Tag: Milorad Plavsic
New Webinar Series Will Begin with Discussion on Sustainable Tech
The Transforming Food Systems Forum, a new webinar series from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), will start on Monday, September 14, with an examination of sustainable technologies for smallholder farmers.
The series will feature insightful, data-driven discussions…
Researchers and Policymakers Talk Future of Climate-Smart Agriculture
India faces a difficult challenge in the near future: producing enough food to feed its growing population while reducing the stresses agriculture puts on the environment. At a policy dialogue organized by the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI)…
Selling Bihar’s Livestock Farmers on Climate-Smart Technologies
Across Bihar, livestock rearing is central to rural livelihoods. Yet low productivity, high input costs, and rising methane emissions pose long-term challenges for both farmers and the environment. Bihar has one of the largest cattle populations in India, but productivity…
A Multi-Use Agrivoltaics Model for Smallholder Communities
India, like many countries around the world, faces the daunting challenge of increasing food production to feed its growing population while attempting to mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, agri-photovoltaics (agrivoltaics…
TCI Inaugurates Bihar’s First Agrivoltaics Site
The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) and Preservation and Proliferation of Rural Resources and Nature (PRAN), along with Jain Irrigation Systems, celebrated the inauguration of an agrivoltaics installation in Bihar’s Gaya ji district on Monday, June 9. The…
Testing Agrivoltaics with Farmers in Bihar
The increasing global demand for green energy and food necessitates win-win solutions that address these two priorities without undermining each other or causing negative externalities. One potential solution lies in a relatively new technology: agrivoltaics. It enables the co-location of…
Can Agrivoltaics Help Achieve Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems?
With a rising global population, demand for food and energy is increasing while the world seeks to move away from fossil fuel use. TCI’s Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems project aims to reduce the climate impacts of food production in Bihar…
Transformative Technologies Offer Bihar a Path to Net-Zero Agriculture
Bihar can make significant progress toward its goal of sustainable development by implementing three transformative technologies in the state’s agricultural sector, according to the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). In a special policy brief, the Institute shows that…
Pathways for Achieving Zero-Hunger, (Net) Zero-Carbon Food Systems in Bihar
This special policy brief provides estimates of the potential reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that could be achieved in Bihar by adopting three transformational technologies in the state’s agricultural sector: alternate wetting and drying, advanced artificial insemination, and anti-methanogenic feed supplements. This analysis provides...
Key Takeaways from TCI’s Report on Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in South Asia
Late last year, TCI published a report examining the state of food systems in South Asia. Part of a series produced by the Institute, Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in South Asia: Building Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems (FAN-South Asia) explores trends…