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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Focus group discussions (FGD) serve as a useful research methodology to gather qualitative data on a specific topic of interest.  As the intern team working on the MNDA with ICRISAT, we are particularly interested in understanding how eating out behavior…

For the past 7 weeks, the TCi team has been working closely with our partner organization ICRISAT to study household and individual dietary diversity.  Finishing a research project within 7 weeks is no easy feat. Aside from the two back…

By John Lowry John Lowry is a TCi intern and undergraduate senior studying biology and government. Alongside the other interns at ICRISAT, he studies individual and household dietary diversity with a special focus on the consumption of packaged foods and…

This summer internship opportunity in India may be of special interest to students in departments like government, economics, international relations, development studies, health, nutrition, human ecology, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, South Asian studies, history, etc. Cornell University undergraduates and graduate…

Prabhu Pingali, director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), has been named chair of the governing board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). ICRISAT is an international organization that conducts development-related scientific…