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Prabhu Pingali

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Prabhu Pingali: Transforming food systems in India

  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Outstanding CALS students, faculty and staff honored with annual Dean’s Awards
More than 40 students and over a dozen faculty and staff were selected for their outstanding achievements in academics, teaching, advising and professional service. Because of restrictions to in-person campus events this spring, Dean Boor...
  • Animal Science
  • Computational Biology
  • Global Development Section
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Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces global wheat prize winners

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Agriculture
Elena Setiadarma

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Elena Setiadarma ’21: Taking classroom lessons to the global stage

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture

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COVID-19 impact: Miguel Gómez on food supply chains

Miguel Gómez, an expert on food markets and supply chains, says food supply chains must become more flexible so that goods can be more easily directed to either supermarkets or food service establishments, wherever the need is greatest. Current...

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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LEAD New York honored for innovation, creativity

  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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Professor helps organize county food task force
Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor of global development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, collaborated with three community leaders over the past few weeks to get this countywide task force up and running. The task force is divided...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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New leadership drives diversity and inclusion initiatives at CALS
Now, as students complete the spring semester from off-campus locations, CALS’ efforts to make sure that they feel safe and supported are more crucial than ever. “It’s very important that a sense of belonging envelops our Cornellians who are now...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
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'Just Food' course broadens students' perspectives of food systems
The course, Just Food: Exploring the Modern Food System, benefits from an interdisciplinary pair of instructors: Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor in the Department of Global Development, and Frank Rossi, associate professor of horticulture in the...
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Cornell Farmworker Program mobilizes protections for NY farmworkers

  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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New York’s rural schools prove resilient during COVID-19
New York state’s early response to the COVID-19 crisis contained a daunting directive to its public schools: Shut down now. On March 16, the state ordered schools to switch immediately from classroom instruction to remote teaching delivered...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
Francine Jasper

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Fostering social change through international agricultural education
Francine Jasper is an expert in the field of international education administration. She develops training programs with faculty and other professional resources for visiting scholars and has trained hundreds of professionals from nearly 90...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development

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Cornell University Evaluates Rust2Green (R2G) Impacts: Utica Participation is Key

Project leaders are encouraging all members of the Utica community to contribute to the University's online evaluation before its conclusion on April 12 by going to: https://participant.groupwisdom.tech/project/836/brainstorming . Recognizing...

  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Landscape Architecture

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Cornell experts discuss state of pandemic

Faculty have mobilized their contacts around the world to help Cornell students and friends get home before borders closed. And as students readied to leave Ithaca, they donated blood at Red Cross stations set up on West Campus. These were a few...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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From education to service: David Kay’s 40-year journey
The social tailwinds that lofted me here were stirred by the movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Most important was my undergraduate exposure to the debates about global economic growth and the environment following publication of The...
  • Community and Regional Development Institute
  • Global Development Section
  • Applied Economics
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Getting climate smart in Armenia
“Armenia is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change,” said Allison M. Chatrchyan, senior research associate in the Department of Global Development. “Temperatures there are rising more than the global average, drought is...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Global Partnerships Help Armenian Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
Everything changed when I came to Cornell as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship participant. The Humphrey Fellowship Program provides mid-career specialists from developing countries the opportunity to spend a year at Cornell University learning...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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A hunger fighter empowers farmers with NextGen Cassava
“Cassava is our daily food in Uganda,” says Ozimati, Ph.D. ’18, now a plant breeder working for a national program in his country. “It’s what we grew up with and what we still love.” That food – and the livelihood of millions of farmers like...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
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Experiential learning program celebrates 20 years in India
That question was answered over two weeks in January, as she and 17 other Cornell students – along with a nearly equal number of Indian students – traversed nearly 1,000 miles across India as part of coursework for the International Agricultural...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Study measures consumers’ demands for cassava
A new study examines how consumers and famers in sub-Saharan Africa are responding to new varieties of cassava, which grow better, but lack certain culinary characteristics.
  • Global Development Section
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Food