This summer internship opportunity in India may be of special interest to students in departments like government, economics, international relations, development studies, health, nutrition, human ecology, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, South Asian studies, history, etc. Cornell University undergraduates and graduate students are welcome to apply. Preference is given to students returning to Cornell in the fall (e.g. Juniors and first year grad students). Apply…

Erin Kelly is a Communications Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women. This is a re-post of her piece which originally appeared on the News & Commentary section of the ICRW website. The International Center for Research on Women is proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in…

On January 20th, 2016, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) awarded Dr. Soumya Gupta with the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research, which honors the work of an up-and-coming research focused on alleviating gender inequality. Dr. Gupta’s work focuses on the linkages between agriculture systems and women’s empowerment and in…

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is proud to announce the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research. Dr. Soumya Gupta – the first TCI Scholar to complete her Ph.D. in our program and currently a Post-doctoral Associate with Tata-Cornell – was selected for this award in January…

By Megan Witwer  Over the past 50 years, the Green Revolution in India has ushered in new technologies that enhanced the productivity of staple grains and transformed the country’s agricultural landscape. As diverse farmlands were converted to monoculture fields of wheat, maize and rice, land dedicated to micronutrient-rich food crops diminished. While this transformation has helped…

From the 14th-16th of December 2015, the TARINA Consortium met for the first time in New Delhi to discuss and agree on areas of intervention, research and activities that will be carried out under the project’s three main objectives.

The application period for the TCi Summer Internship Program is open!  The application packet can be accessed here.  The deadline to apply is January 19th, 2016 (day after MLK day).    About TCi: TCi is the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative.  It is a long-term, multidisciplinary research program. TCi focuses on policy analysis and the design and evaluation of innovative interventions linking agriculture,…

News of the $13.4 grant to launch the TARINA project goes global through this news piece in The Economic Times, a widely read, English-language Indian daily newspaper. It is the second-most widely read business newspaper after the Wall Street Journal (*).

Maureen Valentine is a TCi Scholar and a second year Ph.D student in the department of Animal Science at Cornell University. She will begin one year of field-based research in January 2016. Agriculture in India is predominately organized into integrated crop-livestock systems, which depend on a crop-livestock collaboration to sustain households’ nutrition and economic needs….

Having been a farmer or living on a farm for most of my life, without having come across the concept of Soil Health and sustainable soil practices came as a bit of a shock to me – good shock and bad shock. Bad because I was disappointed that I had managed to miss something as…