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Assessing Livestock Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Sex-Sorted Semen

With one of the largest cattle populations in the world, India’s livestock sector serves as a major source of livelihood for over 70% of rural households and contributes around 30% of farm income. India’s milk production has consistently grown in…
People standing around a green pump house at the inauguration of TCI's agrivoltaics site in Bihar

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 yesterday, June 9. The first…
Solar panels newly installed on farmland

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…

TCI Publishes 2023–24 Annual Report

The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) has published its 2023–24 Annual Report. The report offers an in-depth look at the full range of TCI’s research and other activities, including projects like Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems, and field research…
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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…
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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…
Policy brief titled Pathways for Achieving Zero-Hunger, (Net) Zero-Carbon Food Systems in Bihar

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...
TCI researchers observe a solar-powered irrigation pump

Can Bihar’s Agricultural Sector Go Climate-Smart?

In mid-August, I traveled to Bihar, India as part of a team of researchers from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition to study strategies to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture. With the trip scheduled during monsoon…
Harold van Es speaking at a podium

Times of India Reports on TCI’s Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems Project

The Tata-Cornell Institute’s (TCI) efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of Indian agriculture garnered the attention of national news media this week, with the Times of India reporting on a recent workshop held in Patna, Bihar. Organized by TCI and…
Prabhu Pingali speaking with people on a farm

Prabhu Pingali Discusses Zero-Hunger, Zero-Carbon Food Systems

India’s efforts to reduce hunger could negatively impact its ability to meet its climate change goals if it does not change its current food production practices, according to Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) Director Prabhu Pingali. In an…