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A new mapping approach piloted by Cornell researchers could help policymakers identify where people live in extreme poverty and target resources more effectively.
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Healthy forests can help mitigate extreme weather and improve agricultural production.
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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...
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As a kid, Ben Quint loved maps. It’s almost literary, atlases in a Pittsburgh living room evolving into first-hand explorations. But it’s true—Ben has both the baby pictures and the curriculum vitae to prove it. Now a sophomore in Global...
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Ijeoma Seraphie Obiedelu, a peacebuilder whose work seeks to innovatively confront gender-based inequalities and violence in Nigeria, earned the 2025 Ronny Adhikarya Niche Award (RANA), the Department of Global Development announced today. The...
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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