The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is partnering with the Cornell Maple Program to help New York forests that produce maple syrup meet their full potential as bird habitat, sweetening the deal for both maple producers and birds.
A new study shows how some agricultural management practices in the field that can boost or reduce the risk of contamination in produce from salmonella and listeria.
Cornell researchers describe experiments that help reveal how wild colonies endure mites and pathogens, findings that could aid beekeepers in their struggle to keep honeybee colonies healthy.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Cornell a $4.8 million, three-year grant to fight hunger and improve food security using agricultural science and technology.
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future chose 10 interdisciplinary projects to receive academic venture funds for spring 2011. The awards were announced May 29 and total $662,509. (June 1, 2011)
To improve human health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, barriers that exist between the food and health systems need to be broken down, said Per Pinstrup-Andersen speaking at the U.N. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Students have examined the commercial viability of an emerging business: farming housefly larva meal into animal or fish feed. They are working with faculty fellows at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Gilbert Stoewsand, a Cornell food scientist who helped to rescue New York's fledgling wine industry in the early 1970s by debunking shoddy science that attributed health risks wine made from hybrid grapes, died July 4. He was 83.
Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute are studying the bacterium speck, which causes withered flowers and dark spots on leaves and fruits, and can result in the loss of whole fields of crops.