Food & Agriculture

Highlighting our wide-ranging interests and involvement in the business of food and agriculture.

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Johnson BusinessFeed

Advancing Agriculture: How Ponsi Trivisvavet Helps Improve the Global Food System

At Eclectic Convergence, Ponsi Trivisvavet, MBA ’99, CEO of Inari, shared her insights on leadership, innovation, and the complexities of improving agriculture.

Photo of hands holding apples above a bushel basket.
Dyson BusinessFeed

Messaging May Overcome Bias Against Gene-Edited Foods

Consumers are less resistant to gene-edited ingredients when they learn about the technology’s health and environmental benefits.

Martina Pablo Pablo in the Beck Center Atrium with the Mayan coffee she is roasting in Ithaca.
Nolan BusinessFeed

Hospitality Student Markets Coffee From Her Rural Guatemalan Village

Indigenous student brings fair-trade coffee to Ithaca while empowering her Mam parents and neighbors to command a better price for their beans.

Mary McGarry-Newman sells organic heirloom tomatoes, garlic and other vegetables and fruits at the Ithaca Farmers Market.
Dyson BusinessFeed

The Price is Right: Market Reports Help NYS Farmers Set Optimal Prices

For the first time, NYS farmers can see prices and sales for meat and produce at farmers markets around the state, thanks to a Dyson team.

Cattle stand in a field of wheat in a golden sunset.
Dyson BusinessFeed

Report: Climate change compounds agriculture’s environmental impact

Environmental harms from agriculture are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a comprehensive report published in Science.

head and shoulders photo of Jorge Bouras with the 10 Under 10 graphic identifier overlaid on the side of the photo.
Nolan BusinessFeed

Dos Amigos Founder Jorge Bouras Believes in Business Making Life Better

10 Under 10 honoree Jorge Carlos Bouras is an entrepreneur and Cali-Mex cook who believes in helping his employees to reach their goals.

headshot of Shadi Atallah with the 10 Under 10 graphic identifier overlaid on the photo background.
Dyson BusinessFeed

Shadi Atallah Integrates Biology and Economics to Advance Sustainable Agriculture

10 Under 10 honoree Shadi Atallah, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics, is a teacher, mentor, academic leader, and scientific advisor.

Image of Rebecca Phillips, left, a regional dairy processing specialist with Cornell Dairy Foods Extension, helps John and Sammi Collins bottle their new high-protein chocolate milk drink in Cornell’s Food Processing and Development Laboratory.
SC Johnson College BusinessFeed

Dairy Innovation Program Nurtures the Cream of the Crop

For SC Johnson College entrepreneurship lecturer Ken Rother, Cornell’s Dairy Runway Program is “very Socratic”–a dialogue to road-test suppositions.

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Dyson BusinessFeed

No, China Is Not Buying Up All US Farmland

Research coauthored by Dyson’s Wendong Zhang shows federally classified “adversary” countries held only 1% of foreign-owned farmland as of 2020.