Devesh Roy, an Indian national, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. His areas of expertise include international trade, environment, firm-farm linkages, and food safety. He has recently been involved in research related to the economics of animal disease outbreaks. He also conducts research on issues relating to food safety in developing countries, particularly from the demand side, and is involved in a project on varietal choice pertaining to different staples in India and two African countries (Rwanda and Nigeria).
Devesh joined IFPRI as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2004 before becoming a Research Fellow. He later worked as a Senior Research Fellow with the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) from 2017 through 2021. His previous work focused on food security in South Asian countries as well as contract farming in high-value agriculture in India. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and a master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics.
Languages Spoken: English, Hindi
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- Assessing India’s food supply situation using a food balance sheet and COVID-19-sensitive markers (IFPRI-South Asia) • August 6, 2020
- Farmer Organizations and COVID-19 in ASEAN: Role, impact, and opportunities (IFPRI-South Asia) • July 27, 2020
- Learning from earlier crises: ASEAN countries’ trade responses during COVID-19 (IFPRI-South Asia) • June 29, 2020
- Improving India’s Public Distribution System: What can we learn from COVID-19? (IFPRI-South Asia) • June 15, 2020
- How agri-food chains in Sri Lanka fared during the stringent COVID-19 control measures? (IFPRI-South Asia) • May 13, 2020
- Farmer organizations with its business as usual may not be the magic solution to COVID-19 recovery (IFPRI-South Asia) • May 21, 2020