TCi Program/Research Manager Katie Ricketts describes how the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative is working to fill the nutrition-agriculture data void by establishing a The Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA). A better understanding of the links between agriculture and nutrition will require new thinking around how agriculture and nutrition surveys can collect the critical data needed…

This month TCI highlights the progress being made on the development of the Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA), an exciting new initiative undertaken by TCI and partner organizations to fill the ‘data-gap’ and establish a greater empirical understanding of the links between agriculture and nutrition. Read more.

On March 15, 2014, in an interview with Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Prabhu Pingali speaks on food prices, weather uncertainty and the role of good policy in recent interview with India’s Business Standar. Read more.

In February 2014, TCI convened a two day workshop in Hyderabad, India with ICRISAT looking at how new aggregation models could help supply and deliver micronutrient and protein-dense food for the malnourished in India. Read more.

TCi recently coordinated a multi-sector meeting with plant breeders, economists, private agribusiness companies, NGO organizations, and intergovernmental organizations at the Hyperabad offices of ICRISAT to discuss how to expand supply and improve demand for protein-dense and biofortified foods in India. Program/Research Manager Katie Ricketts reports from India. The nutrition challenges facing India are extraordinary: the country suffers one of the…

During his recent time in India (Jan-March 2014), Prabhu Pingali gave a Distinguished Lecture at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) at the University of Delhi in New Delhi, India. Access the presentation here.

TCi Scholar Soumya Gupta, a Ph.D. candidate in applied economics and management at Cornell University, delivers an update on her fieldwork in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, where she is studying how women’s empowerment and participation in agriculture differs across farming systems and how participation in farm and non-farm employment may affect iron deficiency status. Read her previous…

TCi Scholar Soumya Gupta, a Ph.D. candidate in applied economics and management at Cornell University, delivers an update on her fieldwork in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, where she is studying how women’s empowerment and participation in agriculture differs across farming systems and how participation in farm and non-farm employment may affect iron deficiency status. Read her first…

TCi Scholar Lua Wilkinson is a doctoral student in International Nutrition at Cornell, where she researches how organizations can better utilize communications to improve nutrition interventions globally. In her second post from the field (read her first here) she discusses the challenges and successes of community health educators. Difficulties coordinating and retaining community health workers (CHW) have been problematic…

TCi recently held its first joint course with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The course, Sustainable Global Food Systems: Food Policy for Developing Countries, was held in Mumbai, India from January 25-28, 2014. TCi Scholar Tanvi Rao, a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in applied economics and management, reports back about her experience attending the four-day event….