CEV Award Winner: Maralyn Edid
Cornell’s Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) has named the recipient of its 2008 David J. Allee and Paul R. Eberts Community and Economic Vitality Award.
Recipients are recognized for innovative research, extension and/or teaching projects. These awards are intended to honor our colleagues, to inspire others to consider adopting the successful elements of their work, and to encourage recognition of Cornell programs that develop innovative solutions to community issues.
This year, the award is being presented to Maralyn Edid, Senior Extension Associate for Workforce, Industry and Economic Development in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. It will be presented to Ms. Edid at the Community and Rural Development Institute’s Future of Rural New York Seminar on November 21, 2008 on the Cornell University campus. The focus of that seminar will be transportation as a critical component of community and economic development.
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Rural School Associations of New York State: RSA NEWS
February 2008
The Winter 2008 Issue of the RSA News features a letter from Robin Blakely and John Sipple entitiled "Connecting Cornell Research with Rural Schools and their Communities,"
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Duncan Hilchey is featured on North Country Public Radio
January 30, 2008
A recent study of North Country agriculture finds the industry strong. Cornell University researcher Duncan Hilchey says farm income is up, foreclosures are down, and the dairy industry is stabilizing. The region still loses about 50 farms a year, but the composition of the farms that remain is changing. Fruit and vegetable farms are up 6%. Lamb and sheep producers are up 18% and orchards are up 13%. Hilchey is a senior extension associate for Cornell’s Community and Rural Development Institute. He told David Sommerstein that North Country farms are diversifying to survive.
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NYSAC and the Dennis A. Pelletier County Government Institute Hold Orientation Session for Newly Elected and Appointed County Officials
January 28, 2008
More than seventy new county officials went back to school Monday... this time to learn the finer points of being a local public servant.
Country legislators, commissioners, supervisors and administrators were among the local leaders who came from across New York to attend the Orientation for Newly Elected and Appointed county Officials at the 2008 Legislative Conference of the New York State Associations of Counties (NYSAC).
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Cornell Chronicle: Promoting local foods is paying off, CU research shows
January 22, 2008
In northern New York, more food is going directly from farm to consumer, cutting out the middleman and saving thousands of miles in food shipments.
But, "there is tremendous room to grow the local share of the total food bill for New York's North Country region," says Duncan Hilchey of Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI).
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North Country Regional Foods Initiative Begins: Will Measure & Enhance Economic Impact of Local Products
September 2007
More and more farmers in Northern New York are selling the food they grow to local consumers. The 2007 Empire State Poll by the Cornell University Survey Research Institute showed that 78.5 percent of the New York State residents age 18 and older surveyed buy local foods (37.4 percent said they go out of their way to buy local food). But just how much revenue do the direct-marketed foods generate for the regional economy and is there room to expand the economic impact of locally-produced fresh and processed products? These are some of the questions the new North Country Regional Foods Initiative project will answer.
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