This special policy brief presents the results of TCI-supported studies aimed at enhancing the productivity of rice farms and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice production in Bihar. It examines strategies for increasing the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer usage and demonstrates that the production context...

This special policy brief presents preliminary results from a TCI study on the impact of awareness campaigns on farmer adoption of advanced artificial insemination with sex-sorted semen for livestock breeding, a potential pathway for increasing productivity and reducing methane emissions from livestock production in Bihar....

This special policy brief presents the benefits of community-based agrivoltaics for smallholder farmers in India, based on a pilot agrivoltaics site that TCI built with a group of farmers in Bihar. The brief provides an assessment of how agrivoltaics can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...

This policy brief presents the results of a study of the impact of toilet subsidies and behavior change communications on the practice of open defecation in rural India. TCI researchers conducted a cluster randomized trial of villages in Uttar Pradesh, providing one group of villages...

This policy brief presents the results of a systematic review of existing research on the determinants of farmers’ use of artificial insemination for livestock breeding. TCI researchers examined 18 studies spanning 10 countries throughout the developing world, creating a list of factors that most heavily...

This special policy brief estimates the potential reduction in methane gas emissions from the diversification of agriculture in Chhattisgarh, India. The analysis provides policymakers with information regarding pathways for combatting climate change by reducing agricultural emissions, making Chhattisgarh’s agricultural system more resilient to the effects...

This policy brief presents the results of a study examining the impact of supermarkets on smallholder farmers in India. Using field survey data collected from 795 farm households across four states representing India’s varied agroclimatic and socioeconomic regions, researchers found that farmers who sold to...

This special policy brief provides an estimate of the number of active farmer producer organizations (FPOs) promoted in India from 2003 to 2024 and makes the case for a centralized system for tracking FPOs. A system to identify and track FPO promotion and performance in...

This policy brief presents the findings of a TCI study examining the effect of women’s nutritional empowerment on dietary diversity within households situated in areas along a continuum from rural to urban. Using data from the National Family Health Survey and satellite-based data on nighttime...

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...