TCi director Prabhu Pingali shares his thoughts on how the new Indian government should approach the agricultural and nutritional needs of its growing nation. Despite overall economic growth that the country has been experiencing over the past few decades, rural India has largely been left behind.  Poverty and malnutrition are becoming increasingly concentrated in rural areas,…

Latest TCI blog highlights development communications work in India.

TCi intern Christian DiRado-Owens, a development sociology student at Cornell University, reflects on the first round of data collection in the field. Christian is among five interns and TCi staff members who are spending the summer in India testing the dietary diversity module of the Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA). Read previous posts about the project here….

Read more about TCi’s work in creating a minimum set of nutrition metrics for use in agriculture surveys here. Since our arrival in India, the TCi intern team has taken great strides in the development of the dietary diversity module of the Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture, or MDNA. We are here to pilot test this…

A recent post outlined TCi efforts to gather essential metrics to provide a standardized and streamlined way to measure nutrition status within current and existing agriculture surveys, through its Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA). Here is an update on progress of the pilot project from Program/Research Manager Katie Ricketts. Next week the TCi team, along with our partner…

A new TCI team of staff and interns just headed out to India in mid-June – find out what they’re up to!

We are pleased to announce our 2014 intern cohort who will be working on furthering the development of the Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA) initiative underway in India with ICRISAT. Welcome to the TCI team!

This post originally appeared at FarmingFirst.org, where TCi director Prabhu Pingali contributed to a series of blog articles on resilience published in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the conference “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” to be held May 15-17. Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are becoming ubiquitous across rural India. There are currently around 3 million registered…

A Festschrift in honor of TCi chair Per Pinstrup-Andersen, sponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences, was held at Cornell University on December 13 and 14, 2013. Per’s colleagues, collaborators, and students paid tribute and presented papers in the areas of Food Systems, Health, and Nutrition; Agricultural Development and Research and Technology Policy; Globalization, Trade, and Poverty;…

A Festschrift in honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen, sponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences, was held at Cornell University on December 13 and 14, 2013. Per’s colleagues, collaborators, and students paid tribute and presented papers in the areas of Food Systems, Health, and Nutrition; Agricultural Development and Research and Technology Policy; Globalization, Trade, and Poverty;…