Food Systems & Health
Last month, Ithaca’s first Farm to Plate Conference was launched as a collaboration between Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming and Cornell University’s Development Sociology Department to celebrate and discuss challenges around “uniting for a just...
Global changes in climate, economies, transportation, and resource use, as well as environmental agents that propel infectious diseases across borders and species, profoundly challenge public health From July 9 to 15, Cornell MPH faculty will be teaching at a...
By tagging a cell’s proteins with fluorescent beacons, Cornell researchers have found out how E coli bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics and other poisons Probably not good news for the bacteria When undesirable molecules show up, the bacterial...
For most of us, milk is our first food, containing everything a growing mammal needs Those nutritional benefits should be harnessed beyond infancy and into every stage of life, according to the Cornell Dairy Center of Excellence, which held its second annual...
To develop new knowledge for fighting economic insecurity in upstate New York, a set of leaders has formed a network to collaborate and share best practices The Program Work Team on Poverty and Economic Hardship, a group of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)...
With the world facing a vast array of food and nutrition security challenges that pose significant humanitarian, environmental and national security risks, a national commission that included leaders from Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)...
A rich trove of once-hidden Cornell agricultural research from journals and other serial publications is now available to the public Cornell University Library collaborated with Kathryn J Boor ’80, the Ronald P Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and...
For optimal yield and fruit quality, apple growers in the United States have long relied on chemical solutions to generate spring blossom thinning to promote the growth of larger, higher-quality fruit by giving them less competition for carbohydrate However, in...
For more than a year, as drought spread across the Northeast, agricultural fields went parched, crops withered, wells ran dry During the worst drought since the 1960s, irrigated farms in the Northeast suffered crop losses of up to 35 percent; for unirrigated...
For food entrepreneurs, the bitter battles between small and large companies are increasingly giving way to collaboration in the quest for better-tasting, high-quality food Companies of all sizes are finding synergies in the face of consumer demand for locally...
Dig into digital agriculture, comprehend plant breeding and biotechnology, and find out how the microbiome may solve food production problems at an agricultural technology and partnership forum June 7, hosted by the Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell...