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Tanzanian farmers boost diets with sustainable methods

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  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Development
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Crops
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The Manager - August 2025

… strategies include rendering, incineration, burial, and composting. Each approach has different benefits, drawbacks, …

Lawn Weeds

Evergreen idea turns biomass DNA into degradable materials

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  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Plants
  • Biology
  • Environment
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Cornell donates 37 tons of produce to fight food insecurity

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  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
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Growing tomatoes

Biosolids

Fruit Flies

Bindweeds

… seeds are more resistant to elevated temperatures during composting than other weed species and can persist in … D. Salisbury, and E. W. Chenault.  1998.  High temperature composting of cattle feedlot manure kills weed seed.   …

Toward Sustainability Foundation grants