Elisabeth Garner
Research Associate, Department of Global Development

About
Elisabeth Garner has expertise in gender and rural development with a focus on the differentiated needs, roles, and responsibilities in food and agriculture systems. Before joining Global Development, she worked with organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme, and the World Bank. She also worked as a planner in the Houston region and with Habitat for Humanity in the Boston area.
Her dual-title PhD studies were in Rural Sociology and Women's Studies at Penn State University. As a Borlaug Food Security Fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), her research focused on the gender and social dynamics of regional food systems in Northern Ghana. She also has a Masters in Regional Planning from Cornell University and a B.A. in International Relations from SUNY Geneseo.
Elisabeth is currently continuing these efforts with NextGen Cassava 2020, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, and Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT).
Contact Information
B75 Mann Library
Ithaca, NY 14853
eg65 [at] cornell.edu
Elisabeth in the news

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The Beijing Declaration in 1995 set the global development agenda for gender equality across sectors, including agriculture. Since then, gender training has been a central approach for gender integration in agricultural development. Yet in the...
- Department of Global Development
- School of Integrative Plant Science
- Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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A new online course opens opportunities for scientists and agricultural development professionals to blend technical skills with the most advanced findings in social sciences.
- Department of Global Development
- Agriculture
- Global Development