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October 13, 2020

Waterless world

For decades, everyone from the United Nations to the New York Times quoted the same agricultural statistic: “70 percent of all the world’s food is produced by small-scale farmers.” Working in international development in places like Cambodia...

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Water

Small-scale farmers harvest eggplant from their fields in Bangladesh in 2018.

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October 12, 2020

Ceres2030 offers path to ending world hunger within decade

The results are synthesized in 10 new research papers – authored by 77 scientists, researchers and librarians in 23 countries – as part of Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger. The project is headquartered at Cornell, with partners...

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Agriculture

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October 7, 2020

USDA team honored with gene stewardship award from Cornell's BGRI

A research team from the United States earned the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) 2020 Gene Stewardship award for their pioneering work protecting global wheat crops from vulnerabilities to fungal pathogens that threaten global food...

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School of Integrative Plant Science
Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

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September 24, 2020

Striking pay dirt: Cornell soil soars to the space station

Morgan Irons is about to help make space-exploration history – and all she needed was a shovel and some dirt. Irons, a doctoral student in soil and crop sciences, will see the soil she scooped from a Cornell farm organic plot launch into space...