Prabhu Pingali, founder of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, is making progress in his quest to discover why 15% of Indians – nearly 200 million people – remain malnourished.
For the first time, new apple varieties developed at Cornell will be released exclusively to New York state growers, under a licensing agreement with the New York State Apple Growers group. (May 4, 2010)
In a lecture at the American Museum of Natural History April 24, entomologist John Losey invited the audience - especially the children - to help the Lost Lady Project by searching for ladybugs. (April 27, 2010)
Colleagues held a celebration and symposium to mark Per Pinstrup-Andersen’s retirement Dec. 13-14 following 40 years of combating world poverty and malnutrition.
A new Cornell study reports that the gene that gives rice its highly valued fragrance stems from an ancestor of basmati rice and dispels other long-held assumptions about the origins of basmati. (Sept. 1, 2009)
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station will move its grape research laboratory from Fredonia to Portland, N.Y., onto recently purchased land, with more than $5 million of state funding.
A disturbingly different American landscape is on the horizon if immigration reform in Congress can’t provide enough legal workers, agribusiness panelists predicted Dec. 10 at Cornell.
As part of the SMART Program, 22 students spent up to three weeks over winter break in a developing country, providing technical assistance and analytical support to underserved companies. (March 16, 2010)
Over winter break, a Cornell team went to Botswana to help a fledgling natural-food products company that produces snacks from plants in the wild while benefiting local communities. (Jan. 14, 2009)