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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…
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Oreos and Lays and Fanta, oh my: the necessary surprises of field research

August 5, 2015
By John Lowry John Lowry is a TCi intern and undergraduate senior studying biology and government. Alongside the other interns at ICRISAT, he studies individual and household dietary diversity with a special focus on the consumption of packaged foods and foods prepared outside of the home. Below, John reflects on how junk food has made…
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TCI Team Continues to Grow

August 3, 2015
We are pleased to announce two newcomers to the Tata-Cornell Institute. Ms. Megan Witwer joins the TCI staff as a Research Support Specialist and Dr. Mathew Abraham has come on board as a TCI Fellow. Welcome to TCI!
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Cow culture: tackling taboos in field-based research

July 23, 2015
Maureen Valentine is a TCi Scholar and a second year Ph.D student in the department of Animal Science. For her research, she plans to focus on the widespread deficit of biomass for animal consumption in India. Comments in this blog are Maureen’s perspective as an non-Indian animal scientist considering animal health and welfare in the…
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Eyes on focus groups

July 15, 2015
Focus group discussions (FGD) serve as a useful research methodology to gather qualitative data on a specific topic of interest.  As the intern team working on the MNDA with ICRISAT, we are particularly interested in understanding how eating out behavior and packaged food consumption influence dietary diversity at the individual and household level. Over the…
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Tangible impacts of clean water

July 14, 2015
After working in the tribal villages of Ronhe and Gopla in the Khunti district, we are now in a new district called Koderma. Koderma is in the north of Jharkhand, bordering the state of Bihar. We are continuing our work to determine the impact of AguaClara’s water purification system based on economic and health indicators. In Koderma, we…