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Publications

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...

Making Supermarkets Profitable for India’s Small Farms

December 12, 2024
TCI Policy Brief No. 9, December 2024