New book confronts struggle between agribusiness and democracy in California

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The book “ In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California ” by Professor Scott J. Peters and Daniel J. O’Connell, Ph.D. ’11 weaves together the stories of eight scholar-activists who opposed agribusiness...
  • Polson Institute for Global Development
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development

Students teach NYC teens about food systems, justice

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Over the course of 12 sessions, researchers in the lab of Tashara Leak, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, taught 36 teens about nutrition, food systems and food justice in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of...
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food
  • Development
  • Health + Nutrition
Youth participants and researchers celebrate the completion of the program at the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem

Natural climate protection may be written in stone

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The rocky surface of Earth’s geology may provide a buffer for climate change to absorb excess carbon, according to a new Cornell paper in Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Environment
  • Nature
  • Planet
  • Natural Resources
  • Climate Change
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Primates’ ancestors may have left trees to survive asteroid

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Arboreal species were especially at risk of extinction due to global deforestation caused by wildfires from the asteroid’s impact. In the study, computer models, fossil records and information from living mammals revealed that most of the...
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Animals
  • Biology
  • Evolution
  • Nature
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada team earns BGRI research award

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The rust-resistant wheat cultivar development team at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) earned the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) 2021 Gene Stewardship Award for their long-standing innovations and strategies to combat wheat rust in...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Global Development
  • Plants
2021 Gene Stewardship Award Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Cheers! Wine’s red grape pulp offers nutritional bounty

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In a new Cornell-led food science study, researchers now demonstrate how viticultural trash could be a nutritive treasure. The group showed that two stilbenes – beneficial molecular compounds found in plants – can affect human intestines and the...
  • Food Science
  • Food
  • Beverages
  • Fruits
  • Health + Nutrition
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Climate change adaptation requires Indigenous knowledge

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In rural and Indigenous communities with limited access to weather data, generations of farmers, fishers, herders, hunters and orchardists have relied on indicators such as the first snowfall, emergence of a certain plant or arrival of a bird species to guide when to plant, harvest or perform other tasks. But because of climate change, many of these ecological patterns have shifted.
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
  • Climate Change
  • Health + Nutrition
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$3M grant funds cover crop breeding for organic farmers

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A Cornell-led national network of scientists and farmers is developing new varieties of cover crops that are better adapted to local regions and stressors – changes that could carry a bevy of long-term and sustainable benefits for organic growers.
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Organic
  • Food
  • Plants
  • Soil
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Meet our new faculty - fall 2021

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  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
the Ag Quad in summer

Women indirectly hurt more by noncompete pacts

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There are no references to gender in a typical noncompete agreement, but they still have a more deleterious effect on women entrepreneurs than they do on men, according to Dyson professor Matt Marx.
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
  • Behavior
A woman working on a laptop.

Grants fund Cornell AES work to improve lives in NYS

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The 52 Cornell projects that have been funded with a total of $3.9 million, beginning Oct. 1, are administered through the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). They include a project from Qi Wang, professor of...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Disease
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Free online course teaches agricultural resilience

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A new online course opens opportunities for scientists and agricultural development professionals to blend technical skills with the most advanced findings in social sciences.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Crops
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Cornell outreach educators combat pests, support pollinators

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Thanks to grant funding from the USDA, the New York State Integrated Pest Management program is developing new virtual courses to help schools implement plans to manage pests such as rodents, head lice, bed bugs or yellow jackets.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
  • Environment
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Plants
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Collaboration plants seeds for cultural, biological conservation

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Cornell Botanic Gardens and faculty of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP), in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, have joined with the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ to help ensure that the nation’s language and cultural...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Communication
  • Food
  • Plants
  • Crops
Heritage Buffalo Creek squash in a garden

NIH grant will support strengthening faculty diversity

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The $16 million FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) Award will support Cornell’s hiring and retention of 10 new assistant professors over the next five years in three research clusters: quantitative...
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Partnership applies genome search engine to 7,000 grapevines

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Breeding Insight – a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) project that provides cutting-edge resources to specialty crop breeding programs – and VitisGen2 – a multi-institution research collaboration led at Cornell AgriTech to develop new grape...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Agriculture
  • Genetics
  • Food
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