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Michael Moss Inspires NY Youth Institute Students to Question Food Giants
On a drizzling and cloudy March 20 morning at Cornell University, most of campus looked scant. But on the first floor of Toni Morrison Hall, nearly 100 high school students dressed in suits and blazers flipped through notes and downed cups of...
Charles Midega (left) and Roy Odawa display the Kontiki kiln they modified to make biochar from human feces. Credit: Rebecca Nelson

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Recycling excreta as fertilizer in Kenya transforms ‘disgusting’ to ‘beautiful’

Cornell researchers and Kenyan partners have developed a fertilizer made from human excreta. The product improves soil health and food production, while preventing pollution in informal settlements and the aquatic environment.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
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Animal and human waste could slash synthetic fertilizer use in US

Waste could fulfill 102% of nitrogen and 50% of phosphorus needs for the nation’s agriculture, and significant amounts could be distributed locally and sustainably.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Yoselyn Hernández Chaves (left), master's student in applied economics and management, studied consumer and industry preferences on red beans in Costa Rica last summer.

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Einaudi travel grants send grad students abroad

Eighty-three graduate students travelled internationally for fieldwork last summer with the support of research travel grants from the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Their work sent them to every continent except Antarctica and...

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
Researchers have found that enhanced rock weathering – which uses rock dust to sequester carbon in soil - could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

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Widespread ‘enhanced rock weathering’ could slow global warming

One of the most recent technologies for sequestering carbon, enhanced rock weathering could remove up to a gigaton of carbon by 2100 if adopted globally.

  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Global Development Section
  • Climate Change

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Field Note

From Cornell to the UN with Sofia Herrera ’27
Sofia Herrera ’27, a global development major from Panama City, Panama, shares her experience serving her home country as a summer intern with the United Nations. Why I chose this path This summer, I had the privilege of interning at the...
  • Global Development
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Field Note

Lauren Chuhta ’26: Fostering connection at the forefront of global change
Meet Lauren Chuhta ’26, a double major in Global Development and Communication at Cornell CALS. Before coming to Cornell, Lauren explored local and global food security challenges through experiences with FFA and the World Food Prize Foundation...
  • Department of Communication
  • Global Development Section
  • Communication
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Field Note

In the field: Empowering farmers through agroforestry, carbon markets
Meet Seongmin Shin , a Ph.D. candidate in Development Studies at Cornell University with a deep commitment to environmental sustainability at the nexus of climate change, the carbon market, and agroforestry. Recently recognized with the IUFRO...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Field Note

Jensen Njagi ’25: Inspired by a cause to turn waste into value
As a Laidlaw scholar , Jensen Njagi ’25 spent the summer doing community-based translational research in his home country of Kenya. As a Global Development major, Jensen is driven by a purpose to improve community health while considering the...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
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Field Note

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...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

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