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.
On Dec. 10, the public can try soil painting as part of a soil celebration led by the Soil and Crop Sciences Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science on World Soil Day.
Educators from Cornell Cooperative Extension are helping the Buffalo City School District adopt its new farm-to-school program, which encourages students to learn where their food comes from.
More than 80 students unveiled their scholarly work at the 32nd annual Spring Research Forum hosted April 27 by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board.
Cornell researchers describe a genetic variation that has evolved in populations that have historically eaten vegetarian diets, such as in India, Africa and parts of East Asia.
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.
Professor Alice Pell, who is director of Cornell's International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD), will assume her new position July 1. (June 10, 2008)