Kalyani Raghunathan

Research Fellow

Kalyani Raghunathan (she/her) is a Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit. An economist, Kalyani’s work lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, and nutrition in both South Asia and Africa. One stream of work examines the use of women’s collectives as platforms for the delivery of agriculture and nutrition interventions. Another deals with the development of metrics to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture, WASH, and related areas. The third stream evaluates economic and social constraints more specifically, and includes evaluations of digital agricultural extension and interventions aimed at enhancing value chain opportunities for youth, assessing the cost and affordability of healthy diets, and designing and testing interventions to improve household awareness of entitlements and women’s voice and agency in seeking benefits from social protection programs.