Tag: Field notes
Aspirations and evolving diets of the rural poor
TCi director Prabhu Pingali set out on a 4,000 km journey across four states to conduct interviews with farmers in more than 20 locations throughout India. Here are some of his reflections about a trip to Wardha, Maharashtra.
As we…
Subsidized food grains make a difference for the rural poor
TCi director Prabhu Pingali set out on a 4,000 km journey across four states to conduct interviews with farmers in more than 20 locations throughout India. Here are some of his reflections about a trip to the eastern states of…
Linking women’s empowerment, iron deficiency and farming systems in Chandrapur, Maharashtra
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…
Cover crop trials for cotton
TCi Scholar Vinay Bhaskar, a Ph.D candidate in horticulture at Cornell, is conducting field trials for cover crops that can replenish the Maharashtra region’s rapidly depleting soil organic matter content. Here, he shares some of his experiences in the field. …
“Our main interest is to spread what we’ve learned to others”
TCi Scholar Lua Wilkinson is a doctoral student in International Nutrition at Cornell, where she researches how organizations can better utilize communications to improve nutrition interventions globally. Here, she details some of her work with TCi partner Digital Green on…
Household lists: Check. Community outreach: Check. Recruitment: Check.
TCi Scholar Soumya Gupta, a Ph.D. candidate in applied economics and management at Cornell University, delivers an update on her fieldwork in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, where she is studying how women’s empowerment and participation in agriculture differs…
“No, we are not from Tata-Cornell hospital!”
TCi Scholar Soumya Gupta, a Ph.D. candidate in applied economics and management at Cornell University, delivers an update on her fieldwork in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India, where she is studying how women’s empowerment and participation in agriculture differs…
Pre-testing the MNDA: Our first few weeks in India
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…
The first round of MNDA dietary diversity data collection concludes: Reflections from Dokur
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…
Reflecting on this summer’s MNDA data collection: Our indispensable enumerators
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…