From 3D-printed phyllo pastries to petite peppers packing powerful nutritional punches, innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration will be key ingredients forming the future of food. Academic experts and industry insiders gathered at Cornell University on December 8 for a global summit to discuss new approaches to emerging food system challenges. They served up fresh findings and…

We are pleased to share this year’s annual report! To learn more about our accomplishments and understand where we hope to go next, be sure to check out the Research Highlights and Beyond 2014 sections. Many thanks to our partners, affiliates and supporters for making our first year a success!

Katie Ricketts is the Program/Research Manager for Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi), a long-term research initiative based at Cornell University.  For decades, agricultural surveys have focused on tracking household income and employment patterns, food supply and food prices, farm management and agronomy practices. Often, this has given economists and others a good sense of what and…

TCi is delighted to welcome another new post-doctoral associate to its research team: Julia Felice. Dr. Felice will be examining 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. Here, she shares…

The TCI blog has gotten a makeover. Visit our blog where we will continue to offer regular updates on our work through progress reports and features like Field Notes. And follow @TataCornell on Twitter for even more frequent updates and links to content you care about.

A staggering 2 billion people get so little essential vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat that they remain undernourished, according to the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI), released recently by TCi partner International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide. Here, IFPRI director general  Shenggen Fan reflects on the relationship between…

This post originally appeared on the blog of TCi partner Digital Green, an organization that brings together technology and social organizations to improve agriculture, health and nutrition, primarily through videos created and shared by members of rural communities. Here, Nidhi Chakrabarty shares a story about an encounter with “a seemingly ordinary lady of extraordinary perseverance.” Meet Sushila Devi,…

New Foods and Old Food Policy: the Great Asian Disconnect Lecture given at the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 15, 2014.

As reported by TCi partner HarvestPlus, there has been a breakthrough in breeding for vitamin A in maize (corn) by a team of researchers from Purdue, Cornell and Michigan State. Purdue agronomy professor Torbert Rocheford (pictured), a longtime HarvestPlus collaborator, worked with the labs of Cornell plant breeder Michael Gore and genetiticist Edward Buckler, to identify…

TCi intern Alex King spent the summer in Mumbai researching and advancing TCi’s understanding of the iron-fortified food market. TCi is working to develop new products, partnerships and/or opportunities for promoting iron-fortified foods for rural and urban India. As of now, anemia represents a major human health crisis in the region, with close to 40% of women in…