Food & Agriculture
Highlighting our wide-ranging interests and involvement in the business of food and agriculture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faculty Cooking Throw Down Dishes Up Camaraderie
The event brought faculty and students together to celebrate the end of the academic year at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.