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Trading some corn-ethanol land for solar offers ‘tremendous opportunity’

In the U.S., strategically converting a small fraction of land used to grow corn for ethanol to solar facilities could vastly increase energy production per hectare, as well as provide ecological benefits and financial resiliency for farmers.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Energy
  • Solar
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Meet our faculty: Beatriz Willink
Academic focus: Trait evolution, genomics and phylogenetics Research summary: I study why and how phenotypic traits evolve in insects. I focus on traits that often differ between the sexes, such as color patterns, and try to understand how...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Genomics
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Meet our faculty: Erik Enbody
Academic focus: Evolutionary and conservation genomics Research summary: I study evolution in natural populations. I am motivated by questions that help us understand biodiversity on a fundamental level. What are the origins of biodiversity...
  • Computational Biology
  • Animals
  • Genomics
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Large-scale investment in research needed to maintain U.S. agriculture

In the face of climate change, researchers estimate the U.S. investment in agricultural research needed to maintain productivity - finding it comparable to the investment made following the two world wars.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
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Renegotiated trade deal benefits US dairy producers

The United States and Canada have been fighting about milk for years, but new Cornell research suggests recent Canadian trade concessions removed some barriers to U.S. dairy exports.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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Acting Towards Epistemic Justice with Campesina/os in Northern Antioquia, Colombia
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Since first establishing contact in 2021, I have been working in close relation with Movimiento Ríos Vivos (MRV / Living Rivers Movement), a campesina/o movement in...
  • global development
  • Environment
  • Energy

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Under the Patronage of the Sun. The Technopolitics of Lebanon’s Energy Transition
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract This dissertation analyzes Lebanon’s swift shift towards decentralized solar energy in response to the severe energy crisis of 2021. Prolonged fuel shortages and widespread...
  • global development
  • Environment
  • Solar energy
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