Dr Shalander Kumar is presently the Deputy Global Research Program Director of the Enabling systems transformation program and cluster leader of the Markets, Institutions and Policies cluster at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India. He is an Indian national and a FELLOW of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) and on the Executive Committee of the Global Food and Climate Systems Transformation Alliance led by MIT. Dr Kumar has doctoral degree in agricultural economics, Advance course on Development Oriented Research in Agriculture’ at ICRA, WAGENINGEN and more than 29 years of experience working in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Current focus of his work is on data-driven systems approaches for scaling climate-smart and nutrition sensitive agricultural value chains and food systems; tools and frameworks for co-designing resilient and sustainable farm and food systems; and policies relevant studies and advocacy around seed systems, agri-business opportunities, climate adaptation and mainstreaming millets.
Expertise in: Farm and food systems analysis, whole farm household modelling and tradeoff analysis, System dynamics modelling for value chain analysis, climate change impact on food security and nutrition, CSA investment planning, institutional innovations and business models for gender responsive sustainable intensification of farm and food systems, systems tools for assessment and tracking multi-dimensional sustainability of farming systems.