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Satyam Saxena

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Satyam Saxena is an economist with research interests in the economics of sustainable agriculture. Since joining CIMMYT-India in 2022, he has primarily focused on assessing the impacts of resource use, productivity, and farmers’ livelihoods. Prior to his role at CIMMYT, Satyam was a research officer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (2019-2022), where he contributed to the UN-SDSN FABLE Pathways project, which aims to develop sustainable food and land use systems.

Satyam holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, and a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Delhi. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, contributing to the academic discourse on sustainable development.

Alison Laing

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Alison Laing is the CIMMYT lead for CSISA India, and leads bilateral and Initiative-funded projects in South and Southeast Asia. She works with farmers and researchers in South and Southeast Asia to sustainably improve cropping and farming system productivity, profitability and resilience.

Alison firmly believes in participatory, multi-disciplinary research and in combining practical field-trial based research with robust modelling to examine likely long-term outcomes of different management approaches.

Moben Ignatius

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Moben Ignatius is the Agriculture Research Associate in the SAS program at CIMMYT. His role revolves around fostering sustainable agricultural practices and innovative technologies and methods that cater to Rice-Wheat cropping systems.

His previous work role extended to forging alliances with diverse organizations and governmental bodies to advocate for the expansion of these beneficial agricultural techniques. Employing meticulous monitoring, evaluation, and data-driven surveys, ensuring the successful execution and scalability of projects.

Bhavani Pinjarla

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Dr. Bhavani P is the Geospatial Analyst in the Sustainable Agrifood Systems program at CIMMYT. She obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad on the research topic “Spatio-temporal Assessment of Agricultural Performance and its Drought Vulnerability using Long-term Satellite and Climate Data”.

Dr. Bhavani P. provides solutions to farmers (at various scales – farmers to policy level) using remote sensing and geoprocessing. She acquired contemporary professional knowledge, climate data processing, machine learning techniques for image processing, R, and Google Earth Engine (GEE) with programming proficiency in JavaScript, and Python.

Sreejith Aravindakshan

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Dr. Aravindakshan is a Scientist in CIMMYT’s Sustainable Agrifood Systems program, specializing in adoption, scaling, and innovation systems.

He contributes to the TAFSSA initiative, focusing on scaling, extension, adoption, and monitoring of agrifood systems innovations. With a Ph.D. from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and MSc degrees from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and TU Dresden, Germany, he brings over two decades of interdisciplinary expertise in Innovation Systems and Natural Resource Economics. Dr. Aravindakshan has collaborated with governments, NGOs, and organizations like FAO, JICA, and WWF across South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, contributing to multi-country projects funded by the EU, USAID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Moreover, he has published high-impact journal articles aimed at guiding policy formulation in the global south.

 

Anurag Kumar

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Anurag Kumar is a senior research associate in CIMMYT under the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project in India.

He is involved in Coordinating trials and demonstrations of the rice-wheat cropping system in Bihar. Other than coordinating trials and demonstrations, he is effectively strengthening partnerships with national and private partners. The extension of proven technologies is the core of the project so synergizing the effort of each partner for better spread.

Deepak Kumar Singh

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Deepak is a consultant in the Sustainable Agrifood Systems program at CIMMYT. His area of expertise encompasses conservation agriculture, mechanization, precision agriculture, resource management and systems research.

Pankaj Koirala

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Pankaj Koirala has a PhD in Economics and currently contributes to CSISA Ukraine project within CIMMYT’s Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) program. He conducts research in agricultural systems, climate change, and sustainability, especially focusing on survey data and human/farmer’s behaviors, socioeconomic and institutional contexts. Currently, he engages in studies to understand the impacts of climatic variables on food and nutritional security, climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Koirala has published peer-reviewed scientific papers on Economic Policy and Analysis, sustainability, and others and served as a reviewer in various peer-reviewed journals.

A. G. Adeeth Cariappa

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Adeeth Cariappa is an Environmental and Resource Economist working on Carbon Credits from Agriculture. Before joining CIMMYT, Cariappa was working in the Agriculture & Allied Sectors Vertical of NITI Aayog (the premier thinktank for Government of India) and as a Consultant for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Cariappa has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the  ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute.

Mahesh Kumar Gathala

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Born into a farming family in Rajasthan, Mahesh Gathala obtained his BSc and MSc from Rajasthan Agricultural University and his PhD in Soil Science from Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUA&T), Udaipur.

Currently, he has been working since 2011 with CIMMYT’s Sustainable Intensification Program, as a Senior Systems Agronomist, presently based in Bangladesh. Dr Gathala has made strong contributions to strategic research, development and deployment of Conservation Agriculture (CA) based Sustainable Intensification, crop production and farming systems, small scale mechanization, innovations for youth and women micro-entrepreneurship and capacity building to several thousand farmers and partners. He is currently responsible for developing sustainable intensification through CA-based management solutions to address issues of resource degradation, soil health, abiotic stresses, and climate change in South Asia.

Michael Kariuki Ndegwa

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Michael Ndegwa is a Market and Value Chain Specialist at CIMMYT with experience in evaluating agricultural policies and technologies using cutting edge evaluation methodologies. As a scientist in the SAS program, he is currently working on strategies for enhancing the performance of seed systems in East Africa, with a particular focus on seed marketing innovations for achieving faster varietal turnover. He has also conducted research on innovative models for financing and derisking agricultural production for smallholders in Africa, evaluation of postharvest technologies such as hermetic bags and metal silos, evaluation of drought maize varieties, among other research agenda.

Lokesh Chaudhary

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Lokesh Chaudhary is an agronomist with expertise in seed physiology, crop modelling, precision agriculture and GIS GNSS. He is currently learning about drone piloting, data collection and processing.

At CIMMYT, Chaudhary works on resilient climate agriculture, under which technology transfer is done. Expertise in agronomy, seed and machinery is required and used extensively. He supports in the execution of farmers participatory and on-station demonstrations/research trials on climate-resilient agricultural practices, monitors day-to-day field activities (irrigation, fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide, etc.) and conducts data collection of the farmers participatory/research trials.

Gatien Falconnier

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Gatien Falconnier is a systems agronomist interested in the impact of sustainable agricultural intensification on food security and income, in the smallholder context of sub-Saharan Africa. His work combines on-farm and on-station experimentation, crop and farm modelling, to explore scenarios of change in farmers practices, with current and future climate.

Geoffrey Muricho

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Geoffrey Muricho works for CIMMYT as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist based in Nairobi. Before joining CIMMYT, he was a scientist (Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Specialist) at ICRISAT where he coordinated monitoring, learning and evaluation activities of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded projects (TL III, HOPE II and AVISA) in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Besides monitoring, learning and evaluation, Geoffrey is an experienced research economists with expertise in agricultural technology adoption and impact assessments using quantitative and qualitative methods. Previously, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) where he focused his research on technology adoption, gender analysis and impact assessments. Before joining ICIPE, he worked as a Research Associate with CIMMYT and ICRISAT. Geoffrey obtained his PhD (Economics) and MSc. (Agricultural Economics) from the University of Nairobi. He also holds BSc (Agr. Econ).

Maxwell Mkondiwa

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Maxwell Mkondiwa is a CIMMYT Associate Scientist – Spatial Economist based in New Delhi, India. He joined CIMMYT in January 2022.

His research focuses on ex-ante and ex-post spatial economic assessments of the adoption potential and impact of agricultural technologies. The general fields in which he conducts his research include spatial economics, economics of agricultural research, production economics, marketing economics (industrial organization), development economics, applied spatial Bayesian econometrics, and economic applications of mathematical optimization.

He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, an MSc in Applied Economics from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, an MSc in Research Methods from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, and a BSc in Agricultural Economics from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Bunda College Campus).