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Kate Chesebrough sits with four youth group members near a small waterfall and stream.

Field Note

Master of Landscape Architecture student Kate Chesebrough spent six weeks this summer working as an urban forestry research fellow with the Center for International Forestry and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya. The fellowship...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
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Field Note

Meet Jeff Kang’acha ‘24, a global development student with a deep-rooted commitment to making a positive impact on food systems and digital agriculture. As a fourth-generation smallholder farmer from Central Kenya, Jeff's passion lies in...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Global Development
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News

Malnutrition of Indian children rose dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.

  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Field Note

After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, Elizabeth Arrazola returned to the United States with a passion to support equitable immigration rights, particularly for unaccompanied minors. This path led her to the Master of Professional...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series Abstract Applications of satellite data to understand smallholder farming have increased as the spatial and spectral resolution of these data have improved. In this talk Kurt Waldman...
  • global development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series Abstract Food and nutrition security is the fundamental base for future human development. Feeding more than a third of the world's population makes food security in China and India...
  • global development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

This event is supported by the Department of Global Development in the Social, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Technology in Development job talk series. Talk abstract This talk charts the relationship between technology, ethics, and...
  • global development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series About the speaker Leo Charles Zulu, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Interim Director, African Studies Center, Michigan State...
  • global development
  • Global Development