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;…

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.