马特·海斯（Matt Hayes）

During the past 50 years, the Green Revolution helped transform India’s countryside into productive plots dedicated to the staple grains wheat, rice and maize, but the displacement of vitamin and mineral-rich foods has left much of the rural population chronically malnourished despite growing abundance in their midst. A $13.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi) will promote a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.

TCI应用经济学和管理教授兼TCI主任Prabhu Pingali说：“朝主食谷物的推动无意中挤出了富含微量营养的食物。”bob电竞在哪里打开“为了实施有意义的改革，不足以说‘让我们饮食更多样化。’您需要改变行为。”

普加利说，该项目有三个核心任务：收集数据和证据，以告知与饮食质量有关的政策改革；重新设计农业项目，重点是营养；并帮助建立能力使改革成为可能。TCI于2013年启动，是一项研究计划，旨在开发长期营养缺陷威胁长期健康和发展的解决方案。新的四年赠款建立了由TCI领导的一个财团，为印度营养和农业（TARINA）建立了技术援助和研究，将康奈尔大学与大学和非政府组织合作伙伴联系起来。

The consortium plans to influence the design of agricultural projects and policies with an eye on increasing the rural poor’s year-round access to an affordable food system replete with fresh fruit, vegetables, livestock products and pulses—the high-protein, micronutrient-dense legumes such as beans, peas and lentils essential to a predominantly vegetarian population.

妇女的作用是影响变革的核心。In rural India, most homestead farms grow staple grains on two to four acres of land with labor largely supplied by women, and it’s typical for men to dine first, leaving less desirable food to the women in a custom that reinforces malnourishment, according to Pingali. The project aims to empower women by, in part, strengthening their access to leadership roles in producer groups and promoting labor saving techniques, such as mechanical rice-planting technologies that eliminate the grueling labor needed to plant rice by hand.

Pingali预计该项目将介绍整个康奈尔大学的专业知识，包括查尔斯·H·戴森（Charles H. Dyson）应用经济学和管理学院，康奈尔大学营养科学系，综合植物科学学院，动物科学系和传播部。bob电竞在哪里打开