Challenges women face accessing agricultural technology took center stage at a World Food Prize side event organized by the U.S. Department of State Office of Agricultural Policy and featuring expertise from Cornell’s Feed the Future Insect-Resistant Eggplant Partnership.
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning has established the Ratan N. Tata Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of the decades-long philanthropy of the late Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, a former Cornell trustee and renowned business leader.
Over 1,200 people from 49 countries convened at the inaugural “Global Climate Finance and Risks,” virtual conference co-hosted by Cornell Atkinson, the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business and the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. This year’s U.N. COP29 in Baku will emphasize climate finance solutions.
Five Johnson School MBA students designed the case, organized the judging and facilitated the Emerging Markets Institute’s Corning Case Competition, “Powering Vietnam’s Future: The Rise of Electric Vehicles,” which attracted a record number of entrants.
Over 70 undergraduates learned career-shaping lessons in the field last summer with support from Global Cornell. Students will share their international work at the November 19 Global Cornell Experience Showcase.
A series of research papers and a free online data dashboard seek to boost the use of biofortification – an affordable, sustainable and climate-smart way to address global malnutrition by increasing the concentrations of essential nutrients in staple crops.
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.
Highly structured management practices are correlated with better productivity and profitability outcomes for companies and countries, an international consortium of researchers has found through a novel quantification method.
