India’s Rural Transformation and Rising Obesity Burden
By Anaka Aiyar, Andaleeb Rahman, and Prabhu Pingali
World Development, Volume 138, February 2021… Read more
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Exploring Aflatoxin Contamination and Household-Level Exposure Risk in Diverse Indian Food Systems
By Anthony Wenndt, Hari Kishan Sudini, Prabhu Pingali, and Rebecca Nelson
PLOS One, Online: October 26, 2020… Read more
Are Women in Rural India Really Consuming a Less Diverse Diet?
By Soumya Gupta, Naveen Sunder, and Prabhu Pingali
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Online: August 2020… Read more
Essays On K-12 Education in Developing Countries – Causes, Consequences and Impediments
By Naveen Sunder, Cornell University, 2019
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This dissertation focusses on the causes and consequences of low human capital accumulation among children and adolescents in developing countries in Asia and Africa. My analysis is divid… Read more
Pathways from Agriculture to Nutrition in India: The Role of Women’s Time Trade-Offs and Empowerment
By Vidya Vemireddy, Cornell University, 2019
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Agriculture plays a key role in improving nutrition as a significant proportion of the malnourished population lives in rural areas and depends on smallholder agriculture for their sust… Read more
Changes in Men’s and Women’s Economic Roles in Rural Indian Households, 2009-2014
By Amit Anshumali, Cornell University, 2019
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The purpose of my dissertation research is to examine the effect of men’s non-farm employment on women’s economic roles in rural India, as mediated by class, caste, and education. The main h… Read more
In Vitro Digestion Methods to Estimate Forage Quality and Applied Research on Goat Feeding Systems in Odisha, India
By Maureen Valentine, Cornell University, 2018
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Measuring forage quality reliably in the laboratory and field is of crucial importance because livestock nutrition is a defining component of system productivity and accounts for a su… Read more
Essays on Human Capital & Development in India
By Tanvi Rao, Cornell University, 2017
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This dissertation consists of three independent research papers, tied under a broad research agenda of “human capital” in India. Chapters 1 and 2 are closely related and both utili… Read more
Three Essays On Agriculture – Nutrition Linkages: Women’s Iron Status and Empowerment In Agriculture In Chandrapur, India
By Soumya Gupta, Cornell University, 2016
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Agriculture based approaches are increasingly being propagated for tackling micronutrient malnutrition. Women constitute 30% of the agricultural labor force in India. However very litt… Read more
Using Simple Models to Characterize Long-Term Trends and Variability in Regional Hydrology
By Asha Sharma, Cornell University, 2014
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The three studies presented here demonstrate the utility of simple models in identifying long-term trends and variability in regional hydrology. In the first study, three new methods were us… Read more
Pandemic Prices: COVID-19 Price Shocks and Their Implications for Nutrition Security in India
By Payal Seth, Bhaskar Mittra, and Prabhu Pingali
In Pandemic Prices: Price Shocks from COVID-19 and Their Implications on Nutrition Security in India, TCI researchers assess the impact that India’s COVID-19 lockdown had on Indian food prices. They demonstrate tha… Read more
Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020: Leveraging Agriculture to Achieve Zero Hunger
By Kiera Crowley and Andaleeb Rahman
TCI’s 2020 report on Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India (FAN 2020) provides an analysis of India’s progress towards achieving the second sustainable development goal—zero hunger. Using district-level data and maps, th… Read more
Pandemics and food systems – towards a proactive food safety approach to disease prevention & management
By Anaka Aiyar and Prabhu Pingali
Food Security, Online: July 2020… Read more
Market Access, Production Diversity, and Diet Diversity: Evidence From India
By Soumya Gupta, Naveen Sunder, and Prabhu Pingali
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Online: June 2020… Read more
Transforming Smallholder Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs
By Mathew Abraham and Prabhu Pingali
In S. Gomez y Paloma, L. Riesgo, and K. Louhichi (Eds.) The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security, Springer Nature 2020.… Read more
Climate Change and Food Security
By Mathew Abraham and Prabhu Pingali
In P. Gustafson, P. Raven, and P. Ehrlich (Eds.) Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity: Problems and Prospects, The University of Missouri Press 2020.… Read more
Soil Health Assessment
By Kavya Krishnan, Robert Schindelbeck, K. S. M. Kurtz, and Harold van Es
In A. Rakshit, S. Ghosh, S. Chakraborty, V. Philip, and A. Datta (Eds.) Soil Analysis: Recent Trends and Applications, Springer Singapore 2020.… Read more
Implementers of law or policymakers too?
By Amrutha Jose Pampackal
In S. Pellissery, B. Mathew, A. Govindjee, and A. Narrain (Eds.) Transformative Law and Public Policy, Chapter 9, Routledge India 2019.… Read more
The Green Revolution and Crop Biodiversity
By Prabhu Pingali
In P. Dasgupta, P. H. Raven, and A. L. McIvor (Eds.) Biological Extinction: New Perspectives, Chapter 6. University of Cambridge Press 2019.… Read more
Maternal and Child Health in Districts of India: Deprivation and Disparities
By Basant Kumar Panda, Udaya S. Mishra, and Shubh Swain
In Sanjay K. Mohanty, Udaya S. Mishra, Rajesh K. Chauhan (Eds.) The Demographic and Development Divide in India, Chapter 7. Springer Nature 2019.… Read more
Nutritional Outcomes of Empowerment and Market Integration for Women in Rural India
By Soumya Gupta, Vidya Vemireddy, and Prabhu Pingali
Food Security, Volume 11, 1243–1256 (2019)… Read more
Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition Status: The Case of Iron Deficiency in India
By Soumya Gupta, Prabhu Pingali, and Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Food Policy, Online: September 2019… Read more
Adapting the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to Specific Country Context: Insights and Critiques from Fieldwork in India
By Soumya Gupta, Vidya Vemireddy, Dhiraj Singh, and Prabhu Pingali
Global Food Security, Volume 23, Online: September 2019… Read more
Does Non-farm Income Affect Food Security? Evidence from India
By Andaleeb Rahman and Sumit Mishra
The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 55, July 2019.… Read more
Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
By Prabhu Pingali, Anaka Aiyar, Mathew Abraham and Andaleeb Rahman
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy book series (AEFP)
Palgrave Macmillan, May 2019… Read more