Kathryn Merckel is a Research Support Specialist and former Summer Intern with the TCi program, and has just completed her Masters in International Development. She is interested in the intersection of nutrition and gender, particularly empowerment, behavior change, and child care concepts. She will be starting a PhD in Nutrition this fall at Cornell, where…

“Agricultural policy and nutrition outcomes – getting beyond the preoccupation with staple grains” by Dr. Prabhu Pingali was published in Food Security in its special section series Strengthening the links between nutrition and health outcomes and agricultural research.

Asha Sharma is a Post-Doctoral Associate with the TCi program, where she is working to quantify risks due to climate change on agriculture in India. Her research interests include the intersection of water resources, climate change, and food systems, and the estimation of trends in water resources in data-scarce regions. Asha earned Masters and PhD degrees in Biological…

Attention Young Indian Scholars! TCI is offering a unique funding opportunity to attend the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security, hosted at the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY on October 11-14, 2015. Young Indian scholars (Indian citizens, based in India) who have an accepted paper/poster and who have completed the application for funding…

Dr. Pingali offers context and enthusiasm for The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis by Ruth DeFries. The review “Wringing food from the world” was published in Nature Geoscience in March 2015.

Julia Felice is a Post-Doctoral Associate with TCi who examine national agriculture and nutrition data to elucidate elements of food insecurity that may result from inadequate availability of nutrients in the food supply vs. inadequate or inequitable accessibility of those nutrients to the population. Julia  earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University in 2014, where…

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi).  This blog first appeared on the Economics That Really Matters blog (www.econthatmatters.com). My dissertation research (described in greater detail here) focuses on linkages between agriculture and health. I look at how different farming systems influence women’s…

Emily Bielecki, a Ph.D. Candidate in International Nutrition at Cornell University with Dr.Shambhavi Singh, Community Empowerment Lab (CEL) Project Director, and Dr.Swati Dixit, Post Doctoral Fellow at CEL share their experiences with the insertion of an agriculture module into a multi-component nutrition and child growth survey in Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, where they are studying how agricultural seasonality and…

With thanks to the generous gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this four-year grant establishes Technical Assistance and Research for Indian Nutrition and Agriculture (TARINA), a consortium linking Cornell with university and non-governmental organizations to scale-up our work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system in India. TARINA is launching this month (December 2015).

Hilary Byerly is a Masters student at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research assistant for the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi). The narrative of the Green Revolution in India is familiar to agricultural development practitioners. High-yield varieties of wheat and rice introduced in the 1960s, along with access to modern inputs such as fertilizer and…