Tanvi Rao is a TCi Scholar and PhD Candidate in Applied Economics and Management at Cornell’s Dyson School. Earlier this year, I completed a four-month long survey of 12th grade students in and around the city of Ranchi in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India. My dissertation research measures the demand for different types of post-secondary education and identifies students who…

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi).  She was a 2015 Next Generation Delegate at the Global Food Security Symposium convened by the Chicago Council. The symposium this year focused on leveraging food systems for improved nutrition. This post originally appeared on the Chicago Council’s Global Food for…

The Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi) prides itself on being an interdisciplinary and innovative organization that draws experts and skills from across Cornell’s research areas to address food insecurity and malnutrition. The research group includes a multitude of individuals with interests ranging from agricultural economics, nutrition, animal science, and climate change mitigation and livelihood resilience. In…

2015 marks a special year for us – our first graduates! We are very proud of our scholars, researchers and interns who completed their degrees. Distinguished recognition goes out to Dr. Soumya Gupta, Ph.D in Applied Economics. Congratulations!

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…