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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…
Katie Ricketts

MNDA pilot project begins

A recent post outlined TCi efforts to gather essential metrics to provide a standardized and streamlined way to measure nutrition status within current and existing agriculture surveys, through its Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA). Here is an update on…

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…

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 …

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…
Michaela Brown with two women

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…