Tag: women
Leveraging Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi). She was a 2015 Next Generation Delegate at the Global Food Security Symposium convened by the Chicago Council.…
Feed and fodder scarcity in India – an exploratory research project
One of the major constraints to dairy production in India, particularly in resource-poor, rural areas, is a lack of feed and fodder for livestock. Birthal and Jha (2005) estimate that feed scarcity is the most important constraint in the dairy…
TCI Gender Specialist Discusses COVID-19 Impact on Women
The coronavirus pandemic will have a disparate effect on women in developing countries, says Shubh Swain, Tata-Cornell Institute gender and nutrition specialist and assistant director of Technical Assistance and Research for Indian Nutrition and Agriculture. Writing for LiveMint, Swain argues…