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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
BGRI Technical Workshop October 7-9

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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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  • Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Findings will inform the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international guidelines on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Saurabh Mehta and Julia Finkelstein, both associate professors in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Global Development

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Program will offer webinar series, continue other activities in response to pandemic In response to the COVID-19 health crisis, LEAD New York has decided to pause the start of seminars for the 2020–2021 year. Executive director Larry Van De Valk...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Spotlight

Johannes Lehmann, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences, is leading a revolution. Over the past two decades, he has been instrumental in overturning a long-held scientific belief regarding the fundamental nature of soil...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Green is majoring in Animal Science, and Miller is majoring in International Agriculture and Rural Development. The Cargill Global Scholars Program is a distinctive international scholarship initiative that began in 2013, and it offers a...
  • Animal Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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As COVID-19 disrupts food systems around the world, a pivot to more agile and inclusive data collection and analysis is critical to avert widespread hunger, according to Cornell Global Development experts in a comment piece published Aug. 5 in...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Houlton’s five-year appointment, effective Oct. 1, has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and is pending ratification by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. He also has been...
  • Global Development Section
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Climate Change
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In an article published July 27 in Nature Geoscience, Cornell’s Johannes Lehmann and others wrote that scientists should develop new models that more accurately reflect the carbon-storage processes beneath our feet, in order to effectively draw...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Field Note

Inspired by his personal experience as a Black student in the Ivy League, Ben Fields ’20 analyzed how racism, micro-aggressions and human behavior contribute to the academic career of Black students. His research is not only an important...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
A woman shops for produce at the Shyambazar Market in Kolkata, India, during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the spring.

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In the study, “ Pandemic Prices: Price Shocks from COVID-19 and Their Implications on Nutrition Security in India,” TCI analyzed the average weekly price of cereal grains, vegetables, pulses (the edible seeds of plants in the legume family, such...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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The genome-wide association study leveraged data collected from sites in India, Kenya and Mexico to better understand the shared genetic basis of resistance to yellow rust, a tenacious and widespread fungal disease caused by a pathogen prevalent...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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According to a new report from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) that published July 15, researchers have mapped opportunities for India to reduce hunger and improve overall nutrition by reorienting its agricultural...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
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  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Food
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Allison Chatrchyan and David Kay , senior research and extension associates in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Global Development, are studying solar leasing on farmland in New York to better understand the economic...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
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Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, an additional $10 billion is urgently needed to prevent millions more people becoming food insecure, according to a new report by Cornell, the International Food Policy Research Institute and the...
  • Global Development Section
  • Food
  • Global Development
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Launched at the start of this year, Global Development draws on the expertise of more than 60 researchers engaging on issues ranging from agricultural production and gender and wealth inequality to environmental sustainability and climate change...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development