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Wasted Potential: Tackling Food Loss and Waste Across Transforming Food Systems

October 27, 2025 by Jocelyn Boiteau, Prabhu Pingali
As the world seeks to achieve zero hunger and mitigate the environmental degradation tied to food production and consumption, reducing food loss and waste is a critical challenge for policymakers in developed and developing countries alike. Wasted Potential: Tackling Food Loss and Waste Across Transforming...

The Case for Community-Based Agrivoltaics

October 16, 2025
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,...

Strategies for Climate Action and Sustaining Rice Productivity in Eastern India

October 16, 2025
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...
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Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock in Bihar

October 16, 2025
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....

Information Is Key to Ending Open Defecation

March 5, 2025
TCI Policy Brief No. 11, March 2025

Increasing Adoption of Artificial Insemination for Livestock

February 20, 2025
TCI Policy Brief No. 10, February 2025

Promoting Agricultural Diversification and Climate Resiliency in India

January 21, 2025
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...