Tag: Anaka Aiyar
Alumna Uses Research to Tackle Health Disparities
After working on field-based research projects in rural India for more than five years, Anaka Aiyar’s career took a new turn when she moved to the United States to pursue a PhD in economics at the University of California. Driven…
Study: Causes of Obesity in India Depend on Age, Gender, and Where You Live
Obesity is on the rise in India, and a new front in the struggle to improve nutrition in the country of 1.36 billion people has emerged. New research from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) sheds light on…
Tata-Cornell Institute’s co-authors launch new book on food systems in India
Co-authors from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition and the Dyson School have published a new book, Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India, as a reflection of the institute’s key intellectual results and research works undertaken within the…
IFPRI book launch: Transforming food systems for a rising India
Despite broad economic progress, India continues to face persistent food insecurity, malnutrition, and high levels of stunting. This paradox is at the center of a new book by researchers at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, Transforming Food Systems…
Aiyar recognized for excellence in leadership through Postdoc Achievement Award
Anaka Aiyar, postdoctoral fellow at the Tata-Cornell Institute and the Dyson School, has been awarded the Postdoc Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership. Awardees are nominated by letters from faculty, students, and colleagues and selected through a competitive review process…
Anaka Aiyar honored with Postdoctoral Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership
Anaka Aiyar, a postdoctoral associate with the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, was honored by Cornell University’s Office of Postdoctoral Studies with the 2019 Postdoctoral Achievement Award…
Tackling India’s Food Systems Challenges in the Era of Climate Change
In this blog post, TCI postdoctoral associate Anaka Aiyar and former communications and outreach manager Jessica Ames present the “technology-plus” approach for dealing with India’s food systems challenges in the midst of climate change, as proposed in the TCI’s book, …
Migration Mess: Using a Food Systems Lens to Understand India’s Migrant Crisis after COVID-19
In this blog post, Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI) postdoctoral associate Anaka Aiyar draws lessons about migrants in India from TCI’s book, Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India, and applies them to the migration plight precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pandemics and Food Systems – Towards a Proactive Food Safety Approach to Disease Prevention & Management
In this blog post, which originally appeared as an op-ed piece in Food Security, TCI alumna Anaka Aiyar and director Prabhu Pingali advocate for investments in food safety as part of the response to COVID-19.
Abstract
Recent large-scale pandemics such…
Dyson BusinessFeed: Tata-Cornell Institute’s co-authors launch new book on food systems in India
The BusinessFeed announces news and updates important to the “our business is a better world” mission of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management; in this case, an article about the launch of TCI’s new Food Systems…