TIGR2ESS is a large-scale project drawing together partners from research, industry, government and NGOs in the UK and India
TIGR2ESS is developing and strengthening alliances across a carefully selected network of UK and Indian experts
Working together will enable us to contextualise the challenge in terms of the widespread changes taking place in Indian society today, including urbanisation, drawing many away from rural work, particularly men; and technological developments transforming the employment opportunities within food sector away from primary production. Choices about modern agricultural practices in India must reflect societal needs, and our understanding of these needs will help us orientate the subsequent research programme and its translation towards an outcome that is both technically and socially acceptable, and possible, for today's India.
Project partners
TIGR2ESS is led by the Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre (GFS IRC) at the University of Cambridge.
GFS is a virtual network of researchers across the University supporting interdisciplinary, collaborative research to address issues surrounding local, national and international food security. Expertise for TIGR2ESS is drawn from the following departments and institutes:
Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP)
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI)
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)
Global Centre for Nutrition and Health (NNEdPro)
Signatories to the UK-India Crop Science Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 2016 with India’s Department of Biotechnology to establish a joint UK-India crop science programme that will tackle food security challenges. This will promote collaborative research, knowledge exchange and capacity building for resilience in food security.
This consortium of British research institutions, led by the University of Cambridge, includes the following organisations who are also partners in TIGR2ESS:
National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB)
Additional UK TIGR2ESS partners
Higher Education, Research Institutes and NGOs across lndia
Banaras Hindu University, Department of AIHC and Archaeology, BHU;
Department of Biotechnology (DBT) New Delhi;
Centers for International Projects Trust (CIPT), New Delhi;
Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore;
CRIKC (Panjab University), Chandigarh;
CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi;
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad;
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi;
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar;
Iora;
Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), and KIIT Bhubaneswar;
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai;
Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar;
NIPGR, New Delhi;
NIAS, Bangalore;
Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh;
PRADAN New Delhi;
Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana;
Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), Ludhiana;
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai;
University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan;
University of Tamil Nadu;