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Jeremiah Lazo and fellow interns working in an agriculture field

Spotlight

September 20, 2021

Lund fellows program supports undergrads and organic agriculture

A new summer internship enables undergraduates across disciplines to learn about organic, restorative and agroecological practices while working at diversified, small-scale farms around New York state.

Global Development Section
Agriculture
Organic

News

September 13, 2021

Stormy Weather, Community Resilience

Communities of all kinds are rocked by environmental issues that test their fortitude and adaptability. Shorna B. Allred, Natural Resources and the Environment, wants to help them build resilience to these shocks. Her own experience growing up on the Gulf Coast of Texas in a county with 30 petrochemical and oil refineries has a lot to do with that.

Global Development Section
Natural Resources and the Environment Section
Environment

News

September 2, 2021

New hub promotes farmer producer organizations in India

A new resource at the Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) for Agriculture and Nutrition’s Center of Excellence in New Delhi will help empower India’s 125 million smallholder farms to take advantage of growing opportunities in the agricultural sector.

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Global Development Section
Nutritional Sciences

A man and a woman stand in a field of wheat, examining the growing plants

Spotlight

September 2, 2021

Global action to save wheat

When Norman Borlaug said, “Rust never sleeps,” he was warning of the emergence of a highly virulent stem rust pathogen that threated wheat crops around the world. First identified in the wheat fields of Uganda, the fungal pathogen known as Ug99...