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July 27, 2021

Indian women’s nutrition suffered during COVID-19 lockdown

The 2020 nationwide lockdown India imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions that negatively impacted women’s nutrition, according to a new study from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.

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

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July 22, 2021

$1M NASA grant to improve carbon monitoring in East Africa

The East Africa study area – including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – has experienced deforestation and also contains many large-scale land restoration and land-based climate mitigation programs, but lacks systems for quantifying...

Global Development Section
School of Integrative Plant Science
Soil and Crop Sciences Section

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July 22, 2021

Innovative scholar and leader Max Pfeffer announces retirement

Max Pfeffer, a distinguished researcher of rural and urban communities and a leader who helped reshape the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for the 21st century, will become emeritus professor of global development on July 1.

Global Development Section
Global Development

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July 21, 2021

Cornell researchers provide new insights on cassava flowering

A tropical root-crop that is a daily staple food to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and increasingly being used by small-holder farmers in commercial production, cassava has historically been difficult for plant breeders to improve in...