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March 1, 2022

Cornell’s UN climate author warns of ‘rapidly closing window’

In a global cautionary tale, the UN’s IPCC has a new climate change report written by Cornell’s Rachel Bezner Kerr and 270 others, to pull our planet from dire environmental ruin.

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Agriculture
Climate Change

Scientists stocks growth chamber with experimental rice crops

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February 23, 2022

GREAT research points way towards more inclusive agricultural systems

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...

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School of Integrative Plant Science
Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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February 22, 2022

Moving from theory to practice: Deepening gender responsive agricultural research skills of NARs in Sub-Saharan Africa

While training courses remain a central focus to the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) program, towards the end of 2021 GREAT training courses were complemented by a call for research proposals for...

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School of Integrative Plant Science
Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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February 17, 2022

Global Development Ph.D. project explores renewable energy, political upheaval

In the summer of 2021, a convergence of political, financial, and infrastructural crises in Lebanon led to severe fuel shortages. Without the diesel necessary to run both the state’s power plants and private backup generators, the country was...