Our Work
Meeting the nutritional needs of all those living today without compromising the wellbeing of future generations requires holistic thinking about the interconnected systems of agriculture, aquaculture, wild food harvest, and their home ecosystems. Cornell Atkinson is bringing together Cornell’s core strengths in these areas with like-minded external partners to contribute to long-term, large-scale progress, one solution at a time.
Projects
This program will help accelerate the development of finance and insurance innovations to invest in practices that improve resilience to extreme weather.
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Field to Market welcomed 29 individuals to the inaugural cohort of the Resilient Futures Leadership Program: Financing Sustainable Agriculture. Developed in partnership with Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, this experience is designed to equip professionals in the finance, agriculture, and sustainability sectors with the skills to scale sustainable agriculture practices.
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Accelerating adoption of regenerative agriculture practices across the Great Lakes basin by developing transition loan products and services to facilitate the transition from conventional to regenerative agriculture.
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Reducing methane emissions is a critical component of new global commitments to reduce planetary warming, and Cornell researchers are developing tools and strategies to reduce emissions, particularly in the agriculture sector.
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Ruminant Farm Systems (RuFaS) is a next-generation, whole-farm model that simulates dairy farm production and environmental impact. We are using modern modular coding and development practices to build a flexible, adaptable, interoperable research and decision-support tool for sustainable ruminant production.
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Cornell University, through Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s food security working group, in collaboration with the journal Nature Sustainability and with the participation of its sister journal, Nature Food, convened a year-long expert panel on ‘Innovations to build sustainable, equitable, inclusive food value chains.’ The panel released its report and summary.
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IFSS portal aims to provide a space to describe, connect and collaborate around innovative solutions for food systems challenges.
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Fellow Walter De Jong's (Cornell CALS) research centers around the genetic improvement of potato, both by conventional and molecular genetic means. To support breeding, he isolates and characterizes genes responsible for economically important potato traits.
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