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Building resilience: a decade of Bt eggplant’s impact on Bangladesh

  • Department of Entomology
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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Private sector engages in Bt eggplant growth in Bangladesh

  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Students explore Costa Rica's agriculture and food systems

Global development students got hands-on experience with topics from labor conditions to trade policies and the production of specialty crops such as flowers, pineapples and coffee.

  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • Agriculture
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Innovation and impact: women entrepreneurs foster Bangladesh resilience

  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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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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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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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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Empowering Household Energy Transition Amid Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Cleaner Pellet-Fed Gasifier Cookstoves in Urban Malawi
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
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