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JFK Award winner Farzan Hussainzada finds purpose in supporting immigrant communities

Farzan Hussainzada ’25 was awarded this year’s Class of 1964 John F. Kennedy Memorial Award to support his aspirations to become an immigration attorney.

  • Global Development
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Achieving sustainable livestock production

Scientists publish findings from an analysis of 10 livestock systems around the globe

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
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‘Structural poverty’ maps could steer help to world’s neediest

A new mapping approach piloted by Cornell researchers could help policymakers identify where people live in extreme poverty and target resources more effectively.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Applied Economics
  • Development
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Collaborative reforestation in Malawi supports ag, climate adaptation

Healthy forests can help mitigate extreme weather and improve agricultural production.

  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Food
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A thank you letter to the Humphrey Fellows
Classes for the 2024 fall semester might have officially started August 26th, but for me, they started on August 12th–the day that most of this year’s Humphrey Fellows arrived in Ithaca. My experience with the Fellows has changed my life; the...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Creating Peaceful Coexistence in a Context of Chronic Violence
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Seminar Creating Peaceful Coexistence in a Context of Chronic Violence: Masculinity, Intimate Violence, and Everyday Reconciliations in Post-conflict Burundi with Emily Hillenbrand...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
Mushahid Hussain

Seminar

Through the Prism of Community Development: Decolonization and Cold War Politics of Agrarian Modernization in East Pakistan
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Mushahid’s historical sociology study of decolonization addresses enduring questions of how and why the reproduction of colonial hierarchies of power and privilege in the...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Seminar

Sightings from a Socio-narratology: In Dialogue with the Genesis Stories of Rural White Allies
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract In his exit seminar Mike Bishop will explore the vibrant stories shared with him by White anti-racist allies living in the North Country of New York state. Taking a...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Food Power Politics: Exploring the Dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement
Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series Abstract In this talk, Bobby J. Smith II briefly outlines the key interventions of his book, Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
Emily Baker

Seminar

Reading the Violent Landscape: Agrobiodiversity and Making a Life in the DR Congo-Uganda Borderlands
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Emily Baker’s doctoral dissertation is guided by the central question of how we can read changes in environmental landscapes as connected with compounding crises in...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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