由马特海耶斯

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.

“推动主食谷物无意中拥挤的微量营养素丰富的食物，”帕布布平莱说，采用经济学和管理教授和TCI主任。yabo88下载“为了制定有意义的改革，只是说，”让我们产生更多样化的饮食。“你需要行为改变。”

平均表示该项目有三个核心任务：收集数据和证据，告知政策改革与饮食质量有关;重新设计农业项目，专注于营养;并帮助建立能力进行改革。TCI于2013年推出作为开发解决方案的研究举措，其中慢性营养缺陷威胁着长期的健康和发展。新的为期四年批准，为印度营养和农业（Tarina）建立了技术援助和研究，由TCI联系，与大学和非政府组织合作伙伴联系在一起。

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.

妇女的作用是实现变革的核心。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.

平原预计该项目将挖掘康奈尔横跨康奈尔的专业知识，包括Charles H. Dyson of Applied Commericonic和Management，康奈尔营养科学学院，综合植物科学学院，动物科学系，动物科学系，沟通部。yabo88下载