Tata-Cornell Institute For Agriculture And Nutrition

The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition is a long-term research initiative focusing on the design and evaluation of innovative interventions linking agriculture, food systems, human nutrition, and poverty in India. The main office of TCI is located on Cornell University’s campus in Ithaca, New York. We are a part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and are hosted by the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. We also have satellite offices in Mumbai and New Delhi, as well as multiple active field research locations across rural India. We fund and advise over a dozen Ph.D. and Masters student researchers from disciplines across the Cornell campus. The majority of these TCI Scholars conduct intensive field work as an integral part their thesis research. We believe that field research that addresses the problems of the rural poor is highly compatible with analytically rigorous research that is expected of Cornell graduate students. In addition, we have regularly hosted visiting fellows and scholars from partner institutions in India and elsewhere.