Tag: Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture
TCI Publishes 2024–25 Annual Report
The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) has published its 2024–25 Annual Report.
The report offers an in-depth look at the full range of TCI’s research and other activities, including grant-funded projects like the Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems project…
Conflicting Societal Goals and the Sustainability Challenge: Eliminating Hunger Versus Climate Action
As a global society, we have historically pursued large, collective goals—to end hunger, to stop war, to halt climate change. The United Nations (UN) has played a major role in global goal setting, beginning with the Millennium Development Goals and…
Farming the Sun, Cultivating Hope: How Agrivoltaics in Nawada Builds Resilience and Community
When I first began working with farming communities in Rwanda, I discovered a truth that has shaped my perspective on development ever since: real transformation does not come from technology alone—it comes from people. It comes from communities standing together,…
Assessing Livestock Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Sex-Sorted Semen
With one of the largest cattle populations in the world, India’s livestock sector serves as a major source of livelihood for over 70% of rural households and contributes around 30% of farm income. India’s milk production has consistently grown in…
TCI Inaugurates Bihar’s First Agrivoltaics Site
The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) and Preservation and Proliferation of Rural Resources and Nature (PRAN), along with Jain Irrigation Systems, celebrated the inauguration of an agrivoltaics installation in Bihar’s Gaya ji district on Monday, June 9. The…
Testing Agrivoltaics with Farmers in Bihar
The increasing global demand for green energy and food necessitates win-win solutions that address these two priorities without undermining each other or causing negative externalities. One potential solution lies in a relatively new technology: agrivoltaics. It enables the co-location of…
Key Takeaways from a Workshop on Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Chhattisgarh
As climate change advances, India’s rice-and-wheat-heavy agricultural sector is at risk of weakened production because of temperature changes and more frequent extreme weather events, like droughts. In an effort to make Indian agriculture more climate-resilient, the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture…
Chhattisgarh Can Reduce Ag Emissions Through Diversification
India has made enormous progress against hunger by incentivizing the production of staple grains like rice and wheat. Yet, as climate change advances, the country’s dependence on rice is becoming a burden due both to its large environmental footprint and…
Promoting Agricultural Diversification and Climate Resiliency in India
This special policy brief estimates the potential reduction in methane gas emissions from the diversification of agriculture in Chhattisgarh, India. The analysis provides policymakers with information regarding pathways for combatting climate change by reducing agricultural emissions, making Chhattisgarh’s agricultural system more resilient to the effects...
TCI Publishes 2023–24 Annual Report
The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) has published its 2023–24 Annual Report.
The report offers an in-depth look at the full range of TCI’s research and other activities, including projects like Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems, and field research…