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Field Note

Lessons from US agricultural cooperatives for China
The Humphrey PACT (Practitioner - Assistant - Collaborative - Training) Program pairs undergraduate students in Global Development with Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows to work on a research endeavor in the fields of agriculture, rural development...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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News

Cornell Atkinson’s annual Academic Venture Fund will provide nearly $1 million in seed funding to support research teams across five colleges and 11 departments, many with key external partnerships.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Animal Science
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Field Note

Ruhşan Özdemir Çifçi , a 2023-24 Humphrey Fellow at Cornell , is committed to addressing sustainability and food access challenges across Türkiye. During her Humphrey Fellowship, she completed her Professional Affiliation at the International...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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News

The new report, Natural Resource Protection in the Hudson Valley: Municipal Conservation Stories, presents case studies from seven Hudson Valley towns and highlights the experiences, challenges, and successes of elected officials and municipal...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Environment
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News

As urbanization continues to reshape our world, the focus on urban and peri-urban food systems becomes increasingly crucial. The latest report from the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the UN Committee on...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Development Sociology
  • Food
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Events

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Seminar

The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration
Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series Abstract How can we explain the causes and effects of global migration from the perspective of sending states and migrants themselves? Rina Agarwala will present on her book The...
  • global development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series **POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2024** About the speaker Dr. Bobby J. Smith II is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the...
  • global development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Changing What It Means to Work on the Land: Agroecology and Agrarian Change in Malawi Ph.D. Candidate: Sidney Madsen Student Bio: Sidney received her B.S. in 2013 from Cornell University in Biology and Society and International Agriculture and...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series Abstract Developing novel protein sources for poultry and fish feed is a top priority for ensuring food security and economic opportunities in the Global South. Globally, poultry and...
  • global development
  • Global Development
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Exhibit

Join us to learn about collaborative research from students at Cornell and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador! A newly piloted course Culture, Communities, and Development: From Ithaca to Quito (GDEV/ANTHR 2505) is bringing...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Polson Institute for Global Development