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Making strides in novel manure research with US Dairy’s Net Zero Initiative
Cornell’s Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) staff has been conducting research trials on farms in upstate New York as part of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project (DSWR) . In Western New York, the team is working with Noblehurst...
  • Animal Science
  • Field Crops
  • Soil
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Adapting California’s lessons to climate crises in NYS

Alistair Hayden brings his West Coast experience in wildfires and earthquakes to help New York communities maintain health and become more disaster resilient in the face of climate change.

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
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Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Atkinson’s annual Academic Venture Fund will provide nearly $1 million in seed funding to support research teams across five colleges and 11 departments, many with key external partnerships.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Bringing data science to the animal science world
Farmers today need to be able to access and use data if they want to carry out efficient, climate-smart agriculture. But the road to data-driven farming is not an easy one, according to Dr. Miel Hostens, Robert and Anne Everett associate...
  • Animal Science
  • Statistics and Data Science
  • Digital Agriculture

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Seminar

Our Changing Menu: Using the Power of Food to Confront Climate Change
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2023 Seminar Series Abstract Food is loved and needed, it is emotive, and it is deeply imbedded in cultures and family histories. However, not enough people know that climate change is changing everything...
  • global development
  • Climate Change
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Seminar

From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolutions
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2023 Seminar Series Abstract The extremely uneven and inequitable impacts of climate change creates differential vulnerabilities, experiences, responses, and coping mechanisms across the world. Climate...
  • global development
  • agriculture
  • Climate Change
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Seminar

Development Through Inclusive Agriculture & Food Systems - Our Shared Futures
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2023 Seminar Series Abstract The world is at an interesting crossroads where one cannot deny the rapid strides it has made, some interesting parities that technologies like ICT has brought in bridging the...
  • global development
  • Climate Change
  • agriculture
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Conference

Gardening in a Warming World
Gardeners are keen observers of what is required to grow healthy plants of all types and sizes. New strategies and solutions to the problems presented by cultivating living things are often contemplative acts. These actions will hold gardeners...
  • Gardening
  • Sustainable Landscaping
  • Climate Change