Tag: icrisat
Will India’s new food bill have an impact on under-nourished women and children?
Alina Paul-Bossuet is a communications specialist with TCi partner organization ICRISAT, where she engages in range of agricultural development issues and topics around India. Here, she contributes a guest post about India’s recently passed, much debated, Food Security Bill.
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TCi convenes working group in India focused on smallholder aggregation models for improving nutrition
TCi recently coordinated a multi-sector meeting with plant breeders, economists, private agribusiness companies, NGO organizations, and intergovernmental organizations at the Hyperabad offices of ICRISAT to discuss how to expand supply and improve demand for protein-dense and biofortified foods in India. …
Establishing the Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture: TCi works to fill the agriculture-nutrition data void
TCi Program/Research Manager Katie Ricketts describes how the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative is working to fill the nutrition-agriculture data void by establishing a The Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA).
A better understanding of the links between agriculture and…
MNDA pilot project begins
A recent post outlined TCi efforts to gather essential metrics to provide a standardized and streamlined way to measure nutrition status within current and existing agriculture surveys, through its Minimum Nutrition Dataset for Agriculture (MNDA). Here is an update on…
Pre-testing the MNDA: Our first few weeks in India
Read more about TCi’s work in creating a minimum set of nutrition metrics for use in agriculture surveys here.
Since our arrival in India, the TCi intern team has taken great strides in the development of the dietary diversity module…
The first round of MNDA dietary diversity data collection concludes: Reflections from Dokur
TCi intern Christian DiRado-Owens, a development sociology student at Cornell University, reflects on the first round of data collection in the field. Christian is among five interns and TCi staff members who are spending the summer in India testing the…
Reflecting on this summer’s MNDA data collection: Our indispensable enumerators
Read additional posts about TCi’s work in creating a minimum set of nutrition metrics for use in agriculture surveys here.
It’s an exciting time for the TCI intern team – we’ve just completed data collection and are now analyzing the…
Analysis of MNDA pilot continues
TCi summer intern Nathaniel “Alex” Cordova, a graduate student in public administration, discusses the analysis phase of the work that was undertaken late in the summer after the fieldwork phase was complete. Read up onTCi’s Minimum Nutrition Dataset work here …
A minimum set of nutrition indicators for agriculture surveys: attempting to bridge the agriculture-nutrition data gap
Katie Ricketts is the Program/Research Manager for Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi), a long-term research initiative based at Cornell University.
For decades, agricultural surveys have focused on tracking household income and employment patterns, food supply and food prices, farm…
Accessing diverse diets: age and gender in household food allocation
Kathryn Merckel is a Research Support Specialist and former Summer Intern with the TCi program, and has just completed her Masters in International Development. She is interested in the intersection of nutrition and gender, particularly empowerment, behavior change, and child…