Tag: Gender & Nutrition
More Chickpeas with Less Labor? Assessing the Impact of Machine-Harvestable Chickpeas on Female Labor
As India’s population increases and demand for food rises along with it, farm laborers—women in particular—face increased burdens and drudgery. Enter NBeG47, a machine-harvestable chickpea variety introduced by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) to reduce…
Can Machine-Harvestable Chickpeas Spare Female Laborers Time on the Farm?
Women in rural India face significant burdens on their time, as they often must balance farm work with unpaid housework. This is especially during the harvest seasons, when women spend even more time on the farm. The drudgery that women…
Indian Obesity Varies by Gender, Rural/Urban Divide
TCI Policy Brief Number 5, April 2022
COVID-19 Lockdowns Hurt Women’s Nutrition Security
TCI Policy Brief Number 4, April 2022
Increased Farm Work Worsens Women’s Nutrition
TCI Policy Brief Number 3, April 2022
Essays on the Effects of Migration & Remittances on Households in Rural India
Cornell University, 2021 Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the effects of migration and remittances on the welfare of families left-behind, in the context of farming households in rural India. Labor migration is heavily male dominant in India, and women and children are often left behind....
Study: Causes of Obesity in India Depend on Age, Gender, and Where You Live
Obesity is on the rise in India, and a new front in the struggle to improve nutrition in the country of 1.36 billion people has emerged. New research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) sheds light on…
Measuring Women’s Self-Help Group Performance in India
TCI-TARINA Policy Brief No. 7, May 2017
Guidelines for Assessing Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
TCI-TARINA Training Manual No. 2, September 2016
TARINA District Fact Sheet on Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
TCI-TARINA District Fact Sheet No. 3, August 2019