How do you feed 10 billion people by 2050 without destroying the world? At Cornell’s Digital Agriculture Hackathon, over 200 Cornell students sought to answer that question, developing novel and innovative solutions in 36 hours. Read more

Digital agriculture at Cornell has just been seeded for robust additional growth by being added as a strategic discipline area to the provost's radical collaboration initiative. Read more

Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute have announced the launch of the Plant Genome Editing Database, which they hope will lead to research efficiency and collaborations. Read more

Replicated field trials comparing genetically modified eggplant with their non-GM counterparts in Bangladesh have confirmed the Bt gene confers almost total protection against pests. Read more

Global Leadership Fellows will be in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13-16 to share their stories with U.S. and international policymakers to attract support to advance agricultural innovation. Read more

Mike Gore, Ph.D. '09, professor of plant breeding and genetics, is working on a more efficient way to develop crops that produce higher yields and better nutrition profiles as the world's population grows. Read more

Climate change hits home. A warming world affects the Northeast region, and to demonstrate, the Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions has developed a new online tool: Climate Change in Your County. Read more

A group of Cornell researchers has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to use machine learning to rapidly analyze agricultural and food market conditions, aiming to better predict poverty and undernutrition in some of the world’s poorest regions. Read more

Cornell researchers will tap into genetic information found in more than 700 species of related grasses to improve maize and sorghum, thanks to a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Read more

In response to the call to action for feeding an ever-growing global population, the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture is taking a multi-discipline approach to the complex challenge.  Read more