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Lessons from US agricultural cooperatives for China
The Humphrey PACT (Practitioner - Assistant - Collaborative - Training) Program pairs undergraduate students in Global Development with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows to work on a research endeavor in the fields of agriculture, rural development...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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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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Field Note

Food loss & waste for climate action and reduced carbon emissions
Ruhşan Özdemir Çifçi , a 2023-24 Humphrey Fellow at Cornell , is committed to addressing sustainability and food access challenges across Türkiye. During her Humphrey Fellowship, she completed her Professional Affiliation at the International...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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New report on conservation, land-use in the Hudson River Estuary Watershed
The new report, Natural Resource Protection in the Hudson Valley: Municipal Conservation Stories, presents case studies from seven Hudson Valley towns and highlights the experiences, challenges, and successes of elected officials and municipal...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Environment
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Cornell-USFQ Student Poster Symposium & Reception
Join us to learn about collaborative research from students at Cornell and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador! A newly piloted course Culture, Communities, and Development: From Ithaca to Quito (GDEV/ANTHR 2505) is bringing...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
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Seminar

Environmental Cognition and Smallholder Farming
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

Transforming agrifood systems towards climate-resilient development: A comparative perspective of China and India
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

Redefining Development: Navigating Informality, Automation, and Ethical Choice in Technology in the Global Economy
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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