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.

Alina Paul-Bossuet is a communications specialist with TCi partner organization ICRISAT, where she engages in range of agricultural development issues and topics around India. Here, she contributes a guest post about India’s recently passed, much debated, Food Security Bill.  India urgently needs serious investment in nutrition to give children a chance for healthy development. With the bill, an…

Alina Paul-Bossuet is an invited author writing for TCI from Hyderabad, India. Alina is a Communication Specialist working at ICRISAT where she engages in range of agricultural development issues and topics around the country. Read more

This week we welcomed two new researchers to the TCi team with the appointment of Monroe Weber-Shirk as a faculty fellow and Tanvi Rao as a TCi Scholar. Meet more of our researchers here. Monroe Weber-Shirk was awarded a TCi Faculty Fellowship as a result of his current and proposed work to continue developing robust, sustainable municipal drinking water…

This week TCI welcomed two new researchers to the TCI research team with the appointment of a Faculty Fellow and a TCI Scholar. Congratulations to Dr. Monroe Weber-Shirk and Tanvi Rao! Read more

TCi Scholar Soumya Gupta , a Ph.D. candidate in applied economics and management at Cornell University, reports about 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. The rural poor…