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Whitney Beaman headshot

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Lead NY is for committed leaders in the agriculture and food sectors who wish to step up and make a difference in their community. Whitney Beaman, a member of LeadNY's current class 18, reflects on her career journey from food science to...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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The farmers experimented with practices introduced to them by Malawian farmers and Tanzanian and American scientists, decided which ones to incorporate within their own farms, and met monthly to share experiences and problem-solve. The three...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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The award recognizes Cornell Alliance for Science Director Sarah Evanega, Ph.D. ’09 for outstanding achievement in the advancement of science in the public policy arena.
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
Phoebe Brown participates in a protest

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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Migratory birds are a welcome sight at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, a nearly 10,000-acre refuge and breeding ground for birds and native wildlife. But there’s an unwelcome visitor establishing itself in the refuge in the heart of the...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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“We’re looking expressly beyond the Sustainable Development Goal horizon of 2030,” said Barrett, the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management in Cornell’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
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Mario Herrero will be a professor of sustainable food systems and global change in the Department of Global Development, and he has been appointed to a five-year term as a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. Herrero...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
Leadership development group receives training outdoors

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LeadNY Executive Director Larry Van De Valk reflects on the value of leadership development and professional training as the 35 year old program recruits its 19th class. LeadNY is for committed leaders in the agriculture and food industries who...
  • Global Development Section
Professor Scott Peters

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Historian and professor Scott Peters has dedicated over two decades to examining the dynamic relationships that scientists, scholars, and extension educators at land-grant universities have with the communities they serve.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Group of Malawian farmers pose for picture in a field

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  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Women’s increased agricultural labor during harvest season, in addition to domestic house care, often comes at the cost of their health, according to new research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). Programs...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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The seminar, “ A Pig and a Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement, ” will be led by Monica White , associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her talk...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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On April 15–16, scholars, activists and practitioners from around the world will meet to explore plantations’ deep-rooted legacies – including racial inequality, dispossession and climate change – in a Conversation on the Plantationocene.

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Environment
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One survey respondent reported persuading a local planning board to limit development on a 52-acre parcel with significant wetlands, preserving forest canopy and a biodiversity corridor for animals. Another negotiated a proposed 150-unit...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section