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2nd International Conference on Global Food Security
October 11, 2015
The 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security will be hosted at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA from October 11th – 14th, 2015. The line-up of TCI speakers can be found here.

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Young Indian Scholars supported by TCi at GFS Conference
October 10, 2015
The Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi) offered funding to bring Young Indian Scholars (Indian citizens based in India), who have an accepted paper/poster to the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security. Diversity of perspectives and experiences must be prioritized, especially at a “global” event. We look forward to hearing more about their work! Look for these posters and presentations at the conference: Nambiar,…

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TCi Presents: the Global Food Security Conference
October 9, 2015
The 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security will be hosted at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA from October 11th – 14th, 2015. The conference is jam packed with many excellent keynotes, posters and presenters. (View the full conference program here.) Wondering how to pick? Start with the folks from TCi! We proudly offer our list of…

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Foraging and Body Condition Characterization of Goats in Northwestern India
October 9, 2015
By M.E. Valentine, K.C. McRoberts, and D.J. Cherney TCI Scholar Maureen Valentine is published in the latest volume of The Indian Journal for Small Ruminants. This article is based on research she completed while a Masters student with TCI.

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Event: Challenges and opportunities in smallholder livestock production
October 6, 2015
Padmakumar of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) spoke about his research experiences involving smallholder livestock production in India. He is a livestock specialist currently managing the TATA-ILRI Programme on Enhancing Livelihoods Using Livestock Knowledge Systems. The event was held on Tuesday, October 2nd from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m on the Cornell University campus…

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Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Field Research
September 28, 2015
As a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Initiative on Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University I spent 15 months in India designing and implementing a household survey to collect data for my dissertation. The aim was to study linkages between women’s empowerment and iron deficiency status in three different farming systems (households that were cultivating food crops, cash crops or landless). Our…

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TCI and Dyson School co-host event “15 Months of the Modi Government in India: A Report Card”
September 25, 2015
In this Cornell faculty panel convened by the Dyson School Invited Seminar series and TCI, professors Ron Herring, Ravi Kanbur, Prabhu Pingali and Eswar Prasad presented an economic and political assessment of the first phase of the Modi government. The event was held on Friday, September 25th, 2015 from 10:30 a.m to 12:00 noon in…

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periodiCALS: Team of TCI Interns Tackles Nutrition
August 24, 2015
TCI Summer Internship experience is featured in periodiCALS: the magazine of Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Vol 5, Issue 2, 2015).

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In Bihar, a quiet gender revolution
August 19, 2015
“Name? Son of or Wife of?,” the check-in form at the hotel asked me. The form was practically telling me I needed to be someone’s son or wife to be occupying a room in a hotel by myself. That it wouldn’t be socially acceptable if was I doing so being someone’s daughter. Or a single…

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Reflections from ICRISAT: Science with a human face
August 15, 2015
For the past 7 weeks, the TCi team has been working closely with our partner organization ICRISAT to study household and individual dietary diversity. Finishing a research project within 7 weeks is no easy feat. Aside from the two back to back weeks of data collection spent immersed in the villages, we also had a…