Food Systems & Health
Working in a corporate firm in Argentina while in law school, Denise Frohmann found herself doing a lot of pro bono work, and realized the for-profit sector might not be for her “I was interested in the intersection between health and law, but hadn’t made that...
The federal government has conducted the US Household Food Security Survey Module for more than 25 years The data collected annually from about 50,000 US households helps form estimates of the scale of food insecurity — not having access to enough food for a...
Preparing for firearm hunting season for white-tailed deer, Brian Bird visited a shooting range recently to sight in his rifle – recommended after an off-season, and necessary since he’s switching bullets, to a type he’s using for the first time in his several...
An analysis of beeswax in managed honeybee hives in New York finds a wide variety of insecticide, herbicide and fungicide residues, exposing current and future generations of bees to long-term toxicity The study, “Pesticide Contamination of Beeswax from Managed...
It’s not hard to remember the period of the pandemic when everything from tomato cages to seeds were hard to find And now Cornell researchers are supporting that anecdotal evidence with data Katie Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Public and...
Across Cornell, 56 research projects have received federal funding to explore topics that will support New York’s food supply, economy and well-being They include teaching young people financial literacy skills, assessing the economic opportunities for dairy...
Chronic wasting disease — which affects deer, elk and moose — continues to spread throughout the Great Plains and Midwest Just this year, authorities in western Oklahoma detected the state’s first case in a free-ranging deer After about 40 years of...
In September 2020, an American black bear cub was treated in the Janet L Swanson Wildlife Hospital after being hit a car Six days later, the cub was sent to a rehabilitation center and then released to the wild This could have been the end of the story, except that...
For more than a quarter century, the USDA has been tracking levels of food insecurity in the United States with a standardized tool, the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) But little research had verified how the survey’s questions were being understood...
The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic held great uncertainty Many people faced job losses or reduced incomes, while media images of empty supermarket shelves and stories about dumped milk showcased the effects of disrupted supply chains and stirred up food scarcity...
A College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member is a contributing author to UNICEF’s inaugural report on women’s nutrition, “Undernourished and Overlooked: A global nutrition crisis in adolescent girls and women” Elizabeth Fox '09, PhD '16, assistant...
