Tag: research methods
Starting upstream: Why are Indians not getting enough micronutrients?
Julia Felice is a Post-Doctoral Associate with TCi who examine national agriculture and nutrition data to elucidate elements of food insecurity that may result from inadequate availability of nutrients in the food supply vs. inadequate or inequitable accessibility of those…
The game of the name: matching names across datasets
Asha Sharma is a Post-Doctoral Associate with the TCi program, where she is working to quantify risks due to climate change on agriculture in India. Her research interests include the intersection of water resources, climate change, and food systems, and…
Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Field Research
As a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Initiative on Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University I spent 15 months in India designing and implementing a household survey to collect data for my dissertation. The aim was to study linkages between…
Call for Applications: Tata-Cornell Summer Internship
The Tata-Cornell Institute is actively recruiting graduate students for the 2018 Summer Internship Program. This is a 6-8 week professional development and research-oriented opportunity for students interested in issues related to food policy, agriculture & nutrition, and rural development in…
Collecting time use data: Accelerometers or survey methods?
How people spend their time can influence their health, nutrition, and income. However, accurately measuring time use can be very challenging. In this blog, Vidya S.R. Vemireddy, a PhD candidate in applied economics at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and…