In a previous blog, I talked about the changes in the agriculture and food policy at the national level. It is evident that the newer changes in India’s food policy landscape suggest a greater ‘stepping in’ of the state in the contemporary “food regime”. This has been facilitated through various policy and legal processes centered upon the notion of human rights…

In this article appearing in The Washington Post, TCI Founding Director Prabhu Pingali provides expertise on role of mechanization and crop varieties on food prices within the changing food system.

Dr. Tanvi Rao graduated with her Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University’s Charles H. Dyson School in Applied Economics and Management. She has been a Tata-Cornell Scholar from 2012-2017 where she has made exceptional contributions through her research on the multidimensional nature of the malnutrition problem in India. Thank you Tanvi!  We…

From last year, I have been working on my PhD dissertation thesis that focuses on the effects of women’s time allocation in agriculture on their nutritional status.  The sample for my study comprises of 1920 individuals from 24 villages in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India. Primary data on dietary intake, 24 hour time use, anthropometry, health and income variables are…

A more nuanced understanding of how food and agricultural policies in India have evolved over time could be a very useful guide in understanding why nutritional outcomes continue to fare poorly. It is a widely accepted fact that the agricultural sector remains key to improved nutritional status. However, given the role played by electoral arithmetic and political economy factors in…

Now available online, “The bumpy road from food to nutrition security – Slow evolution of India’s food policy” appears in the journal Global Food Security. The paper provides a detailed review of the evolution of food policy in India and a way forward in the transition towards nutrition security.

The Technical Assistance and Research for Indian Nutrition and Agriculture (TARINA) Chapter of the Tata-Cornell Institute’s 2016 Annual Report has been reprinted as standalone report entitled TARINA 2016 at a Glance. This document provides a detailed summary of the project’s objectives, approach, and milestones achieved by TCI over the past year, the first year of the grant. Next year’s issue will…

What are the challenges in designing projects with successful monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems? How do you ensure data collection for M&E is reliable? What is a “theory of change,” and how can it shape M&E over the course of a development project’s lifetime? These are a few of the major questions raised during the…

This journal article by Dr. Prabhu Pingali and TCI Scholar Naveen Sunder appears in the Annual Review of Resource Economics (Volume 9, 2017). Review in Advance first posted online on April 3, 2017. The volume (9) goes to print in November 2017.

In a piece appearing in The Wire,  “UP Shows Growing Importance of Food Policy in Regional Politics,” Dr. Rahman examines the latest regional political developments in Uttar Pradesh and discusses important trends in economics, food policy and regionalism. The Wire is an independent, online news publication based in New Delhi.