Panelists discuss Kenya's tribal warfare, politics and elections in a forum in conjunction with Heal Kenya, a campaign at Cornell to raise money to help Kenyans displaced by ethnic violence. (April 2, 2008)
Several Cornell students are spearheading a project that has planted some 15,000 square feet of bamboo nursery in Haiti for fuel, housing, crafts and environmental restoration. (June 3, 2011)
The Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences New York State Agricultural Experiment Station has launched a new Web tool to help state grape growers identify prime grape-growing locations.
A farmer with surplus butternut squash waste turned to the New York State Food Venture Center at Cornell, which helped develop a new, nutty-tasting butternut squash seed oil. (Oct. 21, 2008)
The Heal Kenya Campaign, which is running through March 28, is intended to raise awareness about the issues in Kenya and provide funds for the Kenya Red Cross Society. (Feb. 28, 2008)
The world food crisis may not be new, said food-policy experts speaking on campus April 3, but it is certainly growing increasingly complex in terms of water, climate, energy and cost, to name just a few factors. (April 8, 2009)
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future's Academic Venture Fund awarded $1.8 million in 2017, with 15 grants to seed novel approaches to some of the world's greatest sustainability challenges.
Speciosa Wandira, vice president of Uganda from 1994 to 2003, gave an unusually blunt appraisal about the state of her country and her region while speaking on campus Nov. 14. (Nov. 16, 2007)
A newly launched insurance program designed by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Sommarat Chantarat and colleagues could help herders in northern Kenya climb out of poverty. (March 2, 2010)