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31/07/2020

A few key insights from Tata-Cornell Institute’s latest report on the impact of on Indian prices, 'Pandemic Prices: COVID-19 Price Shocks & Their Implications for Security in India' have been reported by leading English daily newspaper, The Hindu.

The study found that the prices of -rich foods like pulses increased as a result of the nationwide lockdown instituted in response to the pandemic, while the prices of staple grains like and were relatively undisturbed.

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The Hindu, one of the largest English-language newspapers in South India, reported on the Tata-Cornell Institute’s latest report, a study of the impact of COVID-19 on Indian food prices.

30/07/2020

'Indian government should refocus its policy on the production of diverse, nutrient-rich crops to reduce and ,' wrote Tata-Cornell Institute director, Prof Prabhu Pingali in a latest op-ed featured in The Daily Pioneer.

Pingali argued that India’s focus on grains like and has contributed to stubbornly high rates of malnutrition in the country.

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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.

29/07/2020

plays an integral role in achieving improved outcomes in India. In this blog, Tata-Cornell Institute's , co-author of Food, Agriculture & Nutrition in India 2020, discusses how she created a map for the report and why this approach is important for productivity in India.

Across cropping systems, the opportunity exists for diversifying to and coarse , as these crops are high in nutritive value and resilient to climate stress.

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In this blog post, Kiera Crowley, co-author of Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020, discusses how she created cropping systems maps for the report and why they are important for improving agricultural productivity in India.

28/07/2020

Tata-Cornell Institute will hold a virtual launch event for one of its newest reports, , , and Nutrition in India 2020: Leveraging Agriculture to Achieve on August 4, 2020, from 8 AM EDT/5:30 PM IST.

report launch event will witness the discussion by Trilochan Mohapatra, Icar, Pusa; Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog; Purvi Mehta, Gates Foundation India; and Jacqueline Hughes, ICRISAT. The director, Prabhu Pingali, as well as co-authors Kiera Crowley and Andaleeb Rahman, will also be on hand to discuss the report and its implications for efforts to combat and in India.

Details: https://bit.ly/3jxnlqY

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TCI will hold a virtual launch event for one of its newest reports, Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020, on August 4, 2020, from 8-9:30 a.m. EDT/5:30-7 p.m. IST.

27/07/2020

How will millions of who returned home during India’s lockdown impact ? What can govt possibly do to mitigate its negative consequences?

Sharing his insights on the subject, Tata-Cornell Institute, associate director, Bhaskar Mittra points out that the number of who have returned home is too large to be accommodated in the rural sector unless additional investments are made in rural India by the government and private sectors. He suggests that the Government of India must act quickly so that shattered dreams can be rebuilt while helping to revive the sector.

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With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and the subsequent nationwide lockdown in March, many migrants and informal workers living in cities have returned with their families to their homes in towns and villages across India. This sudden mass exodus will have a profound impact on the Indian economy, e

25/07/2020

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Tata-Cornell Institute is all set to hold a virtual launch event for one of its newest reports, Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020: Leveraging Agriculture to Achieve Zero Hunger ( ). The event, which will be livestreamed at facebook.com/tatacornellinstitute, features a panel of esteemed experts on agriculture and food systems in India.

Date:4th August, 2020.
⏰5:30 pm IST/8 am EDT

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TCI will hold a virtual launch event for one of its newest reports, Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020, on August 4, 2020, from 8-9:30 a.m. EDT/5:30-7 p.m. IST.

24/07/2020

"The discussion must move on from just feeding to feeding enough nutritious to and ," remarked Prof Prabhu Pingali, director, Tata-Cornell Institute
at the organized today at 5:30 pm by Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) where he was the guest speaker.

While Prof Pingali appreciated the recent schemes such as and enhancing supply for the scheme for addressing the problems of migrant workers, he underlined the fact that there has to be a re-orientation of policies and consistent follow up at the ground level for effective implementation.

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24/07/2020

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The print edition of India's leading newspaper, Asian Age has covered the recent induction of Tata-Cornell Institute director, Prof Prabhu Pingali as Pravasi (Expatriate) Fellow by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences-(NAAS) on 21st July, 2020.

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23/07/2020

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The induction of Tata-Cornell Institute director, Prof Prabhu Pingali as Pravasi (Expatriate) Fellow by India’s National Academy of Agricultural Sciences gets featured in , a leading news outlet in India.

As an apex body of agriculture sciences in India, members are elected to NAAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. T

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Noted agriculture economist, Prof Prabhu Pingali who was earlier elected to India’s National Academy of Agricultural Sciences as a Pravasi (Expatriate) Fellow, has been inducted into Academy on July 21, 2020.

23/07/2020

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Prof Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute and a Professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, has been inducted as the Pravasi (Expatriate) Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences ( ), India on July 21, 2020.

Earlier during 2019, Prabhu Pingali was elected as a Fellow of the Academy after a multi-level process following his nomination by an existing distinguished Fellow plus review process conducted by Sectional Committees.

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22/07/2020

In a recently published report, researchers from Tata-Cornell Institute show that ’s rigorous has driven up the price of produce, limiting people’s ability to afford a diverse diet.

In the study, Pandemic Prices: Price Shocks from COVID-19 and Their Implications on in India, TCI analyzed the average weekly price of cereal grains, vegetables, pulses (the edible seeds of plants in the legume family, such as beans and peas) and eggs in 11 major metropolitan cities across India between March 1 and May 31, comparing them to the 2019 prices and the weeks before the lockdown.

Details here: https://bit.ly/2WFyVX2

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A new study from TCI shows that India’s rigorous lockdown to contain the coronavirus has driven up the price of produce, limiting people’s ability to afford a nutritionally diverse diet.

21/07/2020

The authors of just-released Tata-Cornell Institute report, Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition in India 2020: Leveraging Agriculture to Achieve Zero Hunger, Kiera Crowley and Andaleeb Rahman offer 10 key findings on and ending by 2030 in the context of .

The report uses district-level maps and data to lay bare the stark spatial differences in hunger and malnutrition in India and highlights potential ways the country can move forward toward those goals.

Insights: https://bit.ly/3hmT3oN

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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 hunger and an end to malnutrition b...