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TCi intern Katy Merkel with fellow TCI interns

Pre-testing the MNDA: Our first few weeks in India

Read more about TCi’s work in creating a minimum set of nutrition metrics for use in agriculture surveys here. Since our arrival in India, the TCi intern team has taken great strides in the development of the dietary diversity module…
TCi intern Christian DiRado-Owens

The first round of MNDA dietary diversity data collection concludes: Reflections from Dokur

TCi intern Christian DiRado-Owens, a development sociology student at Cornell University, reflects on the first round of data collection in the field. Christian is among five interns and TCi staff members who are spending the summer in India testing the…
Prabhu Pingali

Agricultural policy priorities for the new Indian government

TCi director Prabhu Pingali shares his thoughts on how the new Indian government should approach the agricultural and nutritional needs of its growing nation. Despite overall economic growth that the country has been experiencing over the past few decades, rural…

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 …
Asha Sharma

TCi welcomes new researcher to tackle climate change and nutrition impacts in India

Water storage (natural or manmade) is one way in which we buffer against climate risks involving inadequate water. Not only is irrigation a way to deal with the occasional dry spell, but in many places it is critical to maintaining…
Nirmal Seeds ICTP 8203 Fe Pearl Millet

The promise of iron-fortified food for India: What’s available?

TCi intern Alex King spent the summer in Mumbai researching and advancing TCi’s understanding of the iron-fortified food market. TCi is working to develop new products, partnerships and/or opportunities for promoting iron-fortified foods for rural and urban India. As of…
Sushila Devi and her three children

Meeting a seemingly ordinary lady of extraordinary perseverance

This post originally appeared on the blog of TCi partner Digital Green, an organization that brings together technology and social organizations to improve agriculture, health and nutrition, primarily through videos created and shared by members of rural communities. Here, Nidhi…

Digging deeper: Hunger, undernutrition and poverty linkages

A staggering 2 billion people get so little essential vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat that they remain undernourished, according to the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI), released recently by TCi partner International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)…
Julia Felice

Availability vs accessibility: New TCi researcher studies nutrient needs in food supply

TCi is delighted to welcome another new post-doctoral associate to its research team: Julia Felice. Dr. Felice will be examining national agriculture and nutrition data to elucidate elements of food insecurity that may result from inadequate availability of nutrients in…