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Experts grapple over trust and translation at Polson Institute Symposium
Cornell’s Polson Institute for Global Development held a symposium May 11 exploring how science and policy intersect in driving global sustainable development.
  • Global Development Section

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Jan Low wins World Food Prize

periodiCALS, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 Orange is the new hot color when it comes to nutrition and human health. And thanks to agricultural economist Jan Low, M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’94, and her efforts introducing the orange-fleshed sweet potato into...

  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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$18.5 Million Grant to Boost Breeding of Global Staples

To streamline the breeding of five staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will put modular, open-source breeding software resources into the...

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section