Funding from the Gates Foundation will allow the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.
A medical doctor fighting the spread of HIV around the world, international legal and foreign relations scholars and a labor scholar are among the second cohort of International Faculty Fellows.
The System of Rice Intensification, a method of growing rice that enhances crop yields and is resilient to climate change, won the international Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security.
The Cornell in Turin summer study abroad program June 2-22 brings students to Turin, Italy, for an accelerated course on European and Italian politics.
“Democratic Trajectories in Africa: Unraveling the Impact of Foreign Aid,” co-edited by Professor Nicolas van de Walle, explores whether foreign aid in Africa has helped or hindered democratization efforts.
Two students in the College of Arts and Sciences - Daniel Young '13 and Mallory Matsumoto '12 - have won prestigious scholarships for graduate study. (April 17, 2012)
Development economist Chris Barrett and his research partners won an award from USAID for their innovative livestock insurance research. The insurance saves nomadic herders from falling into poverty during times of drought.
A Gates Foundaton-funded collaboration to make genomic tools for crop breeders held a workshop last week to solve their "big data" issues to make a massive genomics database for staple crops.
Newfield student Cynthia Ulbing has been awarded an international internship from the World Food Prize Foundation. She is earning college credit working on campus through the New Visions Life Sciences program.