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Learn how our research in plant and soil sciences is advancing our knowledge and securing food security and environmental sustainability.

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$1.6M supports land-grant research for NY farms, forests, communities

Fifty-four research projects addressing New York’s agriculture, environment and communities have collectively received $1.6 million from the USDA.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jamey Tielens, left, and Ben Brotman consult on a recent brewing day at Liquid State Brewing Company. Brotman says the state’s brewers organizations “keep brewers in touch with other breweries and build a sense of camaraderie.” Photo by Jason Koski.

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As US craft beer industry goes flat, NYS bubbles with optimism

In 2023, craft beer production in the U.S. declined by 1%, which is the worst on record since the Brewers Association began tracking the industry in the late 1970s. New York fared better.

  • Cornell Craft Beverage Institute
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
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World Food Prize panel highlights women’s access to agricultural technology

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Planet
Gracekelly Fulton '24, co-lead of the Sustainable Landscapes team, prepares to plant a wild plum tree outside Onondaga Nation School. Photo by Sreang Hok.

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Medicinal garden at Onondaga Nation School grows opportunity

The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.

  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
A worker dries coffee at Kasenda coffee estate in the Rwenzori region of Uganda.

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Cornell, World Coffee Research launch Coffee Improvement Program

Cornell University and World Coffee Research, backed by funding from USAID, are rolling out a new program focused on improving the resilience and productivity of coffee smallholder growers worldwide.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section

Land Acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York State, and the United States of America.  We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.