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About Erika Styger is a tropical agronomist and the director of the Climate-Resilient Farming Systems Program in the Department of Global Development. The program mission is to improve tropical smallholder farming systems through ecological approaches for greater productivity and resilience to climate change. It is a project-based program...

I combine remote sensing technologies with photogrammetric methods and field protocols to tackle critical challenges in ecosystem monitoring and environmental management. Research Interests My research program examines the spatial, spectral, radiometric, and temporal properties of remotely sensed data to determine how these data can be...

About Rachel Bezner Kerr is a Professor of Global Development at Cornell University with a background in sociology, environmental science and international development. She does long-term research in Malawi and Tanzania, using participatory research methods to test the impacts of agroecological approaches on livelihoods, nutrition and sustainable...

As Director of Cornell University’s Integrated Pest Management Program (Cornell IPM), Alejandro Calixto leads a team of scientists and extension specialists in entomology, plant pathology, weed science and pesticide safety. Together, they pioneer ecologically resilient pest management practices that promote safer farms, homes, schools and...

I focus my research and teaching in soil biogeochemistry and soil fertility management. I specialize in soil organic matter and nutrient studies of managed and natural ecosystems with a focus on soil carbon sequestration, nutrient recycling from wastes, biochar systems, circular economy, and sustainable agriculture in the tropics (especially Africa...

Dr. Awais Khan joined Cornell University in 2016. Prior to taking this position, he was leading a global research program on genetics of adaptation and abiotic stress tolerance, at the International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru. He earned a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland on fire blight of apples...

About John W. Sipple is a professor and researcher who studies how public schools and communities adapt to different policies and challenges. He is interested in how these changes affect the quality and fairness of education for students from diverse backgrounds and locations. He has vast experience working with the State of New York, rural...

I am a tomato breeder working, currently focused on transfer of resistances to biotic stresses, to reduce damage/loss of crop, while reducing use of fungicides, copper sprays, and pesticides. This allies with the development of IPM, of sustainable agriculture and of use of biological controls.

About Mary Jo Dudley is the Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program (a collaborative effort of CALS, CHE and CCE), and a faculty member of the Department of Global Development. She has extensive research interests in immigrant workers, farmworkers, US-Latin American relations, migration from Latin America to the US, and immigrant communities in...