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Videos from the Field: Jocelyn Boiteau
This summer, Jocelyn Boiteau has been learning about food loss in the fruit and vegetable value chains in India. Hear from Jocelyn as she describes her exploratory research.
Jocelyn Boiteau is a Tata-Cornell Scholar and second year PhD student at…
Videos from the Field: Krystal Rampalli
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have been used to help agriculture communities improve their farming knowledge and market strategies. Over the summer, Krystal Rampalli has been talking with farmers and programs across India that use ICT for Ag, to understand…
Videos from the Field: Rohil Bhatnagar
During his summer of exploratory research, Rohil Bhatnagar has spent two months visiting rural villages in order to assess dietary patterns, market-level food diversity, and nutritional awareness – especially around iron-deficiency anemia. Learn more about how this fieldwork in Gujarat,…
Dietary predictors of iron-deficiency anemia in rural India
Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is a global, multifactorial nutritional disorder having severe health and economic implications. The burden of IDA is most prevalent in resource-limited settings that rely primarily on staple cereals and a few vegetables for nourishment. Specifically in India, …
Quality or quantity? Defining food loss and waste along the fruit and vegetable value chain
The FAO estimates that “one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally” (FAO, 2011). As I went about my summer exploratory work on food loss in India, I spent time reflecting on how ‘food loss and…
Bridging the gap: Soil health in Ithaca and India, from lab to field to lab
Bihar, 2018:
The thick fog blanketed the city making it impossible to see any of the buildings down below. I’d been warned of the trouble with fog in the northern part of India but the inability to see anything beyond…
Making adolescent girls a priority, not an afterthought, in the global health debate
“In global health, we talk a lot about neglected diseases like onchocerciasis and schistosomiasis—serious ailments that most people have never heard of. But a condition that everybody is perfectly aware of, malnutrition, may be the most neglected health problem in…
New food for better health: Introducing orange sweet potato to Uttar Pradesh
On a bright, windy morning in the rural district of Maharajganj, Sunita Devi listens for the crackling of cumin seeds in hot mustard oil, then adds a heap of chopped onions and garlic to the pan, smiling as they begin…
Farmers’ decision making and perceived benefits of orange-fleshed sweet potato adoption
“He says orange-fleshed sweet potato has made his family healthier,” my translator, Shaktikar says as I scribble notes in a small notebook. I make sure not to disturb the iPhone pointed towards the farmer we’re interviewing. It is recording every…
Micronutrient transmission from soils to humans
They say “we are what we eat” but can it be that we are what the soil is? Soil forms the foundation of the food we eat. It also serves as the main reservoir of the water we drink, making…