This week TCI held its first joint course with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. The course was titled Sustainable Global Food Systems: Food Policy for Developing Countries and was held in Mumbai, India from January 25-28, 2014. The course program is available at this link, which was updated through the week with speaker bios, power…

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. Here, she details some of her work with TCi partner Digital Green on the use of low-cost participatory communication technologies such as video to improve nutrition among women’s self-help groups in…

TCi Scholar Vinay Bhaskar, a Ph.D candidate in horticulture at Cornell, is conducting field trials for cover crops that can replenish the Maharashtra region’s rapidly depleting soil organic matter content. Here, he shares some of his experiences in the field.  Cotton represents a major crop in India; millions depend on it for income and employment. Cotton…

Last week, the technical meeting for the upcoming 2nd International Conference for Nutrition was held at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. The purpose of the meeting was to gather experts to hear country feedback and set the agenda for the main event, which will take place in November 2014. TCi Program/Research Manager Katie…

Check out our blog! Lua Wilkinson, a Cornell University PhD student in Nutrition Sciences and TCI Scholar, shares about her recent fieldwork focusing on nutrition messaging in rural Orissa. TCI FIELD NOTES are a series of blog posts dedicated for current TCI Scholars, Fellows and TCI staff to share experiences, insight and stories stemming from TCI-funded fieldwork throughout India.

TCi Scholar Maureen Valentine, a graduate student in animal science at Cornell University, is studying goat nutrition and feeding practices in the Udaipur District of Rajasthan. Here, she shares some of her experiences in the field.  Mahatma Gandhi referred to goats as the “poor man’s cow”, and this description certainly holds true in much of India today….

Yanyan Liu, of TCi partner organization International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Klaus Deininger, of the World Bank, are currently conducting research on the poverty and welfare impacts of one of India’s largest public works programs, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. They share some initial findings from their research in this guest post. Public works programs…

This post was authored by Yanyan Liu from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Klaus Deininger from the World Bank. They are currently conducting research on the poverty and welfare impacts of one of India’s largest public works programs, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

TCI Director Prabhu Pingali spoke at the 2013 Science Forum, September 23-25 in Germany. His talk was titled, Agricultural Pathways to Improved Nutrition: Getting Policies Right. See Video.

Prabhu Pingali has been appointed Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), a long-term project established through a $25 million endowment from the Tata Trusts. Read more.