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Cornellians take the stage at global food security dialogue
Hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa, global development professionals and foreign governments gathered for bilateral meetings and main stage sessions. Conversations focused on conflict resilience in the food system...
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
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Gretchen Hanson MPS '23: At the nexus of agriculture, education and equity
Gretchen Hanson , MPS ‘23 came to Cornell hoping to build on her international development implementation experience in agriculture and education. When the opportunity arose to spend a summer in Ghana, she did just that. With support from the...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Polson Distinguished Speaker confronts racial injustice through geography
The Polson Institute for Global Development welcomed urban geographer Nik Heynen as its inaugural Distinguished Speaker in the Fall 2023 semester. A Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Cornell honored for work with international scholars

For its work supporting international scholars whose work puts them at risk in their home countries, Cornell has been awarded the Institute of International Education’s Centennial Medal. It was presented to Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff on Oct...

  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Einhorn Center announces new Engaged Faculty Fellows

Twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year, with projects dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Communication
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Unpacking Uneven Findings on Environmental Inequity
Social scientists have done extensive work to understand patterns of distributional environmental injustice—the unequal exposure of different human groups to environmental hazards. Yet the extent and nature of these inequalities differ across...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • global development
  • Global Development
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement Global Poster Showcase

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Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement's Global Poster Showcase
Location: Mann Library 102 Date and Time: Thursday, October 12 from 3-5 p.m. You are invited to a poster session featuring researchers from across the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement's network of Centers of Innovation. Hear...
  • school of integrative plant science
  • Plants
  • Department of Global Development
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Food Security in India: Issues and Concerns
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2023 Seminar Series Abstract The paradox of food security in the Indian subcontinent is of massive expansion in the production of food grain resulting in large food stocks of almost 60 million tonnes, on...
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
  • Agriculture
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The African Futures Project & Resource Inequality and the Quest for Socioeconomic Mobility: The Ghanaian Case
Seminar in Critical Development Studies co-hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract: Every Ghanaian government administration over the past four decades has made substantial investments with the...
  • Global Development
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Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City
Seminar in Critical Development Studies hosted by Cornell Global Development, the Polson Institute for Global Development, the Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract: The millennial city...
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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