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MEXUS Unwalled: The UCSD Community Stations
Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series About the speaker Fonna Forman is Professor of Political Theory at UC San Diego and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the...
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • Environment
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Seminar

Challenges to Achieving Sustainable and Just Food Systems: Lessons Learned from the Second EAT-Lancet Report
Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series with support from the Meera Shekar Family Fund About the speakers Mario Herrero Mario Herrero is a professor in the Cornell CALS Department of Global...
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • Environment
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Seminar

Food Systems and Landscapes that Sustain the Planet, Drive Prosperity, and Nourish People
Distinguished Speaker in Global Development: Juan Lucas Restrepo About the speaker Juan Lucas Restrepo is the Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). A Colombian...
  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • Environment
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RANA Prize winner to support women’s mobility, empowerment in Nigeria
Ijeoma Seraphie Obiedelu, a peacebuilder whose work seeks to innovatively confront gender-based inequalities and violence in Nigeria, earned the 2025 Ronny Adhikarya Niche Award (RANA), the Department of Global Development announced today. The...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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New IPBES report offers policy insights on interconnected global crises
A landmark new report, launched today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES), offers decision-makers around the world the most ambitious scientific assessment ever undertaken of these complex...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Climate Change
  • Food
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Distinguished New York high school students tackle global food security
Eight student delegates from the New York Youth Institute joined 162 other delegates at the 2024 Global Youth Institute, an educational conference for high school students hosted annually by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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“Gender, Power and Politics in Ag” book pushes for progress, not buzzwords
A new book co-edited by a Cornell faculty and student highlights the distortion of gender research in agricultural development and calls for transformative changes to the power dynamics and political systems that harm women and worsen hunger in...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development

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Field Note

Sadie Groberg ’24: Advocating for criminal justice reform
Meet Sadie Groberg ’24, an undergraduate in Global Development who seeks to make the world a better place through criminal justice reform. During her time at Cornell, Sadie gained unique insights into the carceral system through her research on...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Field Note

Ojok Okello: Experimenting a model for African rural villages of the future
In the face of entrenched conflict, climate change, and poverty in rural Uganda, Ojok Okello embarked on a bold mission to create the first sustainable rural city in the country. As the founder and CEO of Okere City , Ojok engages with residents...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Field Note

Rethinking the issue of solid household waste in Ethiopia
The Humphrey PACT (Practitioner - Assistant - Collaborative - Training) Program pairs undergraduate students in Global Development with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows to work on a research endeavor in the fields of agriculture, rural development...
  • Global Development
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Field Note

A tale of two parks: Revitalizing the bond between protected areas
The Humphrey PACT (Practitioner - Assistant - Collaborative - Training) Program pairs undergraduate students in Global Development with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows to work on a research endeavor in the fields of agriculture, rural development...

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