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    This paper reviews the key policies with regard to agriculture inputs such as seed, fertilizer, water, agricultural equipment, research, extension, and agricultural credit. It also provides an overview of the policies and programs related to ...
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    Aditi Singhal joined IFPRI on 1st November 2011 as a Senior Research Assistant. She is currently working on the project of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with focus to prioritize policies and investment interventions for higher productivity ...
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    Barun Deb Pal has joined as Research Analyst at IFPRI office at New Delhi in November 2011. Prior to this he worked at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) as Research Analyst from November 2006 to October 2011. His areas of ...
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    Deepa Sahrawat joined International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in September 2005, as an Administrative Associate. She previously served as personal assistant to the Head, Germplasm Conservation Division, National Bureau of Plant ...
  • Discussion Papers
    This paper attempts to project the future supply and demand up to the year 2025 for rice and wheat, the two main cereals cultivated and consumed in India. A review of studies that forecast the supply and demand of Indian agriculture commodities ...
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    Garima Taneja joined IFPRI on 2nd November 2011. She is working on the project titled “Prioritizing interventions for reducing the impact of climate change and increasing incomes of smallholders in Indo-Gangetic Plain”. She has completed her ...
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    Gaurav Tripathi joined IFPRI on September 5, 2011 as Research Analyst in project “Trade, Agricultural Policies and Structural Changes in India’s Agrifood System; Implications for National and Global Markets”. Prior to this, he worked in the field ...
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    Jyotsana Dua joined IFPRI-NDO on October 5, 2006 as a Senior Administrative Coordinator. She is responsible for the finance and human resource in IFPRI-NDO. She has completed her master’s in commerce and later did MBA in human resource from ...
  • IFPRI Briefs
    South Asia is home to the largest concentration of poor and undernourished people in the world, so food security—especially in basic staples such as wheat, rice, and corn—continues to be a major concern. With both persistent and re-emerging food ...
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    Dr. Pramod K. Joshi is the director for South Asia. Previous to this, he held the positions of the director of the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, India, and the director of the National Centre for Agricultural ...
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    Ruchi Narang joined IFPRI-NDO on the 1st of October, 2008 as Administrative Associate. She is presently working with Dr. Ashok Gulati, Director in Asia’s office and looking after the logistics and provides administrative support to Director’s ...
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    Sanjay Prasad joined IFPRI-New Delhi office in October, 2010 as a Research Analyst. He is working on Supply - Demand outlook of agricultural commodities, especially key cereal crops, in South-Asian countries. He has completed his M.Phil in ...
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    Shwetima Joshi joined IFPRI in November 2010 as a Research Analyst at the New Delhi office. Currently she is working on Agriculture Business Related Issues. She has completed B.A in Economics and M.B.A. Her area of interest is rural upliftment ...
  • Project Papers and Notes
    India’s central development strategy should be to systematize structural and sector-specific measures the government can implement immediately to promote nutrition security while not losing sight of the long-term changes needed to create a ...
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    Suman Chakrabarti joined IFPRI in September 2011. He is working on the Markets in Asia Program which is a collaboration between IFPRI and Michigan State University. His area of focus is Agriculture Value Chains. He has a B.A. Honors in Economics ...
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    Sunipa Das Gupta joined IFPRI-NDO in 2008. She is working on Agri-business in India on the value chain aspect. She has completed her M. Phil in Economics from Calcutta University.
  • Discussion Papers
    This paper attempts to estimate the future supply and demand for cereals in Nepal. While there has been considerable research in the past examining the agricultural sector in Nepal, to the best of our knowledge there has been no analysis of the ...
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    There has been a rapid transformation of food supply chains in India over the past two decades. Modern retail sales are growing at 49 percent per year and quickly penetrating urban food markets and even rural markets. The food-processing sector ...
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    Vaishali Dassani joined IFPRI- NDO office on August 4, 2008 as Communication and Coordination Specialist. She is working in the communication division to promote IFPRI and strengthen the relation with journalists. Also working on the various ...
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    Vishrant Singh joined IFPRI New Delhi on February 2012, as Administrative Associate and holds the responsibility of preparing and scrutinizing the financial statements and provisions under the tax system. He has completed Post Graduate in ...