Food Systems & Health
Category: The Big Picture Feeding Tompkins Part 3: “Fragile” emergency food system relies on countless volunteer hours Written by Alison Fromme on March 23rd, 2018March 23rd, 2018 Leave a comment This is Part 3 of Feeding Tompkins, an in-depth look at food...
Category: The Big Picture This is Part 2 of Feeding Tompkins, an in-depth look at food insecurity in Tompkins County and a collaborative project between WRFI News, the Ithaca College Park Scholar Program, The Ithaca Voice, and Hot Potato Press This article was...
Cornell Dining will add to its already high-quality ingredient standards by focusing on whole, minimally processed food and transparency in menu items Dining’s commitment to the Menus of Change University Research Collaborativeinitiative helps inform its...
Robin Dando Cornell University food scientists have discovered that when mice are fed a high-fat diet and become obese, they lose nearly 25 percent of their tongue’s taste buds As a result, the mice – through an obesity-triggered metabolic malfunction...
The Land Institute/Provided Dehulled grain and unthreshed seed heads of Kernza, which is the first perennial grain crop to be used in commercial products While most industrial grain crops are annuals that must be replanted every year, a new perennial...
The Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Director of the National Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Program at Cornell University, Dr Robert B Gravani brought risk and crisis communication in food safety to Cornell University's Master of Public Health Cohort Risk...
A major study led by Cornell researchers reveals for the first time that water troughs on farms are a conduit for the spread of toxic E coli in cattle, which can then spread the pathogen to people through bacteria in feces The study was published Feb 7 in the...
Provided From left, Sharon Motomura, Chiedozie Egesi and Joana Norton, pose in front of an international hybridization plot at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, which was planted with high-yielding cassava from Africa that is resistant to viruses and elite...
Despite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds It’s long been known that some plants disperse their seeds by “hitchhiking”...
Kristen Park/Dyson School Elaine Hill, PhD '14, conducts research in one of the 11 independent grocery stores the Cornell team studied For the first time, Cornell researchers have analyzed where Northeast supermarkets source the foods they sell to their...