Tag: Field notes
Analysis of MNDA pilot continues
TCi summer intern Nathaniel “Alex” Cordova, a graduate student in public administration, discusses the analysis phase of the work that was undertaken late in the summer after the fieldwork phase was complete. Read up onTCi’s Minimum Nutrition Dataset work here …
The promise of iron-fortified food for India: What’s available?
TCi intern Alex King spent the summer in Mumbai researching and advancing TCi’s understanding of the iron-fortified food market. TCi is working to develop new products, partnerships and/or opportunities for promoting iron-fortified foods for rural and urban India. As of…
Continuity of fieldwork
The Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi) prides itself on being an interdisciplinary and innovative organization that draws experts and skills from across Cornell’s research areas to address food insecurity and malnutrition. The research group includes a multitude of individuals…
Welcome to ICRISAT: Science with a Human Face
“When I was young, I grew up on American food,” Mr. Sharma said. I looked up, smiling at the thought of Indians and Americans of the past sharing the same meals halfway around the world. He did not return it.…
“If You Could Have Utensils as Fingers…”
Anyone who has spent enough time around me (which sometimes might mean about five minutes) has been asked the question: “If you had to replace your fingers with any kind of utensil, what utensil would you choose?” This is one…
Heartbeat of the Household: My first selfie with the women of Jharkhand
I am working in the rural villages of Jharkhand as a TCi Intern this summer. Paired with TCi PhD Scholar Shiuli Vanaja, we will be looking at the economic and health impacts of the AguaClara water treatment technology. AguaClara is…
Visiting the Marketplace: Pilot Testing Our Novel Market Level Dietary Diversity Module
Over the past one and a half weeks since our arrival in India, our team has been hard at work developing and fine-tuning our survey instruments. Building on the MNDA pilot completed by TCi interns last year, our team aims…
Telugu Essentials: Kodi Kura Cala Manci
Few things made me happier this week than walking into a home and seeing hugs and hearing welcomes between old friends. This week in Dokur, a rural village that ICRISAT has been working with since 1975, I got to see…
America the– raw meat eating?—beautiful: the value of living alongside villagers
I was cornered.
The lady we were surveying held out a glass of water in one hand, as she held her child in the other.
“Thank you, but I’ve had enough to drink,” I said smiling. I did not want…
Tangible impacts of clean water
After working in the tribal villages of Ronhe and Gopla in the Khunti district, we are now in a new district called Koderma. Koderma is in the north of Jharkhand, bordering the state of Bihar. We are continuing our work…