Much academic and policy interest has been generated in recent years to understand how the agricultural sector can be leveraged to address problems of malnutrition in developing countries. For improving nutrition among women in particular, agriculture─nutrition linkages are important, since agriculture is a major employer of women in countries like India. By being a source…

Levels of food loss are product and value chain specific. An important first step in determining methods and metrics to evaluate food loss of perishables was to identify the product (or products) and map the value chains. The objective of my fieldwork this summer was to identify a perishable vegetable important in the Indian food…

In the new PLOS One article, “The role of agriculture in women’s nutrition: Empirical evidence from India,” authors Dr. Tanvi Rao (Cornell Dyson PhD ’17 & Tata-Cornell Scholar) and Dr. Prabhu Pingali (TCI Founding Director) provide empirical evidence that explicitly links agricultural output and incomes to rural women’s nutrition outcomes in India. The pathway from agriculture to nutrition works…

They say “we are what we eat” but can it be that we are what the soil is? Soil forms the foundation of the food we eat. It also serves as the main reservoir of the water we drink, making it the sole source of nutrients taken-in by humans. Naturally, one could argue that the…

“He says orange-fleshed sweet potato has made his family healthier,” my translator, Shaktikar says as I scribble notes in a small notebook. I make sure not to disturb the iPhone pointed towards the farmer we’re interviewing. It is recording every word it can over the sounds of busy village life—squabbling kids, speeding motorcycles, lazing buffalos….

We are proud to celebrate the individuals graduating from the Tata-Cornell program: Maureen Valentine and Prankur Gupta. Maureen Valentine Dr. Maureen Valentine graduated with her Ph.D. in Animal Science from Cornell University’s Department of Animal Science at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Maureen was one of the first students ever to join the…

Deadline update: Apply by October 31, 2018 to attend and present at an upcoming workshop, “Developing Biofortified Crops Value Chains for Nutritional Security in South Asia.” This one-day workshop will explore innovative ways of developing biofortified food crop value chains. The event is organized by TCI, IFPRI-South Asia Office and the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) in New…

We are proud to celebrate the individuals graduating from the Tata-Cornell program: Maureen Valentine (PhD, Animal Science. TCI Scholar 2012-18) and Prankur Gupta (MS, AEM. TCI Scholar 2016-18). Dr. Maureen Valentine graduated with her Ph.D. in Animal Science from Cornell University’s Department of Animal Science at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Prankur Gupta…

This Cornell Chronicle article describes TCI’s current projects and activities as well as the new exhibit designed to mark the occasion of the Institute’s fifth anniversary. Developed in collaboration with Mann Library, the exhibit  “Portraits in Progress: Confronting Indian Malnutrition through Field-based Research Under the Tata-Cornell Institute” will run through September 2018.

The opening reception for this new exhibit was on Thursday, May 3rd from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Mann Library, Second Floor Gallery. “Portraits of Progress” celebrates five years of the Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) and its focus on solving chronic malnutrition in India through action-oriented, multidisciplinary academic research and policy analysis. A collaboration between TCI and Mann…