Tag: food systems

In Op-Ed, TCI Director Calls for Reorientation of Indian Agriculture

Posted on July 20, 2020

TCI director Prabhu Pingali says the Indian government should refocus its agricultural policy on the production of diverse, nutrient-rich crops to reduce hunger and malnutrition. Writing in the Daily Pioneer, Pingali argued that India’s focus on staple grains lik… Read more

10 Key Findings from TCI’s Report on Ending Hunger in India

Posted on July 15, 2020

TCI’s latest report, Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020: Leveraging Agriculture to Achieve Zero Hunger (FAN 2020), focuses on the extent of hunger and malnutrition in India in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), which calls for zero hun… Read more

Zero Hunger in India Is Possible with Diverse Food System

Posted on July 15, 2020

With some 200 million people suffering, India has relatively high rates of hunger compared with the rest of the world. However, malnutrition is not uniform throughout the country, and its prevalence corresponds to the uneven levels of economic development between d… Read more

Pandemics and Food Systems – Towards a Proactive Food Safety Approach to Disease Prevention & Management

Posted on July 14, 2020

In this blog post, which originally appeared as an op-ed piece in Food Security, TCI alumna Anaka Aiyar and director Prabhu Pingali advocate for investments in food safety as part of the response to COVID-19. Abstract Recent large-scale pandemics such as the covid19,… Read more

Tackling India’s Food Systems Challenges in the Era of Climate Change

Posted on April 10, 2020

In this blog post, TCI postdoctoral associate Anaka Aiyar and former communications and outreach manager Jessica Ames present the “technology-plus” approach for dealing with India’s food systems challenges in the midst of climate change, as proposed in the… Read more

Dyson BusinessFeed: Anaka Aiyar honored with Postdoctoral Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership

Posted on September 20, 2019

Anaka Aiyar, a postdoctoral associate with the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, was honored by Cornell University’s Office of Postdoctoral Studies with the 2019 Pos… Read more

Promoting equitable growth for 2050

Posted on July 23, 2019

As of 2018, India has become the sixth largest economy in the world displacing France from this position and nearly tying with the United Kingdom. While there is cause to celebrate, there are two major concerns about India’s growth experience. The first has been a well d… Read more

IFPRI book launch: Transforming food systems for a rising India

Posted on June 14, 2019

Despite broad economic progress, India continues to face persistent food insecurity, malnutrition, and high levels of stunting. This paradox is at the center of a new book by researchers at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, Transforming Fo… Read more

Tata-Cornell Institute’s co-authors launch new book on food systems in India

Posted on May 30, 2019

Co-authors from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition and the Dyson School have published a new book, Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India, as a reflection of the institute’s key intellectual results and research works undertaken within… Read more

Op-Ed: We’ll Be What We Eat

Posted on May 14, 2019

With a five-fold increase in food grain production since 1947, India has moved away from its dependence on food aid to become a net food exporter. However, the country still shares a quarter of the global hunger burden. By 2011, India had been able to achieve the 2000 UN-s… Read more

Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Posted on December 1, 2018

Edited by Rachid Serraj and Prabhu Pingali World Scientific Series in Grand Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century: Volume 2 CGIAR ISPC and World Scientific Publishing Co, December 2018… Read more

Book Talk: Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050

Posted on November 13, 2018

Join Prof. Prabhu Pingali for a discussion on Agriculture & Food Systems to 2050 based on the new book (for which he is co-editor). Friday, November 16, 2018, 4-5:30 pm, Mann Library, Room 102. Reception to follow.… Read more

Farm to Table Talk Podcast

Posted on November 18, 2017

Farm to Table Talk is a podcast which “explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed.” In this episode, Prabhu Pingali (TCI Director) and Maureen Valentine (Tata-Cornell Scholar) are… Read more

Join us at Chats in the Stacks, featuring our new book

Posted on November 1, 2017

Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world. Join us for a Chats in the Stacks talk by Prabhu Pingali, editor of the new book Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing W… Read more

Emerging themes on developing a diversified food system in Odisha

Posted on August 1, 2017

Odisha’s agriculture sector is largely dependent on small and marginal farmers, which comprise almost 80 percent of total farmers. Paddy is the staple cereal crop in the state, while other cereals and pulses account for a much smaller share of the gross cropped area. V… Read more

Promoting a more nutritious food system in India: The role of smallholder agriculture

Posted on January 1, 2017

Dr. Prabhu Pingali, Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) & Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University, delivered an opening lecture, titled “Promoting a More Nutritious Food System in India: The Role of Smallholder Agriculture,” at the Agri… Read more

Changing Food Systems for Improved Health: Seeking Win-Wins

Posted on January 26, 2016

By Dr. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate, and Chair of the TCi Advisory Board Food systems have much greater impact on our health and wellbeing than they are getting credit for by the popular press and in th… Read more

TCI holds first joint course on Sustainable Global Food Systems in India

Posted on February 4, 2014

TCi recently held its first joint course with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The course, Sustainable Global Food Systems: Food Policy for Developing Countries, was held in Mumbai, India from January 25-28, 2014. TCi Scholar Tanvi Rao, a Cornell Ph.D.… Read more