Cornell's SRI (System of Rice Intensification) International Network and Resources Center helped train 17 Haitians recently in how to train farmers to improve rice productivity in the northern Coronel-Dubre region of Haiti.
With demand for global food expected to double, people need to tap unused plants to feed the world in the near future, claims Cornell plant geneticist Susan McCouch.
Two Cornell student teams – a cookstove fuel/biochar group and the AguaClara water filtration project – won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s prestigious People, Prosperity and the Planet Award June 19.
Cornell has signed an agreement with the government of Paraguay to further international outreach, fieldwork and exchange of information and resources.
More than 50 middle and high school teachers were on campus June 24-26 for an International Studies Summer Institute at Cornell called The Cultural Geography of Water.
