Kumar Shalander
Professionnal title : Professor
Deputy Global Research Program Director: Enabling Systems Transformation
Main affiliation : International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
shalander.kumar@icrisat.org 500075 Hyderabad
9989807521
Agri-food system Transformation for resilience, sustainability and human wellbeing
Presentation
Dr Shalander Kumar leads the Markets, Institutions, and Policies cluster and is Deputy Global Research Program Director of the Enabling Systems Transformation Program at ICRISAT, Hyderabad. Dr Kumar has over three decades 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 holistic solutions for resilient farm and food systems; and food and development policy analysis around transformation, seed systems, agri-business opportunities, climate adaptation and mainstreaming millets.What I can bring to this network ?
Systems analysis, multicriteria and bioeconomic modelling for evaluating and co-designing systemic solutions bundles for systems transformationWhat I seek in this network ?
• Global networking to strengthen knowledge on systems science• Collaborative efforts on mainstreaming system science for addressing the wicked challenges of smallholder agri-food systems