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Pioneering an inclusive approach to priority setting in crop improvement April 30, 2021 The processes for breeding programs to set priorities are variable. The most developed approaches focus on ex-ante evaluations and economic projections of impact. At the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement, we want to do more: How do we bake in a central focus on social impact — youth employment, climate change resilience, nutrition, gender equality, amongst others — that are inherently intertwined with any part of the food system?  The Innovation Lab, housed in the College of Agric...

Cornell’s Ed McLaughlin sees smaller format stores with secondary warehousing, JIT delivery, and changes in retail-buyer relationships April 09 , 2021 One of the advantages of having done a virtual edition of The New York Produce Show and Conference was that we came out of it with an all-star collection of incredible industry insight. Today, we share with the broader Pundit audience a conversation with Ed McLaughlin of Cornell University. Ed is widely recognized as the world’s leading academic authority on the fresh produce industry and the broader food system. We have also reached o...