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The promise of iron-fortified food for India: What’s available?
October 10, 2014
by Alex King
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…

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TCi welcomes new researcher to tackle climate change and nutrition impacts in India
October 6, 2014
Water storage (natural or manmade) is one way in which we buffer against climate risks involving inadequate water. Not only is irrigation a way to deal with the occasional dry spell, but in many places it is critical to maintaining current crop yields. This makes agriculture by far the biggest consumer of water amongst human…

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Analysis of MNDA pilot continues
October 2, 2014
by Alex Córdova
TCi summer intern Nathaniel “Alex” Cordova, a graduate student in public administration, discusses the analysis phase of the work that was undertaken late in the summer after the fieldwork phase was complete. Read up onTCi’s Minimum Nutrition Dataset work here and check out prior posts about the project. While the data collection process was operationally taxing, the data analysis…

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Back from the field. The data analysis continues…
October 2, 2014
TCI summer intern Nathaniel “Alex” Cordova, a graduate student in public administration, discusses the analysis phase of the work that was undertaken late in the summer after the fieldwork phase was complete.

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Reflecting on this summer’s MNDA data collection: Our indispensable enumerators
September 9, 2014
Read additional posts about TCi’s work in creating a minimum set of nutrition metrics for use in agriculture surveys here. It’s an exciting time for the TCI intern team – we’ve just completed data collection and are now analyzing the results to see how the MNDA household dietary diversity scores compare with ICRISAT’s extensive nutrition survey….

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Agricultural policy priorities for the new Indian government
August 11, 2014
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,…

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August news: TCI digital short highlights the MNDA work in Andhra!
August 1, 2014
Latest TCI blog highlights development communications work in India.

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The first round of MNDA dietary diversity data collection concludes: Reflections from Dokur
July 15, 2014
by Christian DiRado-Owens
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….

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Pre-testing the MNDA: Our first few weeks in India
June 30, 2014
by Kathryn Merckel
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…

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MNDA pilot project begins
June 17, 2014
by Katie Ricketts
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…