18 · Science · Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Climate rather than overgrazing explains most rangeland primary productivity change in Mongolia

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

41 citations · 45.5x expected for field

Recent Papers (15)

2026-09-01 · PubMed

Dismantling the United States Agency for International Development Costs Lives and Threatens Global Stability.

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-08-21 · Open Science Framework

Transforming small-scale rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa via integration of fish aquaculture in rice production: A win-win-win sustainable solution to poverty, malnutrition, and diseases

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-06-12 · Food Policy · Ecology

Understanding Nutrient - Contaminant Tradeoffs in fish consumer preferences: Evidence from Kenya

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

Kathryn J. FiorellaProf Assoc, Public and Ecosystem Health DEPT · CVM

2026-05-11 · Nature Sustainability · Parasitology

Rice–fish co-culturing reduces schistosomiasis risk and increases yields and incomes

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-04-02 · Science · Ecology

Strategies for achieving healthy, sustainable, and equitable dietary transitions

David R. JustProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-02-22 · ICPSR Data Holdings

The Probability of Food Security: A new longitudinal data set using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Christopher L. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-02-22 · ICPSR Data Holdings

The Probability of Food Security: A new longitudinal data set using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Christopher L. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-02-19 · Nature Food · Strategy and Management

Author Correction: Agrifood value chain employment and compensation shift with structural transformation

Christopher L. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2026-01-17 · World Development · Soil Science

On risk-based poverty traps

Christopher L. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

Heather SchofieldProf Asst, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · GM

2026-01-15 · Geography and sustainability · Global and Planetary Change

Spatial heterogeneity in machine learning-based poverty mapping: Where do models underperform?

Christopher L. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2025-12-12 · Nature Food

Second best underestimates of malnutrition in an era of multiplying food crises

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2025-12-03 · American Journal of Agricultural Economics

The incidence of grocery taxes in US food and factor markets

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

Harry M. KaiserProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2025-11-17

Rice-Fish Co-Culturing for Sustainability, Food Security, and Disease and Poverty Reduction

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2025-11-01 · Food Policy · General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Food Policy at 50 years

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM

2025-10-16 · Agricultural Systems · Plant Science

Understanding the persistence of rice residue burning in northwestern India: A mixed methods approach

Andrew J. McDonaldProf Assoc, SIPS - Soil and Crop Sciences Section · CALS

Christopher B. BarrettProfessor, Applied Economics & Policy Faculty · AEM