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A young woman prepares a meal in her home in India

News

The 2020 nationwide lockdown India imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions that negatively impacted women’s nutrition, according to a new study from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
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News

The East Africa study area – including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – has experienced deforestation and also contains many large-scale land restoration and land-based climate mitigation programs, but lacks systems for quantifying...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
Max Pfeffer stands in a library to have his portrait taken

News

Max Pfeffer, a distinguished researcher of rural and urban communities and a leader who helped reshape the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for the 21st century, will become emeritus professor of global development on July 1.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
A cassava flower held by two fingers

News

A tropical root-crop that is a daily staple food to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and increasingly being used by small-holder farmers in commercial production, cassava has historically been difficult for plant breeders to improve in...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Lead NY with drawing of New York state outline and plant

News

Lead New York, a leadership development program for adult professionals in the food, agriculture and natural resource sectors, has announced the members of its 19th class.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Two women and three men participating in athletics while wearing Cornell gear

News

The long wait for the delayed 2020 Olympics will finally end this week, and when it does Cornell will be represented by five alumni competing in five sports.
  • Global Development Section
  • Statistics and Data Science
A group examines a harvest of pearl millet outside in a field

News

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement works with smallholder farmers and rural populations in West Africa to develop sustainable crop innovations that address climate change and other social challenges.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
A woman stands in a wooden shack used to store grain

Field Note

Parasto Hamed's decision to pursue an MPS at Cornell opened new frontiers in her career and opportunities to be directly involved in international agriculture.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Leah Nandudu stands outside in a cassava field

Field Note

NextGen Cassava Fellow Leah Nandudu is applying her passion for plant science to improve lives for smallholder cassava farmers around the world.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
Phil McMichael speaks at Committee on World Food Security

News

Phil McMichael, whose decades of research in global food justice has reshaped thinking around rural and international development, will become emeritus professor of global development on July 1.
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Development
COVID-19 vaccine

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A two-year, $200,000 grant from the USDA and the Extension Foundation to Cornell researchers aims to help promote vaccine confidence and uptake in vulnerable communities in eight New York counties, both upstate and downstate.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Department of Communication
  • Global Development Section
Farmland near Ekwendeni, Malawi

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Cornell Atkinson has awarded eleven Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research by 40 faculty researchers representing eight Cornell colleges and 19 academic departments. The 2021 awards span 11 countries on five continents and many...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Statistics and Data Science
Group of students poses with book

Field Note

  • Global Development Section
  • Food
  • Global Development
A factory food processor spitting out chopped salad

News

A team of researchers, led by Dyson professors Chris Barrett and Miguel Gómez, has developed the “Global Food Dollar” method, which distributes the consumer’s net purchasing dollar across all farm and post-farmgate activities.
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
Melanie Stansbury celebrates with supporters on stage behind a podium with her campaign logo along

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Stansbury, a Democrat and New Mexico state representative, was elected to New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, which includes the city of Albuquerque. The seat had previously been held by Deb Haaland, who now is serving as the U.S. secretary...
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change
  • Global Development

News

Young trained as an anthropologist at a time when applied international work was first emerging after World War II. At Cornell he pushed forward new sociological concepts and comparative research designs to better understand rural communities...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Community members in rural Artibonite working together to plant hundreds of tree seedlings

News

The 2021 International Conference on Community-Based Service-Learning in Borneo brings together students, faculty and community partners on June 14-15 to reflect on the process and experience of service-learning partnerships and community-based...
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Global Development
A student working in a hallway

News

The College of Engineering student found her academic footing and forged a new major as a junior with help and inspiration from Drew Margolin, associate professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Close up shot of a hand holding a mobile phone

News

As COVID-19 bore down on New York state, the Cornell Farmworker Program used mobile phone technology to provide rapid guidance and clear health information in multiple languages to the state’s farmworkers. Now, new federal funding will expand the program and further integrate the initiative with Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE).
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Yellow daffodils outside on campus with McGraw Tower in the background

Spotlight

With the end of the semester in sight, we'd like to take a moment to recognize the CALS graduating class of 2021. During their time at Cornell, members of this exceptional class have explored the corners of purpose-driven science, traveled the...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Food Science