When & where

Join us on Wednesdays from 12:20-1:10 p.m. eastern time during the semester in 101 Bradfield Hall. 

All seminars are available to livestream via Zoom. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend in-person or online.

Did you miss a seminar? Catch-up on our YouTube.

Co-sponsors

  • Department of Global Development
  • Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Courses

Cornell undergraduate and graduate students may register for the seminar series as a course: GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.

Spring 2025 Seminars

Join us Wednesdays at 12:20pm in 101 Bradfield Hall or via Zoom.

Thomas Garrett headshot

Democracy: Key to Equitable Development

selfie of andrew bell with sheep

Solar Irrigation Farming and the Jevons Paradox in Pakistan

Headshot of Craig Spencer

Ebola and a Decade of Disparities—Forging A Future for Global Health Equity

Santiago García Lloré headshot

Lessons in Partnership: Supporting Indigenous Leadership and Collaborative Approaches in REDD+ and Conservation Programs

Gay Nicolson headshot

Connecting, Convening, and Catalyzing to Support a Local Sustainability Movement

Headshot of Purvi Mehta

Development Through Inclusive and Transformative Agriculture & Food Systems – Our Shared Futures

Headshot of Gail Myers

Crops of Survival: Black Foodways as Continuity and Resistance

Ernest Rwamucyo headshot

Social Contract Theory and Rwanda’s Model of Post-genocide Nation-Building

Sir Hilary Beckles headshot

From Episodic Moments to the Global Movement: 21st Century Reparatory Justice

Kyoko Shibata Okamura headshot

Feeding Today, Nurturing for Tomorrow: Good Nutrition as Best-buy Development Investment for Human Capital and Sustainable Development

Juan Lucas Restrepo headshot

Food Systems and Landscapes that Sustain the Planet, Drive Prosperity, and Nourish People

Man sitting on a chair in front of a tree

Challenges to Achieving Sustainable and Just Food Systems, Lessons Learned from the Second EAT-Lancet Report

Seminar series gift honors Tsujimoto brothers

The Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series honors Harry and Joshua Tsujimoto, whose parents, Roy and Miki, emigrated from Japan to California in the 1910s. In search of the American dream, the family dedicated their lives to farming. Their resilience carried them through the Great Depression until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Amid rising anti-Asian racism across the United States, the Tsujimoto family was forcibly relocated to an internment camp in Arizona. The brothers, then in their teens and early 20s, spent two and a half years in the camp. Upon their release in 1945, immigration laws in California prohibited the family from returning to their farm. Once again, the family started over. They moved to a small farming community in Elma, New York, thanks to relocation sponsorship from a local minister. Settled in the western New York agricultural region near Buffalo, the family re-committed their lives to farming. Harry and Joshua matriculated to Cornell, where they studied at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).

The Tsujimoto family at their farm in El Centro, California

Seminar archive

Did you miss a seminar? Watch the recordings of global experts who shared their perspective on international development.

November 20: Digital Agriculture in Africa: Innovations, Scalability Challenges & Policy-Intervention with John Babadara, Co-founder and Managing Partner of AceAgric Agritech; Team Lead for Tomatrix Nigeria