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April 2, 2020

Cornell University Evaluates Rust2Green (R2G) Impacts: Utica Participation is Key

Project leaders are encouraging all members of the Utica community to contribute to the University's online evaluation before its conclusion on April 12 by going to: https://participant.groupwisdom.tech/project/836/brainstorming . Recognizing...

Global Development Section
Natural Resources and the Environment Section
Landscape Architecture

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March 31, 2020

Cornell experts discuss state of pandemic

Faculty have mobilized their contacts around the world to help Cornell students and friends get home before borders closed. And as students readied to leave Ithaca, they donated blood at Red Cross stations set up on West Campus. These were a few...

Global Development Section
Global Development
Health + Nutrition

A man works to take grapes off of a vine as the sun shines against both the grapes and his face

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March 10, 2020

Getting climate smart in Armenia

“Armenia is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change,” said Allison M. Chatrchyan, senior research associate in the Department of Global Development. “Temperatures there are rising more than the global average, drought is...

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Agriculture
Global Development

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March 4, 2020

A hunger fighter empowers farmers with NextGen Cassava

“Cassava is our daily food in Uganda,” says Ozimati, Ph.D. ’18, now a plant breeder working for a national program in his country. “It’s what we grew up with and what we still love.” That food – and the livelihood of millions of farmers like...