Nithya Gowdru Vishwanath, Postdoctoral Scientist – Agricultural Economics

Nithya Gowdru Vishwanath (India), Postdoctoral Scientist – Agricultural Economics and CIM Returning Expert, joined the Center on 18 July 2017 for a two-year term in the Hyderabad office. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Humboldt University in Berlin, where she wrote her dissertation on “Value Chain Analysis of Organic Fruits and Vegetables in India: Emphasis on smallholder farmer’s livelihood.” Nithya will be working within the BMZ-funded “Resist, Detect, Protect” project to characterize smallholder tomato and chili pepper systems in selected areas of Bangladesh and India and to identify suitable impact pathways for the project’s outputs (insect resistant varieties and insect pest management practices). She will also work on a mungbean adoption study for India and support the GIZ-funded Green Innovation project.

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