GT - Institutions, Markets, Policy & Impacts

Scientists


Name :

Ma. Cynthia S. Bantilan

Designation :

Global Theme Leader / Principal Scientist

Email :

c.bantilan@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Patancheru, India

Address :

GT-IMPI, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

Research Activities:

Strategic assessments; poverty dynamics; livelihood analysis; institutional innovations, agriculture-health linkages; impact assessment, social analysis; research priority setting

Bio summary:

Specialized in science policy, agricultural economics, statistics, impact assessment and poverty analysis.

 

 


Name :

Bekele Shiferaw

Designation :

Principal Scientist (Resource and Development Economics)

Email:

b.shiferaw@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Nairobi, Kenya

Address:

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), PO Box 39063, Nairobi, Kenya

Bio Summary:

Areas of interest in agricultural and resource economics include household behavior; bio-economic modeling; analysis of markets and institutions; and analysis of policies for food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable natural resource management.



Name :

Jupiter Ndjeunga

Designation :

Sr. Scientist (Economist)

Email :

n.jupiter@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Niamey/Western and Central Africa

Address:

International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) PO.Box 12404, Niamey, Niger (West Africa)

Research Activities:

Experimental economics; markets and institutions; assessing rural livelihood strategies and outcomes and formulating strategies to enhance rural income and reduce poverty



Name :

P Parthasarathy Rao

Designation :

Scientist and Project Coordinator

Email :

p.partha@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Patancheru, India

Address:

GT-IMPI, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

Bio Summary:

Specialized in agricultural marketing, consumer preference, commodity situation and outlook, crop-livestock interaction, crop competitiveness and district level database

 

 


Name :

K Purna Chandra Rao

Designation :

Principal Scientist (VLS)

Email :

k.p.c.rao@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Patancheru, India

Address:

GT-IMPI, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

Bio Summary:

Specialized in agricultural technology assessment, agri-business management, research prioritization and impact assessment, agricultural policy analysis, village-level studies, farm structure studies, economics of rural poor and poverty alleviation, watershed management studies, and economics of dryland farming

 

 


Name :

Isaac Minde

Designation :

Principal scientist (Economics) and Country Representative, ICRISAT-Bulawayo

Email :

i.minde@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Address:

Matopos Research Station, PO Box 776, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Research Activities:

Market-led development, agricultural policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation

Bio Summary:

Agricultural economics



Name :

Pius Chilonda

Designation :

Senior scientist

Email :

P.Chilonda@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Pretoria, South Africa

Address:

Private Bag X813, 0127 Silverton, Pretoria; South Africa

Research Activities:

Agricultural policy analysis

Bio Summary:

Agricultural economics

 



Name :

Kizito Mazvimavi

Designation :

Post-doctoral fellow

Email :

k.mazvimavi@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Address:

Matopos Research Station, PO Box 776, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Research Activities:

Monitoring and analysis of technology flows through humanitarian relief programs

Bio Summary:

Agricultural economics



Name :

Sabine Homann

Designation :

Post-doctoral scientist

Email :

s.homann@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Address:

International Crop Research Institute for theSemi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT) POBox 776, Bulawayo Zimbabwe

Research Activities:

Crop-livestock systems development

Bio Summary:

Agricultural economics



Name :

Janneke Verheijen

Designation :

Associate Professional Officer (Anthropology)

Email :

j.verheijen@cgiar.org

Work Location :

Malawi

Address:

Chitedze Agricultural Research Station, PO Box 1096, Lilongwe, Malawi

Area of Research:

Potential contributions of agricultural development to increasing resistance and resilience to HIV and AIDS among women smallholder farmers



Name :

Margret Loeffen

Designation :

Associate Professional Officer (APO)

Email :

m.loeffen@icrisatml.org

Work Location :

ICRISAT Bamako, Mali

Address:

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT), PO. Box 320, Bamako, Mali (West Africa)

Research Activities:

Assessing impact of natural resource management technologies in West Africa


Name :

Mbene Dieye Faye

Designation :

Agro economist, Special Project scientist

Email :

mbene@icrisatml.org

Work Location :

ICRISAT Bamako, Mali

Address:

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT), PO. Box 320, Bamako, Mali (West Africa)

Bio Summary: Specialized in agricultural marketing, market analysis, identification of opportunities for improved marketing of cereal and agro-forestry products from the Sahelian zones.


Name :

Menale Kassie

Designation :

Post-Doctoral Fellow (Agricultural Economics)

Email :

m.kassie@cgiar.org

Work Location :

ICRISAT-Nairobi

Bio Summary: Technology and rural institutions impact on household welfare, production risk impact on technology adoption and technology impact on production risk, program/intervention evaluation, applied micro-econometrics and mathematical programming